By Archie Shiels

Signed and Numbered

Bellingham, WA: Pacific American Fisheries, Inc. 1949. Hardcover Near Fine/No Dust Jacket 10 3/4" x 8 1/2" (12) + 116 pp. Blue boards with gilt cover title. Page contents as sheets typewritten on one side only. Limited edition of 125 copies, this being #8. Signed by author on limitation page.

Covers bright and unworn, edges and corners sharp, gilt title bright, binding tight, page contents clean. A Near Fine copy.

Contents in seven chapters, without table of contents or index; 1.) Untitled - (Introduction of Vitus Bering as discoverer of Alaska); 2.) The Discovery; 3.) Early Voyages of the Russian Hunters and the Voyages of the Foreign Traders and Explorers; 4.) Untitled - (History of the Russian America Company); 5.) Baranof the Builder (career of Alexander Andreevich Baranof); 6.) History of the Russian Church in Alaska; 7.) The Russians in California - Fort Ross. Plus article-length sections on the history of Sitka, the purchase of Alaska, the treaty between the US and Russia under the Presidency of Andrew Johnson, etc.