Rare Book Liquidation Sale!

Greetings, readers!

It is my pleasure to inform you that I have the honor of handling one special aspect of the James A. Misko estate: rare books.

Sadly, I never had the opportunity to meet Misko — a prolific Anchorage author and co-founder of the Alaska Writers Guild, for which I am currently an officer — but I feel like I have been provided with unique insight into his life as an Alaskan author and bibliophile through his diverse collection.

This is where you come in.

If you have ever been interested in special and first editions of the works of famous American writers like Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling, or former presidents Ben Franklin, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, drop me a line! This is just a teaser of what the Misko estate has to offer, and I have been given permission to sell these books to avid readers and collectors in person as well as online. If you live in Alaska, particularly the Anchorage area, I would be glad to talk with you over the phone and via email about the items available. I still have dozens of books to go through, but if you’re looking for something in particular, let me know and I’ll tell you if I have access to it. If I do, feel free to make me an offer!

I am planning to list most of the titles on eBay (rather than AbeBooks or Biblio, which would cost me more money than I’m willing to spend up front), which you can find here (keep in mind that listing individual books takes a lot of time, and it’s bound to be months before everything I have access to has been listed). Most of the proceeds will be going to his surviving family, so if would like to provide a note of encouragement or thank you with your purchase, feel free.

In the mean time, please enjoy a few more shots from the treasure trove…

Available Books Yet to be Listed

The Pretender	Robert W. Service
The Poisoned Paradise	Robert W. Service
House of Fear	Robert W. Service
Collected Poems of RS	Robert Service
Rhymes of a Roughneck	Robert Service
The Roughneck	Robert W. Service
Bar-Room Ballads	Robert Service
Rhymes for My Rags	Robert Service
Songs of a Sun-Lover	Robert Service
The Master of the Microbe	Robert W. Service
Lyrics of a Low Brow	Robert Service
Rhymes of a Rebel	Robert Service
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone	Robert W. Service
The Song of the Campfire	Robert Service

When God Laughed	Jack London
John Barleycorn	Jack London
Call of the Wild	Jack London
White Fang	Jack London
The House of Pride	Jack London
House of Pride	Jack London
The Sea-wolf	Jack London
A Daughter of the Snows	Jack London
The Son of the Wolf	Jack London
The People of the Abyss	Jack London
Burning Daylight	Jack London
Smoke Bellew	Jack London
Before Adam	Jack London
South Sea Tales	Jack London
The Valley of the Moon	Jack London
Martin Eden	Jack London
The Mutiny of Elsinore	Jack London

Bombs Away	John Steinbeck
The Wayward Bus	John Steinbeck
The Red Pony	John Steinbeck
Cannery Row	John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down	John Steinbeck
The Long Valley	John Steinbeck
East of Eden	John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley in Search of Am.	Steinbeck
The Forgotten Village	Steinbeck
The Red Pony	Steinbeck
A Russian Journal	Steinbeck
Journal of a Novel	Steinbeck
Once There Was a War	Steinbeck
The Short Reign of Pippin IV	Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent	Steinbeck
Sweet Thursday	Steinbeck
America and Americans	Steinbeck

Oliver Cromwell	Theodore Roosevelt
The Roosevelt Book	Teddy (int. Robert Bridges)
On Our Way	Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Deer Family	T Roosevelt, etc
Life of Thomas Hart Benton	Teddy (ed. John T Morse Jr)
Looking Forward	Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Foes of Our Own Household	Theodore Roosevelt
Fear God and Take Your Own Part	Theodore Roosevelt
One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry	John H. Worsham
The Story of A Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson	Edward A. Moore
Hard Tack and Coffee	John D. Billings
Confederate Operations in Canada and NY	John W. Headley
Campaigning with Grant	Horace Porter
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner	John Wilkinson
Reminiscences of the Civil War	John B. Gordon