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Seattle: Klondike Gold Rush Centennial Committee / Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce. 1997. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. F First Edition Used. Paperback. Very Good.

Tucson: Tombstone Nugget Publishing Co, n.y.. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. 95pp. Illustrations, maps, line drawings. Near fine. Undated (circa 1970?) facsimile reprint of the Chicago Record Co.'s original 1897 edition of this well-known Klondike Gold Rush how-to. Superb copy.

Portland, Ore.: Portland Post card Co. Postcard. Very Good. No Binding. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Manuscript ink message & address (Meaford, Ontario, Canada), with additional note to photo side. Contemporary US postage stamp with nice clear Dome, Alaska Aug. 1909 postal cancel. Moderate toning, edge & corner wear. .

New York: Aekell Weekly Co., 1897 Tall paper sheets. 14 pp. Centerfold has photograph of "Some of Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships." Also of interest is a photograph of the steamer Mexica leavin Seattle for the Yukon. Was originally bound with other issues. Very Good.

Fairbanks, Alaska: Johnson Postcard. Near Fine. No Binding. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Moderate toning, mild edge & corner wear. .

London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., [1936]. 8vo. [8], 279, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Gray cloth, black lettering on spine (minor shelfwear), still VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this excellent biography detailing the life and experiences of the Klondike gold fields and Skagway “Public Enemy” Soapy Smith, and the aftermath of the vigilante’s cleaning house immediately following his death.

Fairbanks, Alaska: Hall's Book Store Postcard. Very Good. No Binding. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Manuscript ink message & address (Meaford, Ontario, Canada), with additional brief notation to picture side. Contemporary US postage stamp with no postal cancel. Moderate toning, edge & corner wear. .

Fairbanks, Alaska: Anderson Bros., Druggists and Stationers Postcard. Near Fine. No Binding. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Moderate toning, mild edge & corner wear. .

Portland, Ore.: Portland Post card Co. Postcard. Very Good. No Binding. Postcard -- tinted photographic print. No date, but circa 1909. Manuscript ink message & address (Meaford, Ontario, Canada). Contemporary US postage stamp with nice clear Dome, Alaska Aug. 1909 postal cancel. Moderate toning, edge & corner wear. .

Fairbanks, Alaska: Johnson, 1907. Postcard. Very Good. No Binding. Postcard -- tinted photographic print, folds out to double postcard size with panoramic view. Mild moisture ripple. Moderate fading, toning, mild edge & corner wear. Handwritten note to photo side. .

National Park Service, 2010. Plastic spiral. Used - Very Good. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2010. vii, 404 pages. 18 maps, most folding; illustrated, most color. 11 x 8.5", plastic spiral. Clean, VG.

Chicago & New York: Union Book & Publishing Company, [ca. 1904]. Folio. 12 x 13.75 in. pp. 201-[216]. With photo illustrations throughout. Illustrated printed khaki-coloured softcovers (edgewear, chipping to head of spine), still VG copy. First edition, thus, of this installment in the bi-monthly “America, Her Grandeur” released by Union Book during the opening decade of the 20th Century. This installment focuses on the Alaska and Yukon Territory, with excellent gold mining, Alaska & Yukon steamships and railroads, and more. Although undated, the work does specifically mention that the Tenana Railroad will be started in 1905, and that the gold rush had just recently launched with most miners trekking into the Cleary, Fairbanks and Ester Creeks in the Fall of 1903. Worldcat locates 3 copies (U of GA, Clarke Hist. Lib., UTX Austin).

Langley:: Timberholme Books,, 1999.. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket . W.H.T. Olive's memoir is his record of the year he spent as manager of the boats for the Bennett Lake & Klondyke Navigation Company in the Yukon Gold Rush of 1898. In the untamed North, where travellers had only one thing on their minds, Gold! Olive's day-to-day life was nothing but extraordinary. He acted as onboard diplomat for both seasoned prospectors and greenhorns, shot the White Horse Rapids, and in addition to passengers and their provisions, was responsible for two all-important kinds of shipment: mail and liquor. His adventures included rescuing damsels in distress, guiding his employer, the architect Frank Rattenbury, through a disastrous, mosquito-infested expedition, and defending his strongbox at gunpoint from thieves. Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police, William Ogilvie, first commissioner of the Yukon, Machine-gun Joe Boyle, and the notorious gangster… Read More

New York:: McGraw-Hill,, 1977.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Alaska! The Yukon! The Klondike! This volume documents the whole glorious story of the great gold hunt in the last decade of the 19th century, with more than 500 rare photographs. Authors Bronson and Reinhardt document the complete story of the monumental gold discovery in Alaska beginning with the gold-laden schooner Excelsior in San Francisco the summer of 1897 to the wind down of the stampede in 1899. Fully illustrated with more than 500 black and white photographs of the era.

Ottawa: Thorburn & Abbott, 1913. Thick 8vo. xii, 306 pp. Photo frontisp., 31 plates (occasional wear & creasting at fore-edges). Red publisher’s cloth, borders embossed in blind, gilt lettering front cover & spine (minor wear to lower fore-edge, very minor wear & slight bumping to corners, occasional interior light toning), still VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings dated July, 1917 on front pastedown. First edition of this excellent memoir by the author detailing his explorations into the Yukon-Alaska Territories transported by canoes, talking with miners, and whose reports were some of the first to report the vast mineral wealth in the territories. Ogilvie (1849-1912), marked the Canada-Alaska boundary, mapped the city of Dawson, and was present when the gold strike on Rabbit Creek in 1896 launched the Klondike Gold Rush. See: Ricks, p. 164; Wickersham, 6784.

London: For Private Circulation, 1849. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, with some neat professional restoration to spine, corners, and hinges. Some toning and foxing to text; old owner's armorial bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. .

San Francisco: Cal. Demokrat Publishing Co., 1898. Fair. 21-1/2 x 17-1/4 inches. [8]pp. Tabloid format newspaper, printed in seven columns per page. Occasional b&w illustrations. Text in German. In fair condition only, with significant soiling and large, light stains, somewhat affecting readability; numerous small holes to first two leaves, most pinhole-sized or slightly bigger, a few as large as pea-sized, all sporadically affecting text; several short tears to edges and last leaf; old folds. A scarce issue of this influential German-language daily, which ran from 1852-1918. The front page devotes considerable space to coverage of the looming Spanish-American War, which is here termed "unvermeidlich" (inevitable). The increasingly ominous preparations of the two countries since the sinking of the USS Maine are described at length, as well as England and various European countries beginning to choose sides. Also included in this issue is content about Japan's imperial ambitions in China (viewed here… Read More

New York: Illustrated London News, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in original marbled boards, rebacked in leather. Handling and some staining to fore-edge of text. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume. Spectacular illustrations, including numerous fold-outs on the Diamond Jubilee; a good deal including illustrations of the Klondike..

Circle City, Alaska, and on a steamer between Juneau and Seattle, Nov. 10, 1896; Feb. 17, 1897.. [12]pp. typed on folio sheets of onion-skin paper, plus three hand-drawn maps. A total of some 6,750 words. Stapled at upper edge. Three horizontal folds. Near fine. A very interesting pair of typed letters from a young man in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. The anonymous author wrote these two letters to his parents, describing his journey overland and by water to the Birch Creek mining district, his experiences mining for gold, and his decision to go into business as a merchant. The letters are written in a detailed style that indicates an educated author. They include three manuscript sketches showing the routes traversed in Alaska and provide a great deal of information about the writer's experiences in the Klondike. These letters are typed, but they were likely originally handwritten by the author, who later typed them (and included his manuscripts maps and sketch) in order to send them to his… Read More