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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA. 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good+; scattered splash spots to textblock edges; shelfwear to bottom of boards and textblock; bumped tips. DJ: Fair; missing section of spine at tail; wear to flap edges; closed tears, chipping. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. 352 pp 8vo. These are the letters of a young woman, Emily McCorkle, who married an army assistant surgeon, Dr. Jenkins FitzGerald, and was thereafter ordered to Sitka, Alaska in 1874. These are the letters of her trip to Sitka via the East Coast, Isthmus of Panama by rail, and then by ship to Portland and on to Sitka where they lived for four years. These letters tell of the methods of travel, the hardships of life on the northern frontier, and woman's viewpoint of existence in a western fort. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Few light exterior marks; a couple of pages have inking; dust jacket has moderate edge wear. "Letters written by a young woman who followed her husband in the 19th century to Alaska and the Far West - an interesting period in American history". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black lettering on blue covers. 8vo, 352pp. Included with the book is a newspaper clipping announcing the death of Mrs. Elizabeth F. G. Hiestand whose letters from her mother, "The Army Doctor's Wife" were the basis of this book. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end paper. Spine ends chipped.

Good plus or better, light general wear. Cloth Lightly worn, soiled jacket with tears and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Endpapers as maps. No underlinng or highlighting. Pages are all clean, tight and bright. See our photos. See our photos.

1962 VG+/__, No DJ, light foxing on top edge, the letters of Emily McCorkle Fitzgerald during her life as an Army Doctor's wife in the frontier, 352 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 352 pp. Original blue cloth covers, lightly soiled. Spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ lightly rubbed w/ wear to edges. Small, faint dampstain to top corner of rear panel. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. 1st. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over boards, spine stamped in black. Some wear and chipping to extremities of dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. One of the first white-women to live in Alaska less than a decade after the purchase from Russia, suffered desolation during the Arctic winters. Then the FitzGerlads were transferred to Fort Lapawai in present-day Idaho, where they faced the ordeal of Indian uprisings. Bindings tight and square, Text clean, Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 23.5 cm; 8.25 inches tall; 232 pages. Map endpages and frontispiece. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Blue cloth. vii, 352 pages. Photos. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by Laufe. Dust jacket has chips and tears. Contents clean and tight.

1962. (Small 4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 352pp. Map endpapers, frontispiece, photographs. Chipping to dust jacket edges. Letters of Emily Fitzgerald. Locale: Alaska; Old West. (Western America, Indians of N.A.).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (US history, alaska, AS, military life) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.