New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1932 The Macmillan Company, New York. 1932. Hardcover. First Edition (Copyright 1932, stated Published July 1932 as first printing) Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on front pastedown dated 1932. Book Condition: Good; slightly sunfaded spine; light wear to board bottoms and tail from shelving. DJ: Fair; NOT price clipped; sunfaded spine cover; chipping and missing small pieces along top rear edge and spine cover top. Green cloth boards with bright gilt lettering and banding on spine and title in gilt on front board. Tinted textblock top. Fold-out map in place. 336 pp 8vo. The author, a Czech by birth, decided to seek his fortune in the Far North, traveled by wagon across the wilds of Siberia, then on a whaling ship up to the Arctic Circle. He tells of his journey, and of how he became a successful trader, with his HQ in a commodious cave on the rocky coast of New Siberia, and island in the Arctic Ocean where he lived for over thirty years. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004855
Title: Thirty Years in the Golden North
Author: Jan Welzl
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1932
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: Arctic Ocean, Arctic circle, Fur Trader, Eskimos, Far North, New Siberia, explorer, arctic explorer, Siberia
Bookseller catalogs: Autobiography;

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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