Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[ALASKA ? GOLD]. PIERCE, W.H. Thirteen Years of Travel and Exploration in Alaska. Edited by J.H. Carruth. Lawrence, Kansas: Journal Publishing Company, 1890. 8vo. (Occasional spotting at margins). 3 wood?engraved plates. Original printed wrappers (extremities toned with few small stains, extreme ends chipped with losses, spine panel partially separated near foot, upper cover separated at front joint). Provenance: early ownership signature on upper cover. FIRST EDITION of ?one of the earliest accounts of gold discovery on the Yukon, by a pioneer of 1886? (Howes). Streeter 3539; Howes P?357; Wickersham 2784.