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Our New Alaska: or the Seward Purchase Vindicated.
New York: Forest & Stream Publishing Company, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Hallock states the point of this book is "to point out the visible resources of that far-off territory, and to assist their laggard development; to indicate to those insufficiently informed the economic value of important industries hitherto almost neglected, which are at once available for immediate profit." [preface] Relatively common bound in red, uncommon in brown, very scarce in blue. Very Good-. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom corners very gently bumped, top two corners throught, wear to head and tail with minor loss, closed two-inch tear at the map tab, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, black ink decorative element, printed endpages, large fold-out map at rear. Blue cloth boards, frontispiece tissue guard. 8vo. 206pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Item #10455
Price: $100.00