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Alaskana and Polar Regions

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	BOLOTIN, NORM; PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLARENCE AND CLARKE KINSEY. Klondike Lost: A Decade of Photographs by Kinsey and Kinsey. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Northwest 1980. Oversize paperback about 8.25 inches tall by 11 wide 127 pages. Description: Lavishly illustrated with b&w photographs taken by brothers Clarence and Clarke Kinsey. This pictorial chronicle of the gold rush era was compiled over the span of a decade by this pair of young Grand Forks photographers. Norm Bolotin spent almost two years re-creating the town of Grand Forks -- its miners, storekeepers, prostitutes and children; the hotels and the bars; the cabins and the churches, and the gold mining that brought them all together. He utilized the Kinseys' photos; various research facilities and the recollections of the few people still living who had been in Grand Forks. BINDING/CONDITION: an oversize paperback; the front cover is creased, the half-title page has two vertical creases, otherwise Good condition. ISBN: 0-88240-130-0 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 056581 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	BROOKS, ALFRED HULSE. Blazing Alaska's Trails; 2nd Edition. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press 1973. 2nd Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 567 pages. Bibliography. map endpapers. Description: This was originally published in 1953. Includes several b&w illustrations; fold-out geologic table. Preface by Burton L Fryxell. From 1903 until his death in 1924, Dr Alfred H Brooks was in charge of the Alaskan activities of the United States Geological Survey. BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with gilt portrait on the front cover, gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to the spine ends, the hinges are sound, the text edges are clean, the cloth is clean with good color; no markings. ISBN: 0-912006-01-3 USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 \| £UK 10.75 \| JP¥ 1545] Book number: 054989 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HULLEY, CLARENCE C. Alaska, 1741-1953. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort 1953. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.75 inches tall) 406 pages. Index. map endpapers. Description: Includes many b&w plates. A narrative history of Alaska from the time of white man's first arrival. This was later revised and republished as Alaska, Past and Present. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with red text and small totem; a few owner's notes in ink, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Fair dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006ATDJ8 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 054525 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	JOHNSON, JAMES ALBERT. Carmack of the Klondike. Seattle / Victoria, British Columbia: Epicenter Press / Horsdal & Schubart 1990. Trade size paperback 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 166 pages. Notes, index. Description: Includes several b&w illustrations (maps, historic photographs and a few drawings). George Carmack was originally credited with the discovery of gold that set off the Klondike Gold Rush. This book gives the story of Carmack's wanderings and prospecting in Alaska and the Yukon, his life with his Indian wife, and his later years. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Good condition. ISBN: 0-920663-10-9 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 750] Book number: 056149 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	ROSCOE, FRED; EDITED BY STANLEY N ROSCOE. From Humboldt to Kodiak, 1886-1895: Recollections of a Frontier Childhood and the Founding of the First American School and the Baptist Mission at Kodiak, Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska: Limestone Press 1992. 1st Edition. Trade size paperback 8vo (9 inches tall) 211 pages. Index. Description: Includes a map and a very few historic photos. Fred Roscoe was born in Humboldt County, California in 1885 and died there of cancer in 1959. During his illness he began to write his autobiography. He lived to record the first ten years, mostly in Kodiak and nearby Wood Island, Alaska, between 1886 and 1895. His parents, Ida and Earnest, were the first American school teachers in Kodiak, less than 20 years after Alaska's purchase from Russia. Number 40 in the publisher's Alaska History series. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Very Good condition. ISBN: 0-919642-40-3 USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 055206 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SPRINGER, JOHN. Innocent in Alaska: The Story of Margaret Knudsen Burke. New York: Coward-McCann 1963. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 319 pages. Description: Dust jacket art by Tom Dunn. Eighteen year old Margaret Knudsen arrived in Nome, Alaska in 1904. She had come to Alaska as the Territory's first woman telephone operator and ended by operating much more than a switchboard. By her twentieth birthday she was worth $24,000. Margaret married Will Burke in 1911 and became a significant force in Alaska affairs. BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with pink text; owner's name blacked out on the front endpaper, and owner's inscription blacked out on the rear endpaper, the spine is slightly cocked, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0007DVHY8 USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 053938 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WHARTON, DAVID B. The Alaska Gold Rush. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press 1973. 3rd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 302 pages. Index, notes, bibliography. map endpapers. Description: Illustrated in b&w with historic photographs. The author concentrates on the peak years, 1897 to 1907, but also deals with the earlier years of exploration, founding of trading posts, and gold discoveries that preceded the big gold strikes. The author visited the scenes of the gold rush, retracing the miners' most popular routes, and talked to the old-timers, worked on old diggings. Mr Wharton recreated life along the streams and in the towns of the Far North. BINDING/CONDITION: dark brown cloth with gilt spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: 0-253-10061-5 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 054255 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.

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	BOLOTIN, NORM; PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLARENCE AND CLARKE KINSEY. Klondike Lost: A Decade of Photographs by Kinsey and Kinsey. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Northwest 1980. Oversize paperback about 8.25 inches tall by 11 wide 127 pages. Description: Lavishly illustrated with b&w photographs taken by brothers Clarence and Clarke Kinsey. This pictorial chronicle of the gold rush era was compiled over the span of a decade by this pair of young Grand Forks photographers. Norm Bolotin spent almost two years re-creating the town of Grand Forks -- its miners, storekeepers, prostitutes and children; the hotels and the bars; the cabins and the churches, and the gold mining that brought them all together. He utilized the Kinseys' photos; various research facilities and the recollections of the few people still living who had been in Grand Forks. BINDING/CONDITION: an oversize paperback; the front cover is creased, the half-title page has two vertical creases, otherwise Good condition. ISBN: 0-88240-130-0 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 056581 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	BROOKS, ALFRED HULSE. Blazing Alaska's Trails; 2nd Edition. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press 1973. 2nd Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 567 pages. Bibliography. map endpapers. Description: This was originally published in 1953. Includes several b&w illustrations; fold-out geologic table. Preface by Burton L Fryxell. From 1903 until his death in 1924, Dr Alfred H Brooks was in charge of the Alaskan activities of the United States Geological Survey. BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with gilt portrait on the front cover, gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to the spine ends, the hinges are sound, the text edges are clean, the cloth is clean with good color; no markings. ISBN: 0-912006-01-3 USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 \| £UK 10.75 \| JP¥ 1545] Book number: 054989 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HULLEY, CLARENCE C. Alaska, 1741-1953. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort 1953. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.75 inches tall) 406 pages. Index. map endpapers. Description: Includes many b&w plates. A narrative history of Alaska from the time of white man's first arrival. This was later revised and republished as Alaska, Past and Present. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with red text and small totem; a few owner's notes in ink, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Fair dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006ATDJ8 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 054525 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	JOHNSON, JAMES ALBERT. Carmack of the Klondike. Seattle / Victoria, British Columbia: Epicenter Press / Horsdal & Schubart 1990. Trade size paperback 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 166 pages. Notes, index. Description: Includes several b&w illustrations (maps, historic photographs and a few drawings). George Carmack was originally credited with the discovery of gold that set off the Klondike Gold Rush. This book gives the story of Carmack's wanderings and prospecting in Alaska and the Yukon, his life with his Indian wife, and his later years. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Good condition. ISBN: 0-920663-10-9 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 750] Book number: 056149 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	ROSCOE, FRED; EDITED BY STANLEY N ROSCOE. From Humboldt to Kodiak, 1886-1895: Recollections of a Frontier Childhood and the Founding of the First American School and the Baptist Mission at Kodiak, Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska: Limestone Press 1992. 1st Edition. Trade size paperback 8vo (9 inches tall) 211 pages. Index. Description: Includes a map and a very few historic photos. Fred Roscoe was born in Humboldt County, California in 1885 and died there of cancer in 1959. During his illness he began to write his autobiography. He lived to record the first ten years, mostly in Kodiak and nearby Wood Island, Alaska, between 1886 and 1895. His parents, Ida and Earnest, were the first American school teachers in Kodiak, less than 20 years after Alaska's purchase from Russia. Number 40 in the publisher's Alaska History series. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Very Good condition. ISBN: 0-919642-40-3 USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 055206 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SPRINGER, JOHN. Innocent in Alaska: The Story of Margaret Knudsen Burke. New York: Coward-McCann 1963. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 319 pages. Description: Dust jacket art by Tom Dunn. Eighteen year old Margaret Knudsen arrived in Nome, Alaska in 1904. She had come to Alaska as the Territory's first woman telephone operator and ended by operating much more than a switchboard. By her twentieth birthday she was worth $24,000. Margaret married Will Burke in 1911 and became a significant force in Alaska affairs. BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with pink text; owner's name blacked out on the front endpaper, and owner's inscription blacked out on the rear endpaper, the spine is slightly cocked, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0007DVHY8 USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 053938 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WHARTON, DAVID B. The Alaska Gold Rush. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press 1973. 3rd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 302 pages. Index, notes, bibliography. map endpapers. Description: Illustrated in b&w with historic photographs. The author concentrates on the peak years, 1897 to 1907, but also deals with the earlier years of exploration, founding of trading posts, and gold discoveries that preceded the big gold strikes. The author visited the scenes of the gold rush, retracing the miners' most popular routes, and talked to the old-timers, worked on old diggings. Mr Wharton recreated life along the streams and in the towns of the Far North. BINDING/CONDITION: dark brown cloth with gilt spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: 0-253-10061-5 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 054255 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.