Wpa [Federal Writers' Project] Colby, Merle — ALASKA; Last American Frontier
Very Good- The MacMillan Company First Edition Boards with light wear to extremities. Gilt lettering a bit faded. Endpapers tanned. Map in rear pocket missing.; The definitive source on Alaska, before it became a state. The only book in the American Guide Series to credit a sole author (the Idaho guide credits Vardis Fisher as editor) , no less an authority than the 'Saturday Review' called it 'the most important and descriptive book about Alaska in print' and that designation may still be true.; American Guide Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 427 pages New York