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THE WILDERNESS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST ISLANDS: A Hunter's Experiences while Searching for Wapiti, Bears, and Caribou on the Larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska
by Sheldon, Charles
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About This Item
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1912. First edition. Profusely illustrated with full-plate black-and-white photographs, drawings by Carl Rungius, 4 maps in the text, and one folding map ("General map of North Pacific Coast islands"). 8vo gilt-stamped green cloth boards with top edge gilt; 246 pp. including appendices and index. Fine with light scratch to front cover and a bit of ephemera laid in - 16-page publisher's catalog "Some Scribner Fall publications" with this book listed on p.7; publisher's bookmark advertising 2 titles ("The Kitten's Garden of Verses" and "The Mythological Zoo"); and colorful 4-page "Xmas 1912" advertisement for "Swan Safety Fountpens" from Lancaster, PA, bookseller "L. B. Herr," whose small bookseller's ticket also appears at bottom of front pastedown.
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- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71762
- Title
- THE WILDERNESS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST ISLANDS: A Hunter's Experiences while Searching for Wapiti, Bears, and Caribou on the Larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska
- Author
- Sheldon, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
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