Sklar, Morty, editor
8vo, pp. [6], 45, [3]; several drawings by Cat Doty; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Only three issues of this poetry magazine were published. Contributors included Darrell Gray, Sheila Hildenbrand, Dave Hilton, Allan Kornblum, Michael Lally, Steve Levine, Dave Morice, Steve Toth, Paul Violi, and Cinda Wormley, among others.
Golovnin, VasiliÄ MikhaÄlovich, & Kiril Timofeevich Khliï eï ¡vnikov
First edition, 8vo, 4 parts in 1 (as issued), pp. [4], 126; [4], 130; [2], 174, [2]; [4], 240; 4 folding tables (the first on the number of inhabitants in 1818 in settlements under the Russian-American Company's control, and the last 3 on fur exports from Alaska), plus other tables in the text; one table split at the fold (no loss of text); a very good, sound copy in contemporary Russian leather-backed black cloth; edges rubbed, the front joint professionally restored. Part 3 contains Khliï eï ¡vnikov's notes on America, and includes descriptions of Sitka and Fort Ross. Part 4 contains extracts from descriptions of voyages to Alaska made by Russian and foreign seafarers; there is also a short bibliography of books which have at least some information on Russian-American colonies. "One cannot over-emphasize the importance and the value of these 4 parts of Materials. Part 1, for instance, has Golovnin's Notes regarding the state of the Russian-American Co. in 1818 and similar information on the status of the Aleuts at the same time. In part 2 there are Golovnin's Remarks about Kamchatka and Russian America in 1809-11. The rest of the information is also most valuable. The present work was printed as a supplement to four issues of Morskoi Shornik for 1861. This work was originally published in light brown printed paper wrappers. It is, of course, a great rarity to find it in this state, but it is very rare even if rebound without wrappers in hard cover" (Lada-Mocarski). Arctic Bibliography 18238; Lada-Mocarski 149.
Macgowan, J., Rev
Reprint of the 1883 Trubner edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 611, [1]; near fine in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover an spine. "The Amoy dialect is one of the four principal dialects which, with their varieties, are spoken by at least seven millions of people. These dialects viz: the Chang-chow, the Chin-chew, the Tung-an, and the Amoy, extend to about one hundred miles North, West, and South of Amoy" (introduction).
Tikhmenev, Petr Aleksandrovich
First edition, 4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], v, [1], ii, 386; [2], 66; [2], ii, 388, [2]; [2], 79, [1], 292, x; 3 lithographed portraits printed on India paper and mounted on card with printed captions, a tinted lithographed view of New Arkhangelsk (Sitka) by Smirnov, and four folding maps by Grobov; contemporary full brown Russian leather, gilt titles on spine; one map with old neat repair on the verso, but on the whole this is a very good to near fine sound set. Fort Ross, just north of San Francisco, was built by the Russian-American Company and marked the southernmost outpost of Russian America. The maps include a large folding map of the Russian colonies on the shores of the Pacific, a map of Sakhalin and the Amur estuary, a map of the Aleutian Islands, and a hand-colored folding map of the indigenous dialects of the Russian-American colonies. In his introduction to The Russian-American Company by S. B. Okum (translated from the Russian, Harvard University Press, 1951), B. D. Grakov, Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, refers to Tikhmenev's survey as 'the only monumental work dealing with the activities of the Russian-American Company.' In his own preface, Okun speaks of Tikhmenev's book as the 'only one real work of research'. Although Tikhmenev was obviously bent on presenting a favorable picture of the Russian-American Company, and although he concentrated on the commercial side of its activities, anyone interested in the history of the Company will find his work a mine of original information. Altogether, it is one of the cornerstones of any collection of books on Alaska" (Lada-Mocarski). Howes T-262 (describing an incomplete copy); Lada-Mocarski 150.