Chitina Past, the Late Forties [signed]

From the back cover: 'Larry Clarke came to the 49th State from New Jersey. He arrived in Cordova in 1947 with his mother, sister and aviator step-father. Larry worked for his mother in the ghost town of Chitina in summers and boarded at the Windsor Hotel in Cordova while completing high school in the winter..' This book tells the story of his life in Alaska.