Search Results: Titles starting with K from David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA

Cambridge: The University Press, 1915. First Edition. Very Good. Edward S. Curtis. Limited edition [7.625x5.5in 19x14.2cm image, 12.5x9.5in 23x17cm plate]; Brown ink photograph on Japanese tissue with printed title and 1914 copyright, mounted on Val Gelder paper by chine-colle method, protected by tissue guard, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, plates are not numbered; Light age-toning to fore edge. [Curtis Legacy Foundation, Howes 965] CS. Image - Kaloqutsuis - Qagyuhl - Ceremonial mask representing a raven The Kwakiutl "The Kwakiutl are one of several Indigenous First Nations that inhabit the western coast of British Columbia, Canada, from central and northern Vancouver Island to the adjacent mainland coast. Kwakiutl bands consist of four clans: the Raven, Killer Whale, Eagle, and Wolf clans ... each claiming their own ancestor, chiefs, oral histories, and entitlement to certain lands, religious rites, and songs and dances associated with particular family names and masks." (from Milwaukee… Read More

Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1958. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo [10.5x7in]; [2], 126 pp., Aqua blue cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine, illustration of river steamboat on front, illustrations and maps on end papers, all edges trimmed; light blue dust jacket with dark blue lettering on front and spine, multi color illustration of dog teams and sledges; Minor shelf wear to cover edges with slight fading along top edges, text block age toned, back hinge cracked, repair to cover attachment; Some shelf wear to dust jacket with soiling, chips to top front edge and bottom edge and spins, rubbing to surfaces and edges, spine slightly darken. Eric A. Hegg (1867 - 1947) was a Swedish-American photographer famous for his portrayals of the life and people in Skagway, Bennett and Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush 1897-1901. Hegg himself participated in prospecting expeditions with his brother and fellow Swedes while documenting the daily life and hardships of the gold… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2021. First Edition, 1st Printing. Fine/Fine. SIGNED, limited to 500 copies [10.5x7.5in], xxvi, 652 pp., [2] colophon, over 650 entries on books, maps, pamphlets and other ephemera, 17 images and illustrations, abbreviations, location symbols, references consulted and index; Dark orange cloth covers with gilt lettering in black ink field on spine, gilt illustration of snowshoes, boots and pick axe on front, all edges trimmed, speckled biege end papers, with publisher issued plain white dust jacket; Negligible shelf wear, light pencil notations throughout, with prospectus and the author's January 2018 essay on the book's development from the Book Club of California Quarterly, volume lxxxiii.[BCC #241]. Gary F. Kurutz bibliography on the Klondike and Alaska is extensive in entries and the summaries of the contents of many entries. This bibliography is a fitting "bookend" to Kurutz's 1997 'The California Gold Rush'. These bibliographies are important… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2021. First Edition, 1st Printing. Fine/Fine. SIGNED, limited to 500 copies [10.5x7.5in], xxvi, 652 pp., [2] colophon, over 650 entries on books, maps, pamphlets and other ephemera, 17 images and illustrations, abbreviations, location symbols, references consulted and index; Dark orange cloth covers with gilt lettering in black ink field on spine, gilt illustration of snowshoes, boots and pick axe on front, all edges trimmed, speckled beige end papers, with publisher issued plain white dust jacket; Negligible shelf wear, with prospectus. [BCC #241]. Gary F. Kurutz bibliography on the Klondike and Alaska is extensive in entries and the summaries of the contents of many entries. This bibliography is a fitting "bookend" to Kurutz's 1997 'The California Gold Rush'. These bibliographies are important contributions to Western Americana and Alaskan history. This book is an essential reference to the collectors, researchers, librarians, and booksellers on Alaska… Read More

Chicago: Monroe Book Co, 1897. First Edition, Later Printing. Very Good. [8.25x5.75in]; app. 53 pp., [1] Notice, [2] frontispiece illustration and title page, [4] partial of tabled of contents and maps and illustration list, 5 plates with illustrations from images, 8 plates line illustrations, excerpt from book 13-43 pp., [9] advertisement and subscriber agreement with unused lined subscriber pages, back end paper has paste down cloth sample of spine; Brown cloth covers with black outlined yellow lettering and black lettering in border yellow field on front, illustration of miner with pack and walking stick on snow field; back cover of snow field with black outlined white and yellow lettering; Some shelf wear to covers and edges with heavy rubbing and some soiling. [Kurutz 128 and 128g] CS. The Chicago Record Newspaper was quick to gather and publish an extensive guidebook to Alaska and Klondike gold seekers. From Kurutz, "... arguably the best known of all Klondike guidebooks. ... Put together… Read More

New York: American Technical Book Company, 1897. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Good. [7.25x4.75in]; 92 pp., [4] [Chapter V. Miners Luck]; Tan paper wrappers with three staple binding, red lettering on front with colored illustration of large gold nugget, red lettered advertisements on rear, all edges trimmed; Handling wear to thin fragile covers with age toning, soiling, stains and large chips along edges of front and rear covers with no loss of text, spine missing part of top and bottom. [Kurutz Klondike 313b, Tourville 2581, Smith 5638, Wickersham 4344, Arctic Biblio 9547] CS. Joseph Francis "Joe" Ladue (1855-1901) was an American of French-Canadian that was an a western miner, engineer and adventurer and founder of Dawson City during the Klondike stampede to the Yukon and Alaska in 1897. He moved to the Northwest in 1881 to explore mining and business opportunities in the Alaska interior. In 1893, he established a trading post on the Yukon at Sixtymile River (the distance upriver from… Read More