Description: Seattle:: Superior Publishing Co., [1971].. 127 pp. Frontispiece, numerous additional black-and-white photographs. Index. First edition. An interesting piece of Alaskana - the "biography" of the gunboat Politkovsky, built to safeguard Russia's Alaska fur trade but abandoned to the United States at the time of the Alaska Purchase. The "Polly" had a lengthy but less glamorous second life as a harbor tugboat working the ports of Puget Sound. Brown boards. Slight offset to endpapers, dust jacket price-clipped, else near fine. Item # 590 $30.00   Add to your cart

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