Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. Photo reproductions - b&w. First Edition. Full cloth. Tall 8vo. Pp. 169 followed by 127 plates of photo reproductions. Large folding map bound in at rear in Fine condition. Full pebble-grain red cloth. Spine a bit faded, with a couple stain spots smaller than.....
[1930s]. Matted framed photograph. Black & white platinum photo print in 4 x 6 inch light green matte behind glass, 10 x 11.5 inch wood frame. The Princess Fleet were the coastal passenger liners of the Canadian Pacific Railway which also ran the ocean-going Empress Fleet. The Charlotte was commissioned.....
(Anchorage): Matanuska Valley Chamber of Commerce, (1959). First Edition. Saddle-stapled wrappers. 4to. Pp. 12. Illustrations and black-and-white photo reproductions throughout. Map. Contains an article on the first state fair in Palmer, Alaska. Textured printed wraps, saddle-stapled. In bright, fresh condition except for staples a tad oxidized. Includes ads for several.....
Kenai: Kenai Central High School, (1976). First Edition. Plastic Comb with Stiff Wrappers. 4to. Pp. [3], 203. Illustrated with black-and-white photo reproductions. Color maps. In stiff printed wraps with blue plastic comb binding. Slight scuff to top right of front cover where a price decal was removed, otherwise a clean.....
(Seattle): Alaska Steamship Company, ND. First Edition. Paperback. Roughly 8vo in area, but round, die-cut in the shape of a globe. Pp. 11 followed by 13 unpaginated lined pages for the passenger to fill in with notes on the voyage. Illustrated with many b&w images of Alaska landscapes and seascapes.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1916. First Edition. Sewn printed wraps. 64th Congress 1st Session. One bound volume with accompanying slipcase portfolio with maps. Tall 8vo. Text volume: 218pp. amply filled with b&w photos, tables and two folding maps. Bound in full dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover.....
Saanichton, BC and Seattle: Hancock House Publishers, 1977. Alexandra. First Edition. Stiff printed wraps. 8vo. Pp. 49, [7]. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and sketches. With a glossary of Eskimo terms and their English translations. Bound in stiff, glossy wraps, saddle-stapled. Very slight age-toning to front cover. Inscribed by the.....
Seattle: Scribe Publishing Corporation, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Folio. Volume I published 1975; Volume II published 1976. Pp. 151; 151, respectively. Heavily illustrated throughout with b&w and color illustrations, including maps, plans, historical photos and, of course, many photos of the construction itself. Up to construction, the largest.....
Anchorage: Alaska Native Foundation, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pp. xi, 348. References, index. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos, maps (some in three colors) and figures. Red cloth, titles printed in brown and yellow. Folded three-color map in pouch on back endpaper. Light foxing to edges. Congressional.....
[Milwaukee]: [Self-Published], 1972. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. 4to. Pp. 112. Filled with correspondence, poems and reminiscences. Bound in stiff printed wrappers, side-stapled. Laid in is an unsigned letter referencing the author's teaching position in Seldovia, Alaska, on Cook Inlet, and a luncheon involving Floyd Starr and his effort with wayward.....
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1890. B&W photo reproductions; maps. Second Edition. Decorated cloth. Large 8vo. Pp. VII; 148. Illustrated with 30 plates, mostly b&w photo reproductions. Eight maps. Tipped in on the first preface page is a manifest for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company S. S. "Queen" departing Tacoma.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. xxi (2) 355. Frontis. 2 pp. color map. With three additional maps, also color. Index, followed by 4 pp. of ads for publisher's guide books. Bound in red pebble-grain cloth with gilt lettering stamped on cover; gilt lettering.....
New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd., 1960. Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xxxviii, 775. Bibliography, index. Illustrated with black line maps in the text and one fold-out map tipped in. Introduction by Ernest Gruening. Brick red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on black label on the spine, top edge.....
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1935. Reprints of b&w photos by Asahel Curtis and Webster and Webster, both established Seattle-based photographers. First Thus. Hardcover. Small, thick 8vo. Pp. 349. Illustrated with Asahel Curtis and Webster and Webster b&w photo reproductions. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine.....
London: Colburn & Bentley, 1831. First Edition. Framed under glass. Exposed chart measures 13" x 17 3/4". Hand-colored chart detailing part of the Bering (Beering) Strait and Kotzebue Sound. Expertly framed and matted. Old folds and a slight wrinkle, now flattened, off Point Hope, else Fine. Chart excised from BEECHEY.....
[Anchorage]: Cook Inlet Native Association, 1975. First Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wraps Comb Bound. 4to (8-1/2 x 11 inches.) Pp. iv, 173, [19]. Illustrated with maps, charts, diagrams and black & white photo reproductions. Bibliography, index. Laid in single sheet of errata. Black plastic comb bound, stiff coated paper covers with.....
Seattle: The Marine Digest Publishing Co., Inc., 1952. First Edition. 8vo. (6 1/2" x 9 1/2"). 356pp. Appendix. Illustrated with b&w drawings of old ships of sail and steam. Thirty pages of b&w photo reproductions in rear. Index. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office / (US Treasury), 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Pp. 325. Green pebble-grain cloth, blindstamped, with gilt spine lettering. Amply illustrated throughout with b&w photo reproductions. A few pages were evidently attached to each other with slight dampening, with insignificant abrasion to those pages, not.....
Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 200. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographic reproductions and maps. An as-new copy, which remains sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. White Pass and Yukon, the Alaska Railroad, the Copper River and Northwestern, the Seward Peninsula, Klondike Mines Railway, Atlin Southern and the.....
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. ix, 294. Laden with black-and-white photography and other reproductions. Index. All edges gilt. Bound in brown cloth with simulated leather grain, color illustration mounted on front board. Gilt lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Although the cover is.....
Caldwell (Idaho): The Caxton Printers, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Pp. 299. Frontis. map. Illustrated with many b&w photos. The appendix is a history of Yukon River steamboats. Bound in blue cloth with lettering and rules stamped on front cover and spine. Slight offsetting to opposing pp. 96 -.....
Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. Large, thick 8vo. Pp. 402. Thoroughly illustrated with the author's b&w photos. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with stylized gilt lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Slight dust soiling to top edge, former owner's name in pencil on ffep.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover in Original Publisher's Cloth. Stout 4to. Pp. 696. Edited under the direction of Hon. G. M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy. Two engraved frontispieces, depicting the U.S.S. Polaris and Captain Hall. Two full-plate color lithographs of the Polaris and 38 wood.....
[Juneau]: (Miner Publishing Company), (1979). First Edition. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Laden with reprints of historic black-and-white photography. Bound in photo-illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated (1979) by the author on the title page. Includes a list of Juneau and Douglas pioneers known by the author, and those he.....
Juneau, Alaska: Gastineau Channel Centennial Association, 1980. Dale De Armond (cover woodcut). Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 13-214. Illustrated with a few photo portraits. Folding map. The last 80-or-so pages provide biographical information on figures associated with the history of Juneau. With a note on sources. Index. Bound in brick red.....