Anchorage Daily News, First Edition (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. b/w Illustrations (illustrator). First Thus. In pictorial wraps, 4to, 53pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2001. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardback book. No dust jacket. A square, tight and clean copy with a light scratch on front cover. 176pp. Sm 8vo. (V).

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Product Description Sure, Chicago Cubs history is filled with heartache - the team s nickname is, after all, the Lovable Losers, gained from a century-plus-long championship drought. But ask any Bleacher Bum or die-hard Cubs fan and you'll be told that despite all of the losing, the journey has been a lot of fun. For the Love of the Chicago Cubs is all about that ride. Published for the browser, the book is jam-packed with fascinating Cubs lore, including illuminating profiles of legends like Mordecai Three Finger Brown, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg, Ferguson Jenkins, and Mark Grace.Award-winning Chicago sportswriter Lew Freedman delivers a treasure trove of: Fascinating Cubs anecdotes Thrilling Cubs photographs Hilarious and poignant quotes from Cubs players, managers, and owners Entertaining Cubs quizzes Informative Cubs triviaWhether you're a casual or hardcore fan, you're bound to enjoy this fun-filled romp through great games, incredible moments, and unforgettable players. Only sitting in the dugout at Wrigley Field provides a better view of the Cubs than For the Love of the Chicago Cubs. About the Author Lew Freedman is a Chicago-based sportswriter who has more than 250 journalism awards and 35 books to his credit. A graduate of Boston University, Freedman has a master's degree from Alaska Pacific University. He has worked on the staffs of the Chicago Tribune, the Anchorage Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other newspapers. He and his wife Debra live in Bolingbrook, Illinois.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. [15]2-281p. White paper with a blue cloth spine printed in silver. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, silver lettering bright, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket Chris and bright and the price clipped. Author's signature appears under her printed name on the title page, but I believe the signature is printed. "Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air--and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery, and funerals are community affairs. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for the local newspaper. Whether contemplating the mysterious death of eccentric Speedy Joe, who never took off his hat--not even for a haircut; observing the Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival; or ice skating in the shadow of glacier-studded mountains, Lende's warm, folksy style brings us inside her busy life. We meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local lumber yard, their five children, and a colorful assortment of friends and neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fisherman, Tlingit Indians, and volunteer undertakers, as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land." [From publisher description].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. text clean and unmarked. title page has words "from Georgia & Ore." written in upper corner. binding tight. very light wear to covers.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good -- Very Good -- Volume I -- Clean and bright in glossy pictorial cover, no dust jacket if issed -- Indexed and photography throughout.

First edition - First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. INSCRIBED by Conn on the title page "For Bill, a loyal fan and true Alaskan." Selections from the author's column in the Anchorage Daily News - the author is a professor of justice at the University of Alaska who had lived in Anchorage and Fairbanks for 7 years at the time this was published. 152 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (spot on upper edge of front cover.).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Stated 1st Ed. 176 p. B/w illus. B/w illus. on paper over boards. Very good condition.; Wide 12mo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. GIFT QUALITY very good condition paperback clean pages gently read 191 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; ISBN:0805014713 ; LCCN:91-41150 ; blue cloth, no dustjacket ; Contents: Forest primeval (English Bay) -- Spirit world (Cape Prince of Wales ) -- People of Kauwerak (Teller) -- Return of the native (Golovin) -- Indian Country (Tetlin) -- Animal powers (Bristol Bay) -- Red Devil (Sleetmute) -- Icons (Lower Kalskag) -- River people (Tuluksak) -- Yupiit Nation (Akiachak) -- The wake of the unseen object (Black River) ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; "The travels in this book were originally undertaken for a series of stories that appeared in the Anchorage Daily News under the title, "Northcountry Journal". ; Book.

Staplebound. Condition: Very good. First Printing. The Calendar measures 9 by 12 inches. Shrink wrap cover (torn at top edge and partially torn at right side, to accommodate the author's signature in gold lettering on the front cover). Chad Carpenter (born ca. 1968) is an American cartoonist, best known for his comic panel Tundra. Carpenter launched the strip in the Anchorage Daily News in his home state of Alaska in 1991. Since then, he has self-syndicated it to over 330 newspapers, an unusually high amount for strips in self-syndication. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. From Nature's Favorite Newspaper Comic Strip! Created in 1991, Tundra is published on a daily basis, always in one of two formats: Either a single-panel gag comic or a three-panel strip with regular characters and more complex humor. This alternation is similar to that used in Mother Goose and Grimm and Non Sequitur. Unlike those strips, Tundra tends to deal with wildlife and the outdoors; its humor appeals to all demographics, young & old. Tundra also occasionally uses reader-submitted ideas. Since 2007, the strip has been syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate. It now appears in newspapers in the United States, Canada, Jamaica, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago. He has published and sold 20 Tundra books and has also produced extensive amounts of other Tundra-branded merchandise. In May 2008, Tundra was named the best newspaper panel of 2007 by the National Cartoonists Society. In August 2008, Carpenter was presented with a legislative citation honoring him as Alaska's Cartoon Laureate. It was presented to him by Wes Keller, a member of the Alaska House of Representatives. A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system. A calendar can also mean a list of planned events, such as a court calendar.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 1985 FIRST EDITION. Original staple-bound stiff paperback with b/w photo on front cover. The book is in excellent condition with usual sunning to spine, clean covers, no tears, no chips, no crease marks, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The book measures 277mm tall x 213m, and has 64 pages, many fine b/w photos (Washburn & Mozee). Lloyd's account as told to W.F.Thompson, editor of Fairbanks Daily News-Miner; Washburn photo essay of route; Hudson Stuck's account of seeing flag; Billy Taylor's interview by Norman Bright; Farquhar's analysis. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. Disbound wraps. 33, [1] page blank. Half title present. Light toning and scattered brown spots to the print. Evans 9269; Sabin 79430. From wikipedia: The siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, as part of the Seven Years' War. After Spain abandoned its former policy of neutrality by signing the family compact with France, resulting in a British declaration of war on Spain in January 1762, the British government decided to mount an attack on the important Spanish fortress and naval base of Havana, with the intention of weakening the Spanish presence in the Caribbean and improving the security of its own North American colonies. A strong British naval force consisting of squadrons from Britain and the West Indies, and the military force of British and American troops it convoyed, were able to approach Havana from a direction that neither the Spanish governor nor the Admiral expected and were able to trap the Spanish fleet in the Havana harbour and land its troops with relatively little resistance. The Spanish authorities decided on a strategy of delaying the British attack until the strength of the city's defences and the onset of seasonal rains inflicting tropical diseases would significantly reduce the size of the British force via disease, along with the start of hurricane season would force the British fleet to seek a safe anchorage. However, the city's main fortress, the Morro Castle was overlooked by a hill that the governor had neglected to fortify; the British installed batteries there and bombarded the fortress daily with heavy shelling. The fortress eventually fell after the officer in charge of Morro Castle, Luis Vicente de Velasco, was mortally wounded by a stray bullet. The capture of Morro Castle led to the eventual fall of the rest of the fortifications and the surrender of the city, the remaining garrison, and the naval forces present, before the hurricane season began. The surrender of Havana led to substantial rewards for the British naval and military leaders and smaller amounts of prize money for other officers and men. The Spanish governor, Admiral and other military and civil office holders were court-martialled upon their return to Spain and punished for their failures to conduct a better defence and allowing the Spanish fleet present to fall intact into the hands of the British. Havana remained under British occupation until February 1763, when it was returned to Spain under the 1763 Treaty of Paris that formally ended the war.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original archive. This archive includes a bound volume and several leaves of a handwritten, personal diary in the form of a ship's logbook kept by US Navy officer Robert W. McCleery, starting at New York on September 30, 1871 and ending in November, 1872. Also present: a photographic carte-de-visite of McCleery, a couple of Civil War-era telegrams, a family letter, several pieces of paper ephemera found tipped-in or laid into the log, and various handwritten lists of equipment and instructional notes for a running a steamship. Total: (3) + (8) + (6) + (91) pages of entries. Dates on the loose leaves range from Nov. 20 1871 to Jan. 9, 1872. The logbook covers nearly the full year of voyaging from January through November, 1872. Robert W. McCleery died in 1863, a casualty of the Civil War. The logbook was continued by his son, Robert McCleery. Robert W. does not clearly state his position aboard the "Ossipee." Internal evidence reveals that he executes the duties of a quartermaster, having charge of stores, rigging, supplies, and repairs. McCleery also has occasional command duties as when the ship's captain asks for his opinion based on his experience as a seaman. The main part of the logbook records the USS Ossipee's voyage that circumnavigates South America and returns to New York City. Ports of call are: Callao, Lima, Pisco, Chimbote, Paita, Valparaiso, Patagonia, Smyths Channel, Connors Cove Island. Eden Harbour, English Narrows; various anchorages in southern Chilean islands, Straits of Magellan, Rio de Janeiro, and New York. McCleery tells of shore visits at various South American ports, various gun and ship's drills, duties onboard; crew changes, ship sightings, fishing expeditions, ship & shore visitations, occasional news from home in the U.S., the varied entertainments of seamen at sea and on shore, recording of winds & weather, miles made and the vicissitudes of a sailing ship making way at sea. He also notes survey duties; coaling of the ship at various locations; humorous incidents; courts martial of several men; fights and deaths on shore and aboard ship; a "man overboard" incident at sea, with the attempted rescue documented here, resulting in one seaman being awarded the Medal of Honor; much homesickness, including piteous sadness regarding the death of a child; sightings of various birds, fish, and whales; the "Cape Region"; storms, damage, repairs and upkeep to the ship; native peoples; storm snowflakes "as large as a man's hand" and cold so severe that ink needs to be warmed before writing; taking aboard a shipwrecked crew & chief officer; the appearance of the King of Brazil at Rio harbor; and other noteworthy daily events. // Random excerpts follow. Sept. 30, 1871 "At daylight I arrived in New York [from Washington], hungry and tired with one dollar in my pocket, just enough to pay for my baggage. .Went to the Navy Yard where I soon filled my pocket with a hundred dollars. Then to Pier 42 . At 1:30 Steamed out." Oct. 8, 1871: "U.S. Mail Steamer Henry Chauncey. This is the last day on board this Steamer and now at sundown the land is in sight, so early in the morning we will be in port." Oct. 9, 1871: "Aspenwall.At an early hour I heard the engine bells sounding.I find the place looking about the same as when I was last here. 'All aboard' at 8, and away we go for Panama." Oct. 10th: "Panama.the old Aspenwall Hotel is in ruins having some years ago been burnt down." Oct. 11th: "The Minstrel troup which came from New York.gave a sort of performance in the Hotel parlor." Oct. 31: A man who killed a Mail Steamer officer was brought ashore at Panama City. ".but as the severest penalty is seven years in the 'chain gang' with an every day opportunity to escape." Nov. 10: He is aboard the Mail Steamer "Peru" bound for Callao, along with an elephant and other exhibition animals, etc. Dec. 21: Anica. May 25, 1872: Guanapia Islands.Many Chinese enslaved there in the shipping industry. May 30: Ordered home to New York. Half the crew got.