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High Jinks on the Klondike
by Richard O'Connor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very good-
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
First Edition.
284 p. ; includes Bibliography and Index (p. 275-284).
Blue-green hardcover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, has very minor shelfwear and some bumping to tip and heel of spine, in price-clipped dust jacket which exhibits some edgewear, sunning, and minor soiling (mainly to rear cover) and is housed in an adjustable plastic sleeve. Internally, the book is Near Fine with deckled edge and illustrated endpapers.
The colour dust jacket is by famous illustrator Paul Galdone (1907-1987). Though mostly noted for children's picture books, this early illustration (which appears to have gone unnoticed) depicts the lusty, rough-and-tumble, whisky-soaked life of northern goldminers.
From the dust jacket: Gold mining with a pick and shovel is hard work. In the Far North it also entails being out in all weathers, risk of frostbite, solitude [...] What might have been a sordid and ugly account of predatory villainy becomes in his hands a tragicomedy of the last time America blew off steam.
284 p. ; includes Bibliography and Index (p. 275-284).
Blue-green hardcover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, has very minor shelfwear and some bumping to tip and heel of spine, in price-clipped dust jacket which exhibits some edgewear, sunning, and minor soiling (mainly to rear cover) and is housed in an adjustable plastic sleeve. Internally, the book is Near Fine with deckled edge and illustrated endpapers.
The colour dust jacket is by famous illustrator Paul Galdone (1907-1987). Though mostly noted for children's picture books, this early illustration (which appears to have gone unnoticed) depicts the lusty, rough-and-tumble, whisky-soaked life of northern goldminers.
From the dust jacket: Gold mining with a pick and shovel is hard work. In the Far North it also entails being out in all weathers, risk of frostbite, solitude [...] What might have been a sordid and ugly account of predatory villainy becomes in his hands a tragicomedy of the last time America blew off steam.
Reviews
On Mar 5 2020, a reader said:
An entertaining read about how the Klondike gold rush was not all about deprivation and toil. The author rounded up a variety of incidents, personalities and tall tales that lend humor and color to Klondike era. A highly enjoyable book that will delight any student of Klondike history.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000151
- Title
- High Jinks on the Klondike
- Author
- Richard O'Connor
- Illustrator
- Paul Galdone (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN and New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- gold mines; mining; gold fever; Canada; USA; Yukon; Klondike River Valley; north america; gold discoveries; far north; 19th century; adventurer; gambling; saloons; cowboys; prostitution; Skagway; Dawson; Nome; tragicomedy; rex beach; jack london; joaquin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Biography / Autobiography; Westerns; History; Humour;
- Size
- 23
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