Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland [Carpenter’s World Travels Series]

Carpenter, Frank G. (Text and Photographs by). Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland [Carpenter’s World Travels Series]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Second edition.

Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4″). XV, [3], 319, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, dark blue-, and purple-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering.

Splendidly illustrated throughout with 123 b/w photographic reproductions and two folded color maps, this book documents the author’s journey to Alaska in the early 1920s.

Author, photographer, lecturer and collector of photographs, Frank George Carpenter (1855-1924) was a writer of standard geography textbooks. His series of books called “Carpenter’s World Travels” were extremely popular between 1915 and 1930.

Dust-jacket partly rubbed and creased along edges. Offsetting to front free endpaper. Previous owner’s Ex-libris on inside of front free endpaper (George Lawrence Stimson). Dust-jacket in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition. g to vg. Hardcover. (42210) $75