The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon : A Hunter's Explorations for Wild Sheep in Sub-Arctic Mountains by Sheldon, Charles - 1911

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Carl Rungius. Publisher's green cloth with title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, top edge gilt, 8vo (9 inches tall), pp. xxi, [xxii], [1]-354, illustrated w. 4 maps (three full-page and one part. colored fold-out - all in fine cond.), tissue-guarded color frontis, B&W and colored plates throughout (all illustrations present as called for), appendices, index. Volume with a few small stains, corners and spine ends rubbed through, gilt somewhat dulled, period name in ink at top of ffep w. partial offset from same onto front pastedown, small modern owner sticker "... Banff, AB" to front pastedown, brief 1/4 inch crack at top of front hinge, terminal leaf unopened at fore-edge, booksellers tag to foot of rear pastedown (note: publisher's binder has glued the 1st rfep to rear paste-down and thus effectively making it the rear paste-down as evidenced by the old bookseller's tag affixed to it). "Sheldon's day to day record of field experiments studying colour variations of mountain sheep. The two summer trips included trips to the Ogilvie Mountains, MacMillan River, Selwyn Mountains, the Pelly River and other regions, with a great deal on big game hunting." Whale 1380 ; Arctic Bib. 15873.