Author: LINSTRAND, DOUG
Title: Doug Lindstrand's Alaskan Sketchbook
Description: Anchorage, Alaska: Doug Lindstrand, 1978. First American Edition. Soft Cover. Illustrated by Doug Linstrand. B&W & Color Illustrations; 11 x 8 1/2; Unpaginated pages; AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR SIGNED on half title page. Soft cover has light rubbing, bumping, and small sticker residue [? ] on front. Oblong shaped. Pages are clean and tight. Stapled wraps. Pages are not numbered, 100+ pages. States 'first edition' on half title page, and on copyright page printed May, 1978 first edition. Lavishly illustrated with 139 color pictures and dozens more b/w drawings of native alaskans and wildlife by the author. Rear pages of book have a journal, with dates and what the artist saw and photographed/drew. "...is the condensation of many hundreds of fieild sketches, studio-drawn sketches, and photographs. It is a diary of sorts, a journal of my wanderings and contacts with the wildlife and people of the North...I have seen, studied and drawn almost every game bird, bird of prey, fish and mammal of interior Alaska..." absolutely lovely and compelling 'sketch journal' of one man's love of Alaska, and the states inhabitants, human or animal. ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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