Title: Alaskan-Yukon: Trophies won and lost Author: Young, G.O. Place: Huntington, West Virginia Publisher: Standard Publications Date: 1947 Description: Illustrated from numerous photographs. (8vo), original decorative boards, illustrated dust jacket, map endpapers. Inscribed by the author at the half title: "With best wishes to Lee Richardson - from one big game hunter, and lover of the great open spaces to another - G.O. Young." The author, state senator from West Virginia, was one of a hunting expedition of three men who went to Alaska in 1919, and the trip was so arduous--especially the trip down the White River--that one of the men, Dr. Evans, died soon after their return. The guide, Eugene Jacquot, later guided General R.E. Woods, Wild Bill Donovan, Nelson Rockefeller and other prominent figures safely through the wilderness. Laid in is a copy of a typed letter from the author, detailing why there was a lengthy delay in the reissue of the volume, which was originally published in 1928. With the pictorial bookplate of hunter/author Lee Richardson. Scarce. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to jacket, rubbing to extremities; gift inscriptions on front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 286811
Title: Alaskan-Yukon: Trophies won and lost Author: Young, G.O. Place: Huntington, West Virginia Publisher: Standard Publications Date: 1947 Description: Illustrated from numerous photographs. (8vo), original decorative boards, illustrated dust jacket, map endpapers. Inscribed by the author at the half title: "With best wishes to Lee Richardson - from one big game hunter, and lover of the great open spaces to another - G.O. Young." The author, state senator from West Virginia, was one of a hunting expedition of three men who went to Alaska in 1919, and the trip was so arduous--especially the trip down the White River--that one of the men, Dr. Evans, died soon after their return. The guide, Eugene Jacquot, later guided General R.E. Woods, Wild Bill Donovan, Nelson Rockefeller and other prominent figures safely through the wilderness. Laid in is a copy of a typed letter from the author, detailing why there was a lengthy delay in the reissue of the volume, which was originally published in 1928. With the pictorial bookplate of hunter/author Lee Richardson. Scarce. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to jacket, rubbing to extremities; gift inscriptions on front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 286811
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