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Whitehorse, Yukon: Wolf Creek Classics. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. [2001]. Soft cover. xvii, 289 pp., [11] B&W photo plates, plus B&W frontis. Reprint of the 1928 tale of a dog-musher durking the Klondike and Nome Gold Rushes.

1928 hardcover edition. Yellow cloth binding with black embossed text on front, and black cloth repairs (see picture). X-library book with stamps and codes inside appropriate to the era. Interior boards have been repaired with a brown paper, which saved the spine. Age tanning and foxing and stains on the leafs, some marker used to eliminate some of the library code I believe, but nothing to interfer with the ability to read the book. 289-pages plus many full-page photo illustrations. This collectible book is in fair condition, and it has been cleaned and repaired by the library.

A DOG-PUNCHER ON THE YUKON, Houghton Mifflin, 1928, first edition, a vg/vg+ copy in the publishers original yellow cloth binding with fading and slight foxing to the spine and some soiling to the covers. Seven of the twelve photographic illustrations are by Asahel Curtis.

Boston ; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Originally published 1928. 8 vo,. (22 cm). cloth, dust jacket, pp. xii, [2], 289 pages, frontis, and [3] leaves of plates : dust jacket chipped at edges with some minor lossses, spine of d.j. darkening, scarce in dust jacket.in protective mylar jacket,.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. RARE -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on end page following half-title page - " To an old and tried friend Dana Coman. Arthur Walden Sept. 1/30". In 1927 Walden helped train sled dogs and drivers for Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Antarctic expedition, and he led the dog-sled freighting of the supplies from the ships to Byrd's base camp "Little America". Walden later became the original breeder of the Chinook sled dog. In 1930 Walden, considered to be one of the most respected and heralded pioneers of the Klondike and Alaskan gold rushes, was presented a photographic album by Admiral Byrd that contained over 500 images of the Antarctic expedition of 1928-30. Dana Coman (Dr Francis Dana Coman (1895-1952) ) was with Byrd’s first and second expeditions to Antarctica and was a personal doctor of Admiral Byrd. He later had a mountain named after him by Finn Ronne of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947-48. Later… Read More