Results for: Alaska and Polar Regions
Wraps. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, (1968). Illus. with photos. 16 p . Very good.
Price: $5.00
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Washington: United States States Coast Guard, Treasury Department, 1920. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. 37 p . Bulletin No. 7. Very good.
Price: $30.00
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Washington: United States States Coast Guard, Treasury Department, 1920. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. 22 p. + folding map . Bulletin No. 8. Very good.
Price: $30.00
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Ketchikan, Alaska: United States Indian Museum, n.d. 8 1/2 x 11 in. Stapled mimeographed sheets, with printed cover. Unpaginated . Some foxing on cover, front cover beginning to pull away at staples; else very good.
Price: $45.00
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(ARLUK, George)
San Francisco: Images of the North, 1979. Illus. with photos. Oblong 24mo. 31 p . Very good.
Price: $18.00
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(OSUITOK, Aipellie)
New York: Theo Waddington, 1980. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Wraps. [16] p . Fine.
Price: $25.00
Exhibition catalogue
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BALL, John
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1966). Illus. by George Wilson. 8vo. Cloth. 147 p . 1st ed. Inscription on endpaper, light wear at spine, minor wear at top of spine; else fine in near fine d.w. with tiny chips at top of spine.
Price: $15.00
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BENJAMIN, Philip
New York: Random House, (1964). 247 p . 1st ed. Ink inscription on front endpaper; else very good in lightly worn d.w.
Price: $10.00
Humorous novel involving a newspaper reporter and a photographer who cover the International Geophysical Year at the South Pole.
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BERRY, William D
New York: Macmillan, 1965. B/w & color illus. by the author. Small 4to. Orange cloth, stamped in black. Unpaginated . First Edition. Pencilled name on front paste-down; else FINE in Very Good d/j, which is very lightly worn at extremities, has a 1/2" tear at top of frontpanel & is slightly sunned.
Price: $22.50
The author/artist, who lives outside Mount McKinley National Park, near Deneki, is famous for his wildlife art and has done much work for the Audubon Society. Describes the first year of a young moose's life
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BOND, James H
Portland: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, (1948). Foreword by J. Hammond Brown. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Cloth. x, 220 p . 1st ed. INSCRIBED & SIGNED. Very good in moderately worn, price clipped d.w. with a few short, internally mended edge tears.
Price: $17.50
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BROWN Emily Ivanoff ("Ticasuk")
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, (1995). Illus. with b/w drawings by Eugene C. and Mary Lou Totten. Wraps. 134 p . 3rd printing. Limited to 1000 copies. Fine.
Price: $7.50
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BYRD, Richard E., Rear Admiray, U.S.N., Ret
New York: Putnam's, 1930. With 74 illus. & maps. xvi, 422 p . 4th printing. Very good.
Price: $12.50
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CHAPMAN, Robert M. and Robert L. Foster
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Wraps. 25 p. + folding map in pocket inside rear cover . Geological Survey Professional Paper 625-D. About fine.
Price: $7.50
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COE, Douglas
New York: Julian Messner, (1943). Illus. by Winfield Scott Hoskins. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in black. 175 p . 1st ed. Fine in near fine, price clipped d.w.
Price: $17.50
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CONN, Stephen
No place: Self-published, (1979). Illus. by Bradley S. Stockwell. Wraps. 151 p . 1st ed. SIGNED by author and illustrator on preliminary page. Additionally INSCRIBED & SIGNED by both on the title page. Stockwell has also drawn penguins on both pages.
Price: $10.00
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CORPS OF ENGINEERS,
No place. No date. Ca. 1950. Foreword by Colonel L.E. Seeman, CE District Engineer. Wraps. 36 p . Some light darkening; else near fine.
Price: $15.00
Many full-page photos
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DIXON, Joseph S
Wraps. Washington: United States Government Printing Office,. X11, 236 p . Fauna Series No. 3, 1938. Some chipping at top and bottom of spine; else v.g.
Price: $15.00
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DUFRESNE, Frank
Portland: Binfords & Mort, (1955). Illus. by Bob Hines. xi, 297 p . 2nd ed. About fine.
Price: $16.50
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DUFRESNE, Frank
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1965). Drawings by Rachel S. Horne. 252 p . 1st ed. Fine in near fine d.w.
Price: $10.00
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DUFRESNE, Frank
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1965). Drawings by Rachel S. Horne. 252 p . Name on endpaper; else fine in near fine d.w.
Price: $8.50
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ECKEL, Edwin B
Wraps. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, (1971). Illus. with line drawings. 57 p . 2nd pr. date in ink on cover; else v.g.
Price: $12.50
Geological Survey Professional Paper 546
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EDWARDS, Jim
No place: Self-published, 1974. Illus. with drawings. Small 4to. Wraps, spiralbound. 20 p . Very good.
Price: $7.50
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FEJES, Claire
New York: Pantheon, 1969.. Color illus.. 4to. Pictorial cloth publisher's Gibraltar library binding . First Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED. Fine.
Price: $27.50
When the sun comes out and the winter darkness ends...the Eskimos of Tigara know it is time to hunt the great whale
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FINNEY, Gertrude E
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1966. Illus. by Carl Kidwell. 8vo. Cloth. 181 p . 1st ed. A few spots on spine; else fine in near fine, price clipped d.w.
Price: $15.00
Juvenile novel about the Aleuts of Alaska
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FITZGERALD, Gerald
Wraps. Washington: U.S, Government Printing Office, 1944. 219-243, iv p. + folding map in pocket inside rear cover . Geological Survey Bulletin 933-D. About fine.
Price: $12.50
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FREUCHEN, Peter
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., (1955). Trans. from the Danish. 242 p . 3rd pr. Moderately worn d.w.; else v.g.
Price: $10.00
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FREUCHEN, Peter
New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Co, Inc., (1946). 275 p . 1st ed. Very good.
Price: $12.50
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GRENFELL, Wilfrid Thomason, M.D
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. With a biographic sketch by Clarence John Blake. Illus. with photos by Dr. Grenfell & others. 12mo. Pictorial cloth. xxv, 68 p . 1st ed. A bit of wear at edges; else fine.
Price: $25.00
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GRIFFINS, John C
London: Pall Mall Press, (1969). 226 p . 1st ed. Fine in near fine d.w.
Price: $12.50
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GRIGGS, Robert F Vol. XL, No. 3 (September, (1921). 1" tear at bottom spine, some cover soil; else good.
Price: $15.00
Illus. with photos & maps
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HELMERICKS, Bud
Boston: Little, Brown, (1955). Illus. by Henry Bugbee Kane. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. 142 p . 1st ed. Cover lightly faded; else about fine in moderately worn d.w.
Price: $22.50
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HENRY, David and Kay Henry
Fairbanks: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc., 1969. 8vo. Wraps. 43 p . Very good.
Price: $15.00
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HINCKLEY, Ted C
No place: The Journal of American History, 1966. 8vo. Wraps. 742-756 p . Very good.
Price: $15.00
Offprint
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HOUSTON, James
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Blue boards stamped in black. Unpaginated . 1st U.S. ed. Discoloration from 1" sticker front free endpaper, very lightly worn at extremities; else near Fine in Very Good d/j, faded at spine with very light wear at extremities.
Price: $20.00
Houston (1921 - 2005) tells a dramatic story in which the "wisdom of old age and the strength of youth are allied in mortal combat against elemental fores of nature"
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HOUSTON, James
New York: Atheneum, 1982. B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. 170 p . 1st U.S. ed. SIGNED by the author. FINE in FINE d/j.
Price: $35.00
Arctic search for gold leads to Prince Charles Island, west of Baffin Island, and the discovery of the "Black Diamonds" of an oil deposit
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HOUSTON, James
New York: Atheneum, 1982. B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. 170 p . 1st U.S. ed. FINE in FINE d/j.
Price: $22.50
Arctic search for gold leads to Prince Charles Island, west of Baffin Island, and the discovery of the "Black Diamonds" of an oil deposit
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HOUSTON, James
New York: McElderry Books, 1982.. B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Red cloth backed boards, stamped in silver. 150 p . 1st U.S. ed. FINE in FINE d/j.
Price: $22.50
Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture
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HOUSTON, James
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Tan cloth, stamped in dark blue. 142 p . 1st ed. Fine in fine, price clipped d/j.
Price: $15.00
Winner of the 1980 Canadian Book of the Year for Children. "James Houston knows the Northern Naskapi Indians and Eskimos well, having lived with them duing a period of ten years on the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay. River Runners is the story of a boy's wild and dangerous winter with the Naskapis at a fur trading post. Based on true events that occurred in the early 1950s."
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HOUSTON, James
New York: Atheneum, 1979. B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Tan cloth, stamped in dark blue. 142 p . 1st ed. Fine in price clipped d/j; else Fine.
Price: $15.00
Winner 1980 Canadian Book of the Year for Children."James Houston knows the Northern Naskapi Indians and Eskimos well, having lived with them duing a period of ten years on the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay. River Runners is the story of a boy's wild and dangerous winter with the Naskapis at a fur trading post. Based on true events that occurred in the early 1950s."
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HOUSTON, James
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1986). B/w Illus. by the author. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. 96 p . 1st ed. Fine in Fine d/j.
Price: $15.00
The coastal Inuit people are starving after the summer run of fish fails and the caribou herds do not return. Are the inland indians to blame? Facing starvation, young Kungo sets out with the falcon bow and discovers the truth of the caribou's disappearance, but can he prevent a bloody freud? Houston lived with the Inuit and Indian people in the Arctic for twelve years
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ILLINGWORTH, Frank
New York: Coward-McCann, (1951). Illus. by R. M. Powers. 8vo. Cloth. 245 p . 1st ed. Lower corners bumped; else about fine in d.w. with minor edge wear & chipping and one small piece missing along front fold.
Price: $17.50
Novel of Eskimo life in the Arctic
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INGERSOLL, Ernest, ed
New York: National Assoc. of Audubon Societies, 1914. Illus. with Seven Plates in colors, etc. 72 p . Name front endpaper, rubbing at top of spine; else very good.
Price: $30.00
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JOERG, W. L. G
New York: American Geographical Society, 1930. Illus. with maps. Wraps. 70 p. + folding map (separating at one fold) . Two small school library stamps; else very good.
Price: $20.00
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JONES, Laura Buchan
Fairbanks, Alaska: Soroptimist Club of Fairbanks, (1959). Illus. by Russell Ahsoak. Wraps. 19 p . SIGNED. About fine.
Price: $15.00
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KENT, Rockwell
Los Angeles: The Wilderness Press, (1970). Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal. Illus. by the author. Small 4to. Cloth, with paper label on front cover. xxi, 204 p . Revised edition. One of 1550 SIGNED & numbered copies. Fine in slip case.
Price: $100.00
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KNAPPEN, Russell S
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929. Wraps. ii, 161-227 p. + map in pocket . Bulletin 797-F, Mineral Resources of Alaska, 1926-F. Spine strengthened with clear tape; else very good.
Price: $12.50
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KNOPF, Adolf
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912. Illus. with maps. Wraps. 32 p . Bulletin 504. 1" tear at bottom of spine; else very good.
Price: $18.00
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LUNG, Edward B., as told to Ella Lung Martinsen
New York: Vantage Press, (1954). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Cloth. 419 p . 1st ed. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Martinsen. Small snag at fore edge of front cover; else very good.
Price: $15.00
Memoirs of the Klondike gold rush
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MACHETANZ, Frederick
New York: Scribner's, (1963). Illus. with b/w drawings by the author. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. 105 p . A couple of small spots on rear cover; else very good.
Price: $15.00
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MACHETANZ, Sara
New York: Sloane, (1961). Illus. with photos by Fred Machetanz. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. xiv, 204 p . 3rd printing. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Sara Machetanz. Also SIGNED by Fred Machetanz. About fine in lightly worn d.w. which has been mended at top of spine.
Price: $25.00
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