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Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 325 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, very good condition. (100220).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. Gilt dulled, mild soil/rubbing to cloth. Block edge foxed, ffep has small chip, minor soil to prelims. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 325 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 325 pgs, photo illustrations. Original patterned green cloth with gilt titled spine. Previous owners signature on rear endpaper - Philip W. Lauriat, 3d Lieut., RCS, Nov 1st, 1903. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor shelf rubbing to edges and spine ends, else bright. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Important narrative of early US Revenue Service work in Alaska and the Yukon River. The Nunivak was a stern-paddle wheel river boat built for duty as a revenue cutter and patrol boat for service on the Yukon River. First Lieutenant John C. Cantwell, USRCS, was assigned on 4 April 1899 as her first and only commanding officer. She was placed in commission on 1 May 1899 and was ordered towed to Seattle by the cutter Rush. The cutters departed San Francisco on 6 May but anchored in Humbolt Harbor as Nunivak was "leaking badly, hog chains and towline parted. Oakum spewed out of seams." After some repairs the cutters departed for Seattle, arriving there on 24 May 1899. They departed Seattle on 10 June 1899 bound for Port Townsend. They arrived at St. Michael, Alaska on 6 July 1899. The Nunivak was ordered to be put up for sale on 3 May 1901, after serving less than two years. This publication includes Cantwell's narrative of operations. Also includes sections on general information on the Yukon River, mines and mining, ethnological notes on the habits and customs of the natives, explorations of both the Koyukuk and Dall Rivers.
Seller: NorthStar Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 325pp, large octavo, tight binding, embossed green boards with gilt spine titles, worn all about (heavier on the backstrip) bumped and rubbed corners, owner's name, clean throughout.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.79 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Publisher's green blind-stamped cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the spine. Illustrated with black and white plates taken from photographs. Top edge of text block darkened a bit by dust. Aside from some minimal wear along the edges of the boards, a remarkably tight and clean copy in very good to near fine condition. A. B. 18403. A scarce government publication on the exploration of the U. S. Revenue Steamer Nunivak that "operated as a revenue and patrol boat to serve the large population brought to the Yukon Valley by the gold rushes".
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Report of the Operations of the U.S. Revenue Steamer Nunivak on the Yukon River Station, Alaska, 1899-1901. By 1st Lieutenant J.C. Cantwell and printed in Washington, D.C. by the Government Printing Office. 1902, 325 pp, 9 x 6.25 , library cloth rebind. In overall fair condition, with rubbing and discoloration to boards, primarily along the edges and corners. Hinges are in good condition with minor wear. Ex-library from the Wilmington Institute Free Library, with a bookplate on the front pastedown, card holder on the back flyleaf page, and the library s name holepunched through the title page and corners of photographs. No frontispiece, if one was ever included. General age-related toning to pages. Filled with numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. An extremely scarce government printing, detailing the activities of the Nunivak, a small steamer that operated on the Yukon River in Alaska. FORN-ABE-MSB-1121-Shelf-620-aj843
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo. Pp. 325. Green pebble-grain cloth, blindstamped, with gilt spine lettering. Amply illustrated throughout with b&w photo reproductions. A few pages were evidently attached to each other with slight dampening, with insignificant abrasion to those pages, not affecting text. That said, a handsome copy with bright shelf appeal. The Nunivak was dispatched to collect revenue and to offer law-and-order to the large gold rush populations that filled the Yukon Valley. Cantwell's narrative encompasses incidents of duty for three seasons. Includes a comparative Eskimo and Ingalik vocabularies; a list of vessels engaged in commerce; a reconnaissance of the Dall River, the Koyukuk River, and the Koyukuk Trail.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 325, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very minor spine extremity and tip wear. Overall, a very good and clean copy in the original, very attractive, binding.While Captain of the Revenue Steamer Nunivak in 1899?1901, Cantwell sent out exploratory teams from the Yukon River, some during winter. This report contains a wealth of information about the native Alaskans, the local fauna and flora nd the typography of the land. His 1902 report was declared ?one of the finest books ever written about Alaska? by the explorer General Adolphus Greely. Between 1884 and 1901, Cantwell?s activities were mostly in the Arctic, usually with the RCS?s Bering Sea Fleet. Cantwell was a proponent for introducing reindeer into AlaskaPreviously owned by William Hamilton and signed and dated (1903) by him on the front pastedown. Hamilton was also involved in the introduction of reindeer into Alaska; "In 1902 the last importation of reindeer from Siberia took place, When Dr. William Hamilton, Assistant Agent of Education in Alaska and later Assistant Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Education, assisted by Captain Francis Tuttle of the Bear, secured thirty head of reindeer from the vicinity of Cape Ilpinski at the entrance to Baron Korf Bay. The Russians thereupon withdrew all permits for the exportation of reindeer from their domain" (Carl Lomen).
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.