THE LAST GRAND ADVENTURE

McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977, believe 1^st.  ISBN 0-07-008014-3.  Large hard cover, 232 pages including Index.  Good; brown boards with gold lettering on spine; corners and spine ends bumped with some wear, some shelf wear; binding sound with headbands; slight bow to book; bit of foxing on outer page block.  Dust jacket with price intact has edge and cover wear, some stains and age-toning, short edge tears and small losses at corners.  Map end papers; prior owner’s name on verso of FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with occasional very small age spot in some fore-edge margins; illustrated throughout with over 500 historic black & white photos.  ‘Within weeks, 100,000 men, women, and children were on their way to the strangest boom town in history:  Dawson City, on the boggy flatlands where the Klondike meets the Yukon River. … For everyone who took part in it, read about it, or dreamed of it, this was the Last Grand Adventure, the ultimate human saga in the conquest of North America.’ (from jacket flaps)