- Keyword = alaska
-
THE SPELL OF THE YUKON.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1964. c. 1907) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1906, this was one of the earliest and most popular collections of Service's verse - includes 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew,' 'The Cremation of Sam McGee.' 'Fighting Mac,' 'The March of the Dead,' 'The Law of the Yukon' and more. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-399-150110.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription in pencil, some toning to spine of dj, , price of 2.00 on dj flap)
Book ID: 92869More details Price: $15.00 -
FLOWERS IN THE SNOW: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison,
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (ARC, trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 92733More details Price: $25.00 -
GRANITE.
Edition: Second edition.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 92659More details Price: $21.50 -
PARDNERS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, (c 1905). Hardcover - His first book, a collection of ten short stories mostly set in Alaska during the years of the Klondike gold rush and originally published in 1905. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three inserted glossy plates. 278 pp plus 4 pp of publishers advertising.
Condition: Very good in beige cloth with illustrated front cover (slight spine slant, no dust jacket).
Book ID: 92376More details Price: $15.00 -
FOOL'S GOLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (his first won the PEN/Faulkner award) - Set during the Alaskan gold rush in the 1890's this brings together a diverse group of people - Eskimos, Irish, Japanese and North American. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-394568566.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 92260More details Price: $21.50 -
GOING TO THE SUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel - the story of Penny who, haunted by her past, and fighting a deblitating illness, sets off on a cross-country bike tour back to Alaska. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0173742.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 92008More details Price: $30.00 -
SLED DOG TRAILS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Anchorage, AK: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., (1984). SIGNED first edition - A book which is essentially the diary of a young woman who went to Alaska in 1965 and fell in love with the wilderness. In 1974 with a black part-Labrador lead dog named Cabbage, she became the first woman to complete the 1,049-mile Iditarod sled dog race. SIGNED by author on half-title page. Illustrated by Nancy Van Veenen. xii, 127 pp. ISBN: 0-882402587.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91975More details Price: $21.50 -
SHAMAN PASS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 91963More details Price: $18.50 -
THE REFUGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Maxie and Stretch mystery, set on Hawaii, by this award-winning writer. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780451220479.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 91794More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SEA OTTER IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN: North American Fauna 68.
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Sport Fisheries, 1969. First edition - A report based on field studies from 1955 to 1967, primarily in the Aleutian Islands, as well as on unpublished reports and letters. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, charts and tables. A detailed monograph, #68 in the North American Fauna series. From the library of mammalogist and author Jacqueline Schoneward with her name on front endpaper. References, appendix, index. xii, 352 pp.
Condition: Near fine in turquoise cloth with the original wrappers bound in (some spine slant)
Book ID: 91420More details Price: $40.00 -
THE SEA OTTER IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN: North American Fauna 68.
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Sport Fisheries, 1969. First edition - A report based on field studies from 1955 to 1967, primarily in the Aleutian Islands, as well as on unpublished reports and letters. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, charts and tables. A detailed monograph, #68 in the North American Fauna series. References, appendix, index. xii, 352 pp.
Condition: Near fine in gray printed wrappers (name on front cover, sunning to spine)
Book ID: 91419More details Price: $21.50 -
RICK OF HIGH RIDGE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good overall in blue cloth with black lettering on spine, black bear on front cover (some soiling to covers, gift inscription and some foxing to margins of several pages, but still a sturdy and attractive copy)
Book ID: 91163More details Price: $40.00 -
GRANITE.
Edition: Second edition.
Condition: Near fine (inscription on title page) in a very good dustjacket (tear to front cover near spine, tape repaired tear on side of spine)
Book ID: 89820More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GREAT LAND: Poems of Alaska.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Anchorage, AK: Ken Wray Press, 1969. First edition - The author's fourth collection of poems, illustrated with drawings by the author. 76 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89761More details Price: $15.00 -
VITUS BERING AND JAMES COOK DISCOVER ALASKA AND HAWAII (cover title "Arctic Sun and Tropic Moon,"
Edition: First printing.
Newark, Delaware: Spiral Press for Friends of the Curtis Paper Co. 1960. First edition - The 6th publication in a series of Americana commissioned each year by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware - this one issued to commemorate Alaska and Hawaii becoming states. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by the Spiral Press on Curtis paper. 26 pp plus colaphone and large fold-out colored map by David Soshensky.
Condition: Very near fine in a stapled illustrated wrappers (a hint of toning)
Book ID: 89551More details Price: $21.50 -
NORTHERN EDGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel which grew out of journals which she kept during two summers spent in Alaska. Set on the Northwest coast, this is the story of the growing friendship between two women who are thrown together in an Arctic field camp. 217 pp. ISBN: 1556111738.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. (embossed seal on front endpaper)
Book ID: 89234More details Price: $16.50 -
WHAT IS TIME TO A PIG?
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: SOHO Press, (2020). First edition - The third Cold Storage novel - an offbeat story of a prisoner smuggled out of a Federal Penitentiary in a hollow tree because he might know where a second nuclear warhead (launched by Korea to Alaska) is hidden. 255 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88233More details Price: $19.50 -
CITY UNDER ONE ROOF.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2023) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first thriller by this Oscar nominated screenwriter, set in a fictionalized version of Whittier, Alaska, a town with a year round population of about 280, most of whom live in the winter in one building. Told in the alternating voices of three women - Cara Kennedy, a detective from Anchorage who finds herself trapped in the town when a landslide closes the only access; a teenager named Amy Lin, who discovered the first body parts, and Lonnie, a 30-something woman with a pet moose. Cover praise from such diverse writers as C. J. Box, Ann Cleeves, Naomi Hirahara and more. SIGNED on the title page. 298 pp. ISBN: 978-0593336670.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 87976More details Price: $85.00 -
AMERICA'S COLONIAL EXPERIMENT: How the United States Gained, Governed, and In Part Gave Away a Colonial Empire.
Edition: First edition.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the American experiment in imperialism, from the Louisiana purchase to the annexation of Hawaii and the occupation of Japan and Korea and the islands of the South Pacific and the Philippines after World War II. Maps. Sources, notes, index. ix, 460 pp.
Condition: Near fine in light green cloth in a very good dust jacket (some tidemarks visible on the verso of the dj).
Book ID: 87544More details Price: $25.00 -
EDGES OF THE EARTH: A Man, A Woman, A Child In The Alaskan Wilderness.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Leo's story of homesteading - first with his girlfriend in 1981 - and then for 10 years with his young son - in a wild and beautiful land. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-15752.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 86788More details Price: $21.50 -
KING SEASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), set in the dangerous world of crab fishing in Alaska. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-877957142.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (slight sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 86057More details Price: $17.50 -
FOOL'S GOLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (his first won the PEN/Faulkner award) - Set during the Alaskan gold rush in the 1890's this brings together a diverse group of people - Eskimos, Irish, Japanese and North American. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-394568566.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 85443More details Price: $18.50 -
LITTLE FLIP: The Fur Seal That Could Not Swim.
Edition: First printing.
Ann Arbor, MI: By the author (printed by Edwards Brothers, Lithoprinters) 1960. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming - and very uncommon - children's book. Little Flip in a seal pup born on one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, but when his first attempt to swim is a disaster, he is convinced he will never learn how to swim, until one day he sees his friend threatened by a killer whale, and he jumps in to distract the whale. Illustrated with drawings by Mosinski, hand-lettered text. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Small oblong format. 35 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated light blue boards. Scarce - No copies currently for sale, Worldcat only locates two copies.
Book ID: 82166More details Price: $100.00 -
JOURNEY TO A DREAM.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Sherman, AK: Sherman Publishing, (2006). SIGNED first edition - An account of a family who moved from Missouri to Alaska, with their four young children, in 1963, and of the difficulties they encountered and also the rewards. Illustrated with small black and white photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page. Glossary. 179 pp. ISBN: 978-1615847822.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82153More details Price: $15.00 -
JOURNEYS TO THE FAR NORTH,
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in dark blue cloth in a near fine dust jacket. (some toning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 81962More details Price: $21.50 -
MIDNIGHT SUN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel (third book), a story of "two tough-talking drifters forced to confront their vulnerability in the Alaskan wilderness." When Jack and Burke agree to help a favor rescue his daughter from a strange milennial cult, in return for $10,000, they find themselves in a struggle for their lives. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 81790More details Price: $35.00 -
MIDNIGHT SUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (third book), a story of "two tough-talking drifters forced to confront their vulnerability in the Alaskan wilderness." When Jack and Burke agree to help a favor rescue his daughter from a strange milennial cult, in return for $10,000, they find themselves in a struggle for their lives. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-385497369.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81789More details Price: $30.00 -
WHAT SALMON KNOW: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (1999). First edition - The first collection of short stories (second book) by this novelist and television screen writer. "The subject of these stories are all working men, part of a culture that is no longer relevant in a shinier America. Reid gives the reader an American landscape where blue-collar manliness is a value besieged from without and corrupted from within." 226 pp,
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81772More details Price: $20.00 -
WHAT SALMON KNOW: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories (second book) by this novelist and television screen writer. "The subject of these stories are all working men, part of a culture that is no longer relevant in a shinier America. Reid gives the reader an American landscape where blue-collar manliness is a value besieged from without and corrupted from within." SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-385491212.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81771More details Price: $30.00 -
HYPERBOREAL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2013). First edition - A collection of poetry by an Inupiaq writer with family from King Island and Marys Igloo, Alaska. King Island was the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, selected by Arthur Sze. A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. 63 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81270More details Price: $16.50











