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199489357Paris : Berg International 1994. 240x145mm. broch. Couverture rabats. Exemplaire l'tat de neuf. 604 Berg International unknown
195962286Denver CO: Fred A. Rosenstock The Old West Publishing Co. 1959. 4to. 221 1 pp. Title in red & black frontisp. 3 folding maps 1 large chart of travel folded in rear pocket. Brick-red publisher’s cloth illustration vignette printed on front cover gilt lettering on spine partially uncut & unopened w/ d.j. slight scuffing upper right corner minor chipping dustsoiling couple closed tears & creasing NF/G copy. First edition of this exceptional effort by Morgan to present the Overland diary of Pritchard along with two previously unpublished maps of the 1849 gold rush miners by J. Goldsborough Bruff and the exceptional and immense chart tracing the emigration of no less than 162 diarists across the South Pass route to California demarcating 80 important points along the trail. Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Co., hardcover
190461076Chicago & New York: Union Book & Publishing Company ca. 1904. Folio. 12 x 13.75 in. pp. 201-216. With photo illustrations throughout. Illustrated printed khaki-coloured softcovers edgewear chipping to head of spine still VG copy. First edition thus of this installment in the bi-monthly “America Her Grandeur†released by Union Book during the opening decade of the 20th Century. This installment focuses on the Alaska and Yukon Territory with excellent gold mining Alaska & Yukon steamships and railroads and more. Although undated the work does specifically mention that the Tenana Railroad will be started in 1905 and that the gold rush had just recently launched with most miners trekking into the Cleary Fairbanks and Ester Creeks in the Fall of 1903. Worldcat locates 3 copies U of GA Clarke Hist. Lib. UTX Austin. Union Book & Publishing Company, paperback
196763083Portland OR: Metropolitan Press 1967. Thick 8vo. 4 419 5 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo illusts. Gray-black cloth blue lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of gold miner minor scuffing toning to fore-edges 1 closed tear upper fore-edge front cover price-clipped still NF/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. Alaska Centennial edition of this rousing first-hand account of the early days of the Klondike Gold Rush much of it drawn from the journals and notes of her father and grand father Edward Lung and Clement Lung who joined the stampede from Tacoma WA to the Klondike via Skagway Chilkoot Pass and the Yukon River. He met many of the famed Gold Rush figures including Joaquin Miller and despite the hardships kept a daily diary used in this memoir. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 339b. Metropolitan Press, hardcover
19508858Philadelphia: The Drake Press 1950. Staplebound. Near fine. 16mo 23pp. illustrated. Near fine in the publisher's stapled wraps with only very mild edgewear. A surprisingly scarce booze-centric periodical which appears to be geared towards bartenders or bar owners. Several mildly lewd comics and a number of drink recipes make up the bulk of the contents along with a few liquor advertisements. OCLC records just three partial holdings for "The Jigger" at U. of Rochester Ohio State and Virginia Tech. Scarce in commerce. The Drake Press unknown
1980016762Ames Associates Inc. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8-1/2 x 11 Spiral-Bound Softcover; 159pp; Covers clean & bright text unmarked binding is tight VG condition. Program plan for the Columbia River Gorge urban outreach prepared in March 1980. Illustrated with photos & color foldout maps. Ames Associates, Inc. paperback
1987USD_9780898627251GuilforPub. 1987. 1st. Hardcover. UsedLikeNew/UsedLikeNew. GuilforPub. hardcover
197555556San Francisco: The Figures 1975. First edition. Wraps. near fine. Brown wrappers. Limited to 200 copies. The Figures unknown
1977018152<p>Skamania WA: Tahlkie Books 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 279pp; Covers clean & bright previous owner's rubber stamp to title page text unmarked binding is sound VG condition. Scarce vintage history of Klickitat County in Washington State from the first discovery to the late 1800s. Illustrated with photos & maps.</p> Tahlkie Books paperback
1903010360Seattle: Denny-Coryell Co. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 483pp; Ex-Library with library binding FFEP missing markings to first few pages pocket remnants to rear endpaper a few repairs to text pages show slight toning a few tears to text pages text unmarked binding is tight reading copy Fair condition. Account of pioneer life on Puget Sound Washington by clergyman of the Puget Sound Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Illustrated with photos & line drawings. Denny-Coryell Co. hardcover
19690006632Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1969. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good . John R. Neill. Quarto 239 pages blue cloth with small holes as if made by a stapler some inside but most are on the covers; with some crayoning scriibbles before p. 16 and on the endpapers <br/><br/>Baum wrote this in response to certain of his fans who "implored me to 'write something about the mermaids'." The first in the Borderland of Oz series. Illustrated by John R. Neill: here in black-and-white only. Reilly & Lee hardcover
19386ptorSone and Cox Ltd 1938. 2nd edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Name of the previous owner. 2nd edition 1938. Publication of 107 pages. There is gilt on the front of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binging is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Sone and Cox Ltd hardcover
1912113441San Francisco: Blue and Gold Brewing Co 1912. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Covers worn and soiled. Interior foxed. Blue and Gold Brewing Co hardcover
1982003841Fairfield Washington U.S.A.: Ye Galleon Press 1982. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo cloth. <br/><br/>Considered among the most authentic of Indian Captivity narratives. "After being stolen as a lad in northwestern Ohio successively traded to various western tribes and finally adopted by the Snakes he wandered with them as far as California and Oregon . most remarkable - Howes B736." Ye Galleon Press hardcover
197816184New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10.2x7.6x0.9in. light foxing to edges of text block small bookstore label at bottom of front pastedown dust jacket with tiny tear at bottom of front panel and tiny tear at top of back panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>Illustrated with drawings from original sketchbooks of designs more than three hundred black and white photographs and four color plates. <br>296pp 2.57lb 10.2x7.6x0.9in Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
1930H21705Hollywood: MGM 1930. Fine. 2 real photo postcards signed by Chingwah Lee excellent condition light curve like usual. MGM unknown
198042840Alameda CA: City of Alameda. 1980. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good. Text is clean. Paper cover shows wear. Cover letter from City of Alameda presenting this draft of the final report along with announcement of the public meetings to discuss it included. This is a draft copy #69. . City of Alameda unknown
197918480Mt Hope Washington: Centennial Committee 1979 1983 1987. Loose-leaf. Fine. History of the farming town & community south of Spokane. Book is complete in a loose-leaf binder. No date on the first section of approximately 100 page. The second section 1983 is a little shorter and then a longer third section 1987. Map photos. <br/><br/> Centennial Committee unknown
196049534Derby CT: Monarch Books 1960. First printing. Very good plus. First edition of this classic sleaze pulp a gritty fictional autobiography in the Moll Flanders mode by a pseudonymous Lawrence Block classed up with a serious-minded afterword by a real psychiatrist. 7'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers. All edges tinted red. MB 508. A Monarch Human Behavior Book. 140 pages followed by publisher's advertisements. Minor soil to page 5. Light edgewear and spine creasing. Monarch Books unknown
191310107Meriden: International Silver Company 1913. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 8.5x5.7x0.7in. ownership signature of the artist Glenn Tilley Morse on front pastedown. <br>Illustrated with 33 plates and 11 pages of figures. <br>115pp 0.93lb 8.5x5.7x0.7in International Silver Company hardcover
1974023421University of Minnesota Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1974. Cloth. 0816607192 . 527 pages clean copy NOT ex-library rubbing and some minor tears to dustjacket.; 8vo . University of Minnesota Press hardcover
1914043754New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1914 Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st US Edition. "Ramona" is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots-Native American orphan girl who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis the novel became immensely popular. "In this volume is related for the first time the true story of Helen Hunt Jacksons great American Novel Ramona." The facts and fictions of the romance are distinctively designated and its inspiration and purpose disclosed. The originals of the characters of the novel are identified and their true names given." Dedication page reads: "To the memory of Helen Hunt Jackson the most brilliant impetuous and thoroughly individual woman of American literature" Illustrated with contemporary photographs. 255p. plates frontis. glossary of Spanish terms. Blind-stamped green cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Some shelf wear to edges and head and foot of spine front hinge starting and a few pages with water stains at front and rear otherwise a neat copy. Dodge Publishing Company hardcover
1963616417New York: G. Schirmer Inc 1963. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Light bumping to the corners very good or better. For high voice and piano. Plate number 45274. G. Schirmer, Inc unknown
1990019491<p>Portland OR: Oregon Historical Society Press 1990. Softcover. Very Good. 226pp; Covers clean & bright text unmarked binding is tight VG condition. Signed by Authors. History of the high tech industry in Portland Oregon from 1945 to 1986.</p> Oregon Historical Society Press paperback
1973E05572 volumes. 476 pages with color frontispiece and illustrations; 435 pages with color frontispiece illustrations bibliography appendices and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition.<br /><br />Author and historian Clifford M. Drury was born on an Iowa farm in 1897. From the 1930s until the time of his death in 1984 he exhaustively researched and studied the lives and effects of the Old Oregon missionaries. His energy and enthusiasm for understanding missionary history and American Western expansion has left an extensive and extraordinary written legacy. In this two-volume set Drury thoroughly revisits the story of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman the impact during their eleven years at Waiilatpu and their significant roles in the great migration into the Pacific Northwest that would follow.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Spine ends slightly bumped else a very good to fine copy. Arthur H Clark Company hardcover