Mitchell Brig Gen William (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Military Service Publishing Company, 1931. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. First Edition. 312p. Photos. Jacket priced. Fine/Near Fine Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st. ed. 312p. Photos. Fine/Very Good Copy.

Illustrated stiff wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. Pp. xi, 111. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of historic photographs. Maps, including one fold-out. Bibliography. Index. Bound in glossy stiff wrappers illustrated with black-and-white photos. Brief gift inscription on the title page. Recounts the author's experiences, 1901-1903, in establishing Alaska's military telegraph line. Below-freezing weather was the most severe detriment to his men. While the author was firm in his prohibition of alcohol, he waxes favorably about Perry Davis Pain Killer, "the greatest medicine ever invented for the North." Per Mitchell, "I do not know the ingredients, other than it is about half alcohol and contains some laudanum, but I would hazard a guess at opium, red pepper, turpentine and tabasco juice." He would give it to his men suffering frostbite.An unaccountably scarce first edition. Reprinted in 1989, this first printing is presented here in a bright, fresh copy. .…