THE KLONDIKE & ALASKA GOLD RUSHES: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets Covering the Years 1896-1905
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. Signed and dated by Gary Kurutz on the half-title. The Klondike and the Alaska gold rushes covering the years 1896 to 1905 are considered the last of the great stampedes driven by individuals when much of the economically depressed world was feverish to head to the remote wilderness of Canada's Yukon Territory and the Seward Peninsula of "The Last Frontier". This essential reference work consists of detailed descriptions of 650 titles and an additional 279 editions and issues following the same format as Kurutz's California Gold Rush bibliography (1997). Prospectus laid in. Small quarto: xxvi, 652, [2] pp. with 17 illustrations. Full gold cloth binding, with black and gilt-stamped titling on the spine, and a gilt-stamped design on the front panel. Some light pencil marginalia; else near fine copy in the original plain paper dust jacket. Near fine. Item #80649
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