Alaska - Our Northern Wonderland (1923) by Frank G Carpenter - 2007-03-15

Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1923. Good. First ed.; 319 p., immaculate and unmarked anywhere; but blind-stampe name on front end paper; part of Carpenter's World Travel series; includes "123 Illustrations from Original Photographs and Two Maps in Colour;" front gutter cracked but volume square and text block intact; blue pictorial boards with bright gilt lettering and ornamentation are clean with slight bumping on corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Second edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XV, [3], 319, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, dark blue-, and purple-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Splendidly illustrated throughout with 123 b/w photographic reproductions and two folded color maps, this book documents the author's journey to Alaska in the early 1920s. Author, photographer, lecturer and collector of photographs, Frank George Carpenter (1855-1924) was a writer of standard geography textbooks. His series of books called "Carpenter's World Travels" were extremely popular between 1915 and 1930. Dust-jacket partly rubbed and creased along edges. Offsetting to front free endpaper. Previous owner's Ex-libris on inside of front free endpaper (George Lawrence Stimson). Dust-jacket in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition.