Price: US$9.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 24pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with a full-page map of Alaska and part of British Columbia showing the Yukon River from its source in British Columbia to its mouth in Alaska, which was Schwatka's course, and 21 drawings after sketches by the author, fina page-only of Part I was damaged and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from damaged issues of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXX, Nos. 5/6, September / October, 1885. Lieutenant Schwatka's 1883 raft expedition into Alaska and the British Northwest Territory mostly to gather military information on the native Indian tribes. The author's book, Along Alaska's Great River, would be published later in the year by Cassell & Company, New York. Housed in protective mylar report cover.
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Frederick Schwatka. Along Alaska's Great River. Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1885.
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Maroon cloth boards, two inch tear at the top of the spine, has both fold out maps, one in a pocket in the inside front board. Nice black and white illustrations. Bumped corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
Frederick Schwatka. Along Alaska's Great River. Cassell & Company Ltd., 1885.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Map in front flap present. Cracked at front end paper. Wear to boards, otherwise good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 360 pp.+ Illus Plt at Frontis & 20 Other Illus Plts in Text along with many smaller sketches, Orig Brn Hardback with Gilt Title & Top Edge Gilt, vol professionally tightened with new e.p., some light pencil marks in margins, lacks pocket map, else VG, 1st ed
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$97.47 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Disbound copy with badly worn, faded, rubbed boards that need replacing, although attractive presentation label on map pocket (which contains a rarely opened map) fep and prelim attached to boards. Front hinge broken, exposing spine. Bep loose. Pages clean but loose and somewhat aged (expected after 145 years?) Two other maps (one folding), Frontis and 23 other plates plus 48 in text illus. 380 pps. Over 1kg, extra post might be required outside UK at cost. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Schwatka, Frederick. ALONG ALASKA'S GREAT RIVER. Cassell & Company, Ltd., New York, 1885.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 360 pages; Very light rubbing and wear to covers. Just a touch of edgewear along top and bottom of spine. Map in pocket on inside front cover.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Schwatka, Frederick. ALONG ALASKA'S GREAT RIVER. Cassell & Company, 1885.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches; 360 pp; Just a touch of edge rubbing, folding map in front pocket is complete without any tears, a Very nice, clean and attractive book
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$277.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 360. wood-engraved frontis. & 70 wood-engraved text illus. (many full-page) after photographs by Mr. Homan & sketches by Sergeant Gloster. 3 maps (2 folding 1 inserted in front pocket). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (extremities chipped & frayed, hinges taped). First Edition. "A detailed narrative for general readers of the Alaska Military Reconnaissance 1883 with running comment on the country traversed, on the Indians, Eskimos, and their customs." (Arctic Bib.) The expedition under Lt. Schwatka travelled from Lynn Canal via Lake Bennett and Lewes River to the Yukons headwaters and down to its mouth in June and August of 1883. Arctic Bib. 15598. Ricks p. 193. Smith 9127. Wickersham 2793.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada