Search Results: Alaska/Yukon from Harry E Bagley Books Ltd

Montreal: Canadian National RR;, 1928. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. 24 pp., numerous b/w illustrations, full color center-spread illustration by Canadian artist, Charles W. Simpson, map end-papers, 8 pp on Klondike Gold Rush, info on C N steamships making the inside passage run -Vancouver-Alaska. light soil to wraps, Size: 4 to.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1960. Book. Illus. by Decorations by Sylvia Green Johnson. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8 vo,. blue, dec. cloth, cover & spine, 281 pages illustrations, signed in ink on title "Kathryn Winslow Hinsdale, Illinois, 1960" ex library with private bookplate of Lord Beaverbrook, (Max Aiken) light wear at edges,.

Paterson, NJ: St. Anthony Guild Press,, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. gilt green cloth, pp., xi, 292,illustrated, port. frontis., b & w illuatrations in text, index, light edge wear , d.j. has edge chips and tears with some losses at spine ends, corners.Archibishop Seghers was assinated in a small Alaskan village possibly by those who opposed his efforts to convert and protect the Alaskan Indians Size: 8 Vo.,.

Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization., 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, dust jacket, xliii, 859 pages : illustrations, map, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket, This diary kept by Diamond Jenness (1888-1969), the ethnologist with the Southern Party of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918, covers the author's travels and work in northern Alaska, the Coronation Gulf area, Victoria Island and Bernard Harbour, with numerous photographs taken by the author and much previously unpublished material on Copper Eskimo life. Includes sketches and maps by the author, with lists of people met during the expedition, Eskimo words used in the diary, items traded, collections (birds, insects, mammals, plants, mosses, shells), singers of the songs recorded in the Coppermine area, photographs and correspondence. The basic text has been expanded with notes from other unpublished sources, together with biographical material on the various… Read More

New York: Random House, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 Vo.,. cloth, dust jacket, 173 pages, illustrations, ex private library, (Mary Grannon, creator of Maggie Muggins with her bookplate) d.j. is price-clipped, light edge wear to d.j. A sound copy. "Alaska! Even today, the mere sound of the name touches off heady dreams of romance and adventure. But imagine what it was like in the early days of the Klondike gold rush, just before the turn of the century. Imagine what it was like for a woman. It was the last frontier of the American dream--the dream of discovery and pioneering and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow--or just over the next snow-covered hill...".

Seattle: Peacock Publishing Company, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. green, gilt dec cloth, cover and spine, pp., xvi, 247, illustrated, frontis.port., + 13 ful page b & w plates from photographs, corners lightly bumped, small mark at mid front cover, light edge wear, 8 lines in pencil on front free endpaper, An insiders story of one of the great feats of construction associated with the Klondike Gold Rush, the building of the White Pass &Yukon Railway, with many splashes of local color and characters like Soapy Smith and Stikine Bill. Not a common title. Size: 8 Vo.,.

NY: Hastings House Pub., 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, pp., xi, 305, illustrated, 8 full page plates from photographs, index, light edge wear, dust jacket has edge chips and small tears and is lightly sunned Size: 8 Vo.,.

Washington: War and Navy Departments, 1943. Book. Illus. by Frank Brannoff & Pvt.Ruge,. Very Good. Paperbound. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. two color, pict paper wraps, 52 pages, illustrated, illustrated, title page vignette, two full page cartoon illustrations,wraps lightly soiled, Dashiell Hammett, who was stationed in Alaska and who contributed to another publication of a similar nature, may have had a hand in this???? Has two verses from Robert Service's Spell of the Yukon printed on inside rear wrap. Size: 12mo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, dust jacket, xiii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps, CONTENTS: The paradox of overseas colonialism for a continental empire,pt. 1. Building a colonial system,From Siberia's frontier to Russia's colony,Contractor of empire,Indigenous labor and colonial insecurities,pt. 2. Making Natives Russian,Colonial trade and co-optation in a Russian key,Dependence, family, and Russianization Building a colonial diocese,Conclusion: The meaning of 1867. This book, examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. .

Portland , Oregon,: Metropolitan Press,, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition,. cloth, pp., 359, illustrated, port. frontis., balck & white plates from photographs, index, shelf wear to d.j. Size: 8 Vo.,.

Victoria, B.C: Sono Nis Pr, 1980. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2 nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pict. paper covers, 237 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits. This collection of stories and yarns gives a history of the district up to World War II, including an explanation of the district's name, and the discovery of gold in the 1860s. 1980..

Victoria,: Sono Nis Press,, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, pp; 280, map frontis., full page maps, 3 pp bibliography, index, Size: 8 Vo.,.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. black cloth, gilt spine, pp., xii, 394, illustrated, 46 full page plates, 7 maps, 6 pp bibliography, index, pict. endpapers.The spine of the d.j. has a closed cut which has been repaired from the inside with acid- free tape . The adventure of the Yukon/White Pass railroad and the romance of the Yukon Gold Rush come together in this epic account of the White Pass. Size: 8 Vo.,.

Ottawa,: Department of the Interior, 1930. Book. Illus. by Frontispiece By A.E. Elies. Very Good. Paperbound. Second Edition,. 8vo,.. pict. colored paper wraps, 48 pages, illustrated, frontis., illustrated throughout with half tones from photographs, minor edge tears, light soil to wraps, ARCTIC BIBLIO 2752 Size: 8 Vo.,.