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To the Top of the Continent Discovery, Exploration And Adventure In Sub-Arctic Alaska. The First Ascent Of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906
by Cook, Frederick A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Chehalis, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 321 pp with illustrations from photographs, in original green cloth with mountain vignette in white on front board, top edge gilt. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, some tiny white paint specks on spine, foxing to fore edge of text block and front matter. Binding tight, text clean. Cook famously claimed to have reached the summit of McKinley (on the second of the expeditions described here) but was later proved to have lied and used a deceptive angle to create a fake summit photo. Arctic Bib. 3390; Neate C123.
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- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22750
- Title
- To the Top of the Continent Discovery, Exploration And Adventure In Sub-Arctic Alaska. The First Ascent Of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906
- Author
- Cook, Frederick A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Alaska McKinley Denali
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering; Alaska;
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About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
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