alaska

Softcover. Fairbanks AK, Pristine Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. A powerful collection of field data backed up by 17 years of hunting experience. This book is a well-organized, extensive reference overflowing with impressive hunting techniques and insights to wildlife behavior which are essential to your success as a float hunter. Clean copy.

Softcover. Augusta GA, Morris Communications Company, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Retrospective exhibition monograph, showcasing the work of a prominent Alaskan artist.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 396 pages. This book won the 1986 Prix Medicis Etranger prize. The book is a full-blooded comic epic about the relationship between a daughter and her larger-than-life father in the wilds of Alaska. Light remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 406 pages with b&w illustrations and endpapers maps. No markings.

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Fleming H. Revell, 10th pr., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Black & white frontis photograph of Muir (repeated on dust jacket). 11 other plates plus map. Dust jacket worn, chipped (about half of spine missing).

Softcover. Seattle, Alaska Steamship Co., 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 X 9" panels, opens to a 8 X 9" brochure with 16 pages, stapled, color covers, 2-colors inside. Includes a map, sailing schedule for March to October, 1916. Previous owner has made notations along margins about his experiences re the steamship line.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2nd pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Terra-cotta cloth with gilt on spine. This book traces the history of Alaska from the explorations of Bering up to 1945. Beginning with a chapter on "The Land", the author devotes the next 11 of 19 chapters to the Russian period of Alaska's history. The remaining 7 concern the American period. The book covers Russian exploration and settlement along the shores of northwestern America, of the Russian -American company and its great general manager, Baranov. A whole chapter on the attempt of Russia to establish a monopoly of the north Pacific in the face of increasing encroachment by British and American traders. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Publishing, Reprint, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 426 pages, many B&W engravings. Front fly leaf loose, dark blue cloth with gilt design. Hardcover with no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with white lettering and decoration on front cover, 279 pages, b&w illustrations by the author.

Boston, N.Y. Graphic Society, BC Ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. 400 pages. Flap has price, (C) page with First Edition statement but actually Book Club edition. Edited by Mary Street Alinder & Andrea Gray Stillman. In his early years in Yosemite, Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. His correspondence, therefore, virtually provides the full record of his life. Through the years, wherever he went, from the Southwest to Maine to Alaska, he wrote literally thousands of letters and postcards. Among the family, friends, fellow photographers, environmentalists, and politicians with whom he corresponded rank such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, jimmy Carter, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Garry Trudeau, and Edward Weston. Including both sides of continuing dialogues with these people and others, this book revels the growth of the artist and the whole man, as well as the development of the art of photography through the voices of the masters. A companion volume to his best-selling autobiography, ANSEL ADAMS: LETTERS AND IMAGES is illustrated with over 100 of his photographs from monumental landscapes to family snapshots. This combination of images with the highlights of a lifetime of letter writing creates a compelling portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest artists and conservationists and one of the most personable and memorable of men.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this vast terrain, James Kornwolf conjures the outlines of the constructed environment as it emerged in settlements and communities, in structures and sites, and in the flourishes and idiosyncrasies of the families and individuals who erected and inhabited colonial buildings and towns. Here as never before readers can observe the impulses and principles of colonial design and planning as they are implemented in the buildings and streets, harbors and squares, gardens and landscapes of the New World. Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's massive work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities-their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes-as they extended their hold on the land. His work conveys for the first time the full scale, from intimate to grand, of their enduring transformation of the natural landscape of North America. NOTE: DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1904, it chronicles a hunting trip to several locations in Alaska, including sheep, bears, moose and more. Captain Radclyffe was an English gentleman-hunter who visited Alaska in 1903. He bagged Dall sheep on the Kenai Peninsula, back then a relatively new destination for sport hunting. He shot excellent brown bear and moose, one a 57-incher on Kussiloff Lake on the Alaska Peninsula. On his final bear hunt, a sow charged him and his native guide abandoned him. He was arrested for game law violations that prematurely ended his hunt for sheep, adding another interesting dimension to this well-written story. The charges against Radclyffe were later dismissed since he had an off-season permit to collect for the British Museum, but the authors partner was not so lucky. Radclyffe writes of how the judge enjoyed rubbing the dismissal into the face of the arresting marshal, and he paints a vivid picture of the interactions of the hunters, guides, and authorities. After all his troubles, he lost most of his trophies because of shipping problems related to the Russo-Japanese War. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in red and gilt, 320 pages. Frontispiece, b&w plates and illustrations. Folding map. Spine sunned, light wear to extremities, previous owner's name, inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Traverse City MI, Countrysport Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 309 pages, b&w illustrations by Glenn Wolff. Decorated brown bonded leather. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. A collection of 23 essays, written by Sports Afield editor McIntyre, explore the spell the wild casts over all who go afield with rod or gun. Subjects range from woodcock in Ireland to Dall's sheep in Alaska to Cape buffalo in Africa, from chukars in Idaho to pronghorns in Wyoming to muskox in the Northern Territories. Includes one chapter on fishing for king salmon in British Columbia. Clean.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 520 pages. Over 30 trips-traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold and in sometimes dangerous conditions-Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in breathtaking beauty. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams, Salgado brings black-and-white photography to a new dimension; the tonal variations in his works, the contrasts of light and dark, recall the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Georges de La Tour. What does one discover in GENESIS? The animal species and volcanoes of the Galapagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the Antarctic and South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; African lions, leopards, and elephants; the isolated Zo'e tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua; nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa and the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro and Jurua rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska... and beyond. Having dedicated so much time, energy, and passion to the making of this work, Salgado calls GENESIS "my love letter to the planet."Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Slight edge wear, otherwise clean, tight copy. Many photos of old saloons, both interior and exterior shots. From Alaska, Arizona, California, Minnesota, Texas, and all over the country.

Softcover. North Slope Borough, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of an Inupiat village on Alaska's North Slope and how the people live off their surroundings. Whaling, caribou hunting, fox trapping, seal and walrus hunting and other methods of subsistence are covered. Maps, b&w photos. Crease to rear cover, clean copy.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Turner Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 205 pages. Author Dermot Cole takes the reader on a journey through Alaska's pristine natural beauty and documents moments from the 1898 gold rush to the only World War II invasion on North American soil, to the long-awaited statehood and the incredible destruction wrought by the massive 1964 earthquake. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A unique record of a sportsman's year among the northern most tribe. A rousing account of hunting bears, walrus, narwhals, and more in the Polar region of Alaska.. (C) 1910, b&w photos by author. Light stain to bottom front cover, otherwise VG.

Hardcover. New York, Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., Reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. limited edition (#10 of 750 copies). A diary of the late Emil Teichmann, edited and with an introduction by his son Oskar. Foreword by Ernest Gruening. Illustrated with b/w drawings and maps. Frontis portrait of author. Top edge stained blue. Blue cloth with gilt pictorial front and gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to top and bottom of spine.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. With b/w illustrations and a color jacket by John Schoenherr. A juvenile novel set in the Alaskan Arctic, about an Eskimo girl surviving in a wolf pack. Winner of the Newbery Medal. The first English printing.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.The Klondike Quest brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned. "One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike. One hundred thousand actually set off. And so the Klondike saga is a chronicle of humanity in the mass.... For the next eighteen months, the Yukon interior plateau became a human anthill."

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. The most photographed event in America during the 19th century. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.

Hardcover. Paterson, NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press , 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 114 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Anthony McGrath. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, spine with hole.