Along Alaska's Great River
by Frederick Schwatka (1849-1892)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Juneau, Alaska, United States
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About This Item
Stitch binding is remarkably tight. Gilt-edge pages. Pages complete, with no foxing or age discoloration. Illustrations: 78 clear, some page-sized. Map fold-out: 1 in color. Lt. Schwatka and his team navigated the Yukon River in 1883, wrote an extensive military report, and enhanced the work in an 1885 first edition. With the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897, the book was hurriedly reprinted "Together with the Latest Information on the Klondike Country." Contains first owner's name and date of July 29, 1899. This volume appears to have been a deluxe edition by way of fancily embossed cover, gilt-edged pages, high-quality paper, and marbled fly pages. Reprints are available but hardly could equal the quality and clarity of the print and all of the many illustrations. This book was carefully used for years in research work and now hopes for a new good home.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Klondike Research (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17
- Title
- Along Alaska's Great River
- Author
- Frederick Schwatka (1849-1892)
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Embossed leather boards reattached, edge-and-shelf worn, repaired partial leather spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Deluxe 1898
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1898
- Pages
- 426
- Size
- 6½X8½X1⅞
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Alaska, Yukon Territory, history, Klondike Gold Rush, Native Americans
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Klondike Research
Biblio member since 2010
Juneau, Alaska
About Klondike Research
Klondike Research was founded in 1991 to support scholarship on Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, particularly that period known as the great Klondike Gold Rush.
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