Item Details
Travels in Alaska [Large Paper Edition].
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Unopened textblock. Illustrated with 16 plates from photographs (most by Herbert W. Gleason). Color photogravure frontispiece from a painting by Thomas Hill. Each of the three sections covers a different trip by the author (1879, 1880, and 1890). [Kimes 334.] Noted flaws notwithstanding, a rather handsome copy of a book increasingly difficult to find in good shape. Good+. No DJ. Light shelf/edge wear, light even soiling, three tips gently bumped, toning at spine, light wear to spine label, light sporadic tide mark at foredge focused at ffep and preliminaries, light even toning at textblock edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, green cloth spine, green paper boards, leather spine label, gilt lettering, color frontispiece. 8v. xl, 327pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Index. Glossary. Numbered limited edition, this being 403 of 450 copies. Item #10453
Price: $325.00