Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, inscribed and signed by author McPhee on the title page, book is clean, binding is tight, contents are fine, no significant flaws, jacket is price-clipped, scuffed, and has a small amount of edge-wear along the top, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "Rowell's images strike an evocative counterpoint to McPhee's text" ; ; 146 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 145pp., illustrated. Signed by Rowell. Text from "Coming Into The Country." Photographs by Galen Rowell. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket
Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
McPhee, John. Alaska : Images of the Country. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall quarto, xiv + 146 pp., photo frontis, map, list of photographs. Extensive color photos. Deluxe edition limited to 500 numbered, specially bound, slip cased, signed copies. This is number 51 flat signed by both Galen Rowell and John McPhee. Decorated two tone cloth bound hard cover book in fine cond. There is a small wrinkle in the black f.f.e.p. top right hand corner. Cloth bound slip case would also be in fine cond. but on the back side there are several small smudges. Cosmetic only.
Seller: Ross & Haines Old Book Co., Hudson, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 145 pages, 4to. Missing slipcase. Deluxe Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, specially bound, SIGNED by Galen Rowell and John McPhee. This copy is not numbered, with a black slash where is copy number should be. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
John McPhee. Alaska: Images of the Country, Deluxe Edition. Sierra Club Books, 1981.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe first edition signed by both Rowell and McPhee. First printing. Number 105 of 500 copies. Book is like new. Dust jacket has slightest smudging to cloth
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
MCPHEE, JOHN.. Alaska: Images of the Country. San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1981, 1981.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by McPhee and photographer Galen Rowell. Fine in the publisher's slipcase. [With] a first trade edition in dust jacket, as well as the Promontory Press edition, in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
John McPhee. Alaska: Images of the Country, Deluxe Edition. Sierra Club Books, 1981.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited edition of which this is numbered 458 of 500 issued. Signed by both Galen Rowell, the photographer and John McPhee whose text from Coming into the Country is used. Small wear to the top of the slipcase with minor soiling to the slipcase. The book is in fine condition.
Seller: Dan A. Domike, Hoquiam, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: #490/500. Large quarto. (xiv) 145pp. (1). Cream colored cloth slipcase with a burgundy totem illustration on the cover. Burgundy buckram over cream colored cloth boards, with a burgundy totem illustration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Hand numbered and signed by the Rowell and McPhee at the colophon. The book is a lovely photographic survey of the landscapes and people of Alaska, with complementary text accompaniment by John McPhee. McPhee's text is taken from his book "Coming Into the Country", which served as inspiration for the photographer's journey to Alaska. Slipcase with smudging and light staining. Slipcase in good-, binding and interior in near fine condition overall.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A wonderful signed limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by John McPhee & Galen Rowell, still in publisher's descriptive cardboard shipping carton. Quite uncommon. This is a publisher's complimentary copy, signed but not numbered, with a publisher's slip laid in.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$323.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe edition, one of 500 copies signed by McPhee and Rowell. 4to. pp. xiv, 146; photo. illusts., sketch map; obituary of Rowell pasted in at front, near-fine in original cloth-backed cloth boards in slipcase. A beautifully produced record of the people and places of Alaska, including views of the Alaska range with Mt. McKinley.
Seller: Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 390 of a deluxe edition limited to 500 copies signed by both McPhee and photographer Rowell. Maroon cloth spine and hinges, tan cloth boards, gilt titling on the spine. Native-American style design of eagle on front panel. In a fine matching slipcase.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Deluxe SIGNED Limited Edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by John McPhee & Galen Rowell. Fine in quarter maroon cloth, with gold stamped titles & creme colored cloth, laid-into a creme colored publisher's slipcase with a maroon colored eagle totem stamped on front cover. Nicely produced.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.