Alaska
Kroeber Anthropologal Society Papers [Numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6]
Berkeley: the Society, 1950-1952. Paperback. Four issues of the 8.5x11 inch paperbound publication, mimeographed interior with printed covers. Very good. Includes articles on native Alaskan cultures, linguistics, etc. More
Cat.No: 238377
Michael Coleman / Themes of the Hunt. May 1-31, 1985. Wunderlich & Company Inc
New York: Wunderlich & Company, 1985. Pamphlet. 32p., profuse b&w and color reproductions (reproduced well) softbound in 9x9 inch die cut printed wraps, A fine copy in every respect. Laid in find three standard leaves corner-stapled, a mimeo'd list of prices with holograph indicators of certain ones sold. More
Cat.No: 288582
Ninth annual report of the Woman's American Baptist home mission society, with the report of the annual meeting held in The first baptist church, Providence, R. I., May 4, 1887
Boston: the society, printed by C. H. Simonds & Co, 1887. 66p., staplebound textblock in 7.5 x 5.25 inch decorated wraps, a couple of tiny corners lost and portions of untitled backstrip are chipped away; staples rusted. Otherwise, bright appearance, mild handling wear. Domestic outreach, to "the Chinese of Fresno..... More
Cat.No: 65393
Research Report on The Advantages of Metering - Compiled for the Alaska Department of Health, Water Works Operators School
New York: Neptune Meter Company, 1954. Paperback. Variously paginated, a compilation aimed at inducing small Alaskan towns to save money by measuring water usage, thus correcting sloppiness, gross leaks, and fraud. Typewritten general text, typed and printed individual reports, supplemented with graphs & stats from all over the US. Clean..... More
Cat.No: 286959
Development of new lands in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
[Juneau]: Alaska Power Administration, 1970. xiv, 90 p., 8.5x11 inches, three holes punched at left (not affecting text), disbound. Rubberstamp on cover indicates rejection as a duplicate by Harvard's Tozzer Library. "Report of a study undertaken by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Alaska Power Administration in 1970 at the..... More
Cat.No: 150683
Sitsiy yugh noholnik ts'in' / As my grandfather told it: traditional stories from the Koyukuk
Koyukuk, AK: Yukon-Koyukuk School District, 1983. 256 page paperback, very good. Yukon-Koyukon stories from interior Alaska. More
Cat.No: 345897
Favorite recipes
Juneau, Alaska: National Guard Officers' Wives, [196-]. Unpaginated cookbook, mimeographed pages, edgeworn wraps with a black plastic comb binding. Brief gift inscription on first page. More
Cat.No: 206102
Warning; Alaska's underground music information publication, issue 16 (Fall 1985)
Anchorage, AK: F. Harlan, 1985. 40p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound zine style format; address penned on back cover, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 335389
Alaska Review: Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 1964
Anchorage: Alaska Methodist University, 1964. Pamphlet. 60p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, fiction, poetry, articles, wraps toned else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 273323
The way of the North: a romance of the days of Baranof
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Hardcover. 320p., hinges cracked, spine lettering totally eroded, decorations and lettering on front panel partly eroded, original blue cloth edge worn, inscribed by Cheney and dated in 1905, ex library Anita Whitney with her ownership signature and book plate (Whitney was a leader..... More
Cat.No: 109384
Spirit Spirit: Shaman Songs
Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press, 1980. 100p, 5x8.5 inch blue wraps; old price blacked out on rear cover, otherwise in very good condition. Serbian, Eskimo, and Northwest Coast shamanic songs and poetry, freely adapted from anthropologist records. More
Cat.No: 346510
6194: Denali solo
Davis: Ed Darack Photography, 1994. Paperback. 166p., 5.5x8.5 inches, preface, notes, photos, maps, very good first edition in glossy pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 99833
This is not a silent movie; four contemporary Alaska Native artists
Anchorage: Craft and Folk Art Museum / Anchorage Museum, 2013. 31p., pictorial wraps; color photoillustrations, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 331436
Denner Recipes
[Ketchikan AK]: D Press, 1968. Pamphlet. [12p] 5x6.75 inches, 5 concrete poems illustrated with tipped-in color woodcut or linocut prints, very good chapbook in stapled blue wraps with vinyl tape spine backing. Denner was at one time a Berkeley Street Poet from Sebastapol. He spent some time in Alaska and..... More
Cat.No: 219309
Head Soup
[Fairbanks AK]: Self-published by the author as dPress, [1972]. Pamphlet. [12p] 5.25x7.25 inches, six cryptic poems facing six small silkscreened images of heterosexual nudes with musical instruments stapled wraps, a homemade job with blue plastic-tape spine; covers are somewhat handled and edgeworn, the color prints have offset onto their companioning..... More
Cat.No: 219308
The Chaplain’s Daughter
New York: William-Frederick Press, 1958. Pamphlet. 40p., wraps. 8.5x5.5 in. Very Good. Family history of the Van Hornes, with an emphasis on Elizabeth, whose father was an Army chaplain; the family was stationed in Alaska shortly after its purchase by the US government in 1867. More
Cat.No: 310897
The Goldsmith of Nome and other verse
Washington DC: The Neale Pub. Co., 1901. 80p., introduction. black dot on fore-edge, otherwise a very good first edition hardcover bound in green cloth boards with a gilt cover designed by the author. Written a few years earlier while the poet was serving as a Statistical Expert for the Department..... More
Cat.No: 330824
Unfinished Business of the Presbyterian Church in America
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1921. Paperback. 176p., frontispiece, introduction, tables, illustrated with b&w plates from photos, lightly-worn first edition paperback in gray printed wraps. Thirty-eight page section on Spanish-speaking people in American including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans. More
Cat.No: 243076
Aurilly, the Virgin Isle.
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1923. Hardcover. 152, [6] pages + 1 plate (frontispiece, illustration of a meteor), boards. Author's presentation inscription on front flyleaf. Bound in publisher's dark green textured cloth, gilt stamped on front cover and spine. Very Good. Science fiction novel. An island emerges near Alaska after the..... More
Cat.No: 337241
![Cat.No: 148774 Gibson's Cafe: Valdez, Alaska [placemat]. Gibson's Cafe](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/148774.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1518397735)
Gibson's Cafe: Valdez, Alaska [placemat]
Valdez: Gibson's Cafe, [1965]. Single sheet 14.5x10 inches printed one-side only, brown ink on yellow paperstock, folded twice else very good condition; history of Valdez up to 1964 with a simple linedrawn map. Valdez was the second oldest settlement on the mainland of central Alaska. We learn that in 1912..... More
Cat.No: 148774
The battle of the Aleutians. A graphic history, 1942 - 1943
Adak, AK: Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, Adak, Alaska, 1944. Pamphlet. [24]pp., illustrations, oblong wraps. 5.25 x 7.75 in. About good. General soiling, scuffs and closed tears to covers. Describes the campaign to prevent Japanese forces from gaining a foothold on the Alaskan island chain during WWII. "In honor and..... More
Cat.No: 280733
The battle of the Aleutians: A graphic history, 1942-1943
Adak, Alaska: Intelligence Section, Field Headquarters, 1943. Pamphlet. [24p.], staplebound booklet, very good; "From Pfc. Eugene Fisher, Mar. 1944" penned inside front cover, faint corner crease to front cover, generally very good. Describes the campaign to prevent Japanese forces from gaining a foothold on the Alaskan island chain during WWII..... More
Cat.No: 281990
Ritual Ablation of Front Teeth in Siberia & America
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1940. 32p., wraps, pages partly uncut. Five B&W photo plates showing skulls with incisor teeth intentionally removed. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 99 #3. Modern punks have nothing on these guys. More
Cat.No: 133920
Emperor XI John Nelson, Empress XII Reyna and the 11th Imperial Court of the Empire of All of Alaska welcome you ro...Coronation '85: "A future fantasy" [souvenir program]
Anchorage: Imperial Court of Alaska, 1985. Magazine. [40p] 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with photos, ads, list of Imperial titles, program for the event, very good souvenir program in stapled white glossy pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 204381