Author: BERTON, PIERRE
Title: Klondike the Life & Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
Description: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, DJ has short tears, chipping and creasing. ; Stated First Edition. A tight solid book. Gold dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, decorative endpapers. ; B&W maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 457 pages; A classic Canadian history by someone who spent his first 12 years in Dawson City. Berton was born there after the big rush and was imbued with the history of the place by his parents, especially by his mother, Laura Beatrice Berton, who wrote the biographical classic 'I Married the Klondike'.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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