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The Alaska Railroad In Pictures 1914-1964 [Complete in Two Volumes].

Anchorage, Alaska: Ken Wray's Print Shop, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. The two volumes contain approximately 2,100 photographs and line drawings. A very scarce and sought after pictorial history of events surrounding the Alaska Railroad. Created, funded, and operated by the federal government, the volumes document the story of the railroad from preliminary surveys, to the period of construction, through the period of neglect, through two world wars, reconstruction, modernization, etc...through 1964. A handsome set. Near Fine+ in Very Good+ DJ. Minimal shelf/edge wear, two corners gentled bumped, else tight, bright, and unmarred; light shelf/edge wear, small chip at top of Vol. 2 DJ, else bright, and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. Small 4to. 1092pp (Vol 2 ends at 466). Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 691 of 1000. Both volumes signed by the author. Item #10449

Price: $1,250.00

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