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Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. This book is in good condition. The signatures are stapled together. There is no binding. It is a Reprint of Senate Executive Document No. 70, Fifty-third Congress, Second Session. Whole Number 215. The first and last pages have yellowed with age. The interior is clean and bright. The illustrations and photographs are wonderful. The first few pages have a "V" shaped cut along the outer edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Government Studies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, Leather bound spine and corners. Small rips to edge of corners. Gold lettering on spine, "Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, 1898." Nonpareil marble paper with red, blue, white, and purple on cover as well as end sheets and fore edges. Frontispiece photograph of the Lapland family and their tents. List of illustrations included many photographs. Includes: Map of Norway, fold out color map of lapland, and very large fold out map of Alaska, all in excellent condition without tears or discoloration. 48 pages of regular text including statistics, suggestion for distribution, purchasing, personnel and buildings. Large appendix includes reports, letters, and telegrams of various congress appointed officials for the project. Hand glued in 1921 newspaper clipping, "Reindeer Meat Soon Will be Staple" proposes the question of the potential popularity and success as a result of introducing Reindeer into Alaska. 55th Congress, 3d session, Senate, Document No. 34. An excellent condition copy of this interesting publication.