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19068656Portland Oregon: The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. Fine with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Original Wraps. Map unfolds to about 1 1/2'x5'. Colored semi-topographical map of the Columbia River with towns etc. Really cool!; Map; 4 1/2x9 1/2" . The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. paperback
192723896New Haven: Yale University Press 1927. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. xx 215pp. Frontispiece numerous illustrations. Very good. Slightest bit of edgewear and bit of "flecking" to the cloth but overall tight clean and attractive. First edition limited to 1000 copies. Interesting association copy for this belonged to the noted writer HAROLD BELL WRIGHT 1872-1944 one of the most popular novelists of the early 20th century author of such bestsellers as "The Shepherd of the Hills" 1907 "The Calling of Dan Matthews" 1909 and "The Winning of Barbara Worth" 1911 -- whose descendants parted with much of HBW's personal library in December 2005. Wright was a serious long-time boating enthusiast a fanatical follower of all things nautical whose hobby was designing and building from scratch his own sailboats. A rather uncommon title with an interesting provenance. Yale University Press hardcover
19137087Portland Oregon: Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co 1913. Fourth Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wrappers. Good. 8vo. Pp. 45 3. Frontis. scenic photograph. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions and one route map. Color illustrated wraps saddle-stapled. Light soiling and stains mellowed crease to back cover staples a tad oxidized trace of oxidized paperclip to head of the frontis. In sum a bright copy. Revised edition of the enticing 1911 tourism booklet lauding sites natural and man-made from Oregon to Alaska. Includes motoring tours and hiking in Mount Rainier National Park plus lakes and streams to cast the lure. The uncredited color illustrations are dreamy; the photography including a few shots by Asahel Curtis presents keen insight into early 1900s life in the Puget Sound Country. SMITH 7721.<p>Preserved in a removable clear archival pouch with acid-free backing. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co unknown
197936377Middlebury VT: Paul S. Eriksson 1979. Hardcover. Introduction by Thomas H. Moorer. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and tan paper over boards pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii 254pp. Illustrations maps map endpapers. Fine/near fine. Tight attractive first edition of this surprisingly uncomon history of this World War Two aircraft carrier. Paul S. Eriksson hardcover
193731172Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson 1937. 4to. First Edition with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of The Cruising Association and bears its bookplate on front paste-down and neat blind stamp on title. Traces the history of the firm of Imray and irs successors from 1670 to 1937. VERY SCARCE. Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, hardcover
191236542North Yakima: Yakima Commercial Club 1912. 1912. WASHINGTON. 10 1/2" x 7" in color pictorial wrappers. 64 pp. introduction illustrations. Very brief history followed by extensive information on the Yakima Valley to include geography topography climate the Indian Reservation irrigation products produced methods of orchard development live stock dairying transportation communities industries etc. Numerous black and white photographs many full page photos of scenery residential homes buildings agriculture industries public buildings etc. Wrappers disbound from text. Light bleeding to first and last page wrappers lightly soiled and with chipping to top of front wrapper and with tiny fold to tops of page corners. Yakima Commercial Club, 1912. unknown
19692082702114611746Shiroyama Do 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shiroyama Do paperback
197448469Bilbao: Servicio de Estudios de la Cámara Imp. Industrial 1974.- 4 VOLS. XXXI 600 p.; XVI 564 p.; VIII 499 p.; XIV 417 p. 1 h.: Profusión de estados cuadros ilustraciones y varios mapas plegados; 4º 24 x 167 cm; Cartulina Ed.- Ya RARO en el mercado. GEOGRAFÃA ECONÓMICA HUMANA Y ECONOMÃAS REGIONALES Libro en español Servicio de Estudios de la Cámara paperback
190139096Geneva: Press of W. F. Humphrey n. d. ca 1901. 1901. NEW YORK. First edition. 8" x 20" sheet folded to 10 panels pictorial black and yellow pictorial wrappers illustrated map. One side dedicates two panels to Watkins Glen and the Glen Mountain House Hotel and how to get there two panels provide description of the Glen Mountain House and its history and one panel tells of the Geneva Mineral Lithia Water Spring og Geneva N. Y. its discovery and introduction to the public. The other side dedicates two panels to the steamer trip on Seneca Lake one panel promotes the Nester Hotel in Geneva and its rates of $2.00 t0 $3.00 per day with information on how to reach Seneca Lake. The remaining two panels are the front and rear covers. An old water stain is at the upper portion and affects each panel to some degree and a tiny nick to bottom edge of front panel else a good copy Press of W. F. Humphrey, n. d. (ca 1901). unknown
192059229Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1920;1929. Two vols. 8vo. vii 1 4 500 pp.; 2 32 2 leaves. With 1 large folding colour map. First in dark blue publisher’s buckram lettering stamped on front cover & spine minor soiling edgewear slight uniform interior toning 2nd vol. in self-printed softcovers oxidized toning & predation to outer fore-edges front chipped corner still VG- set. First editions of these very scarce coast pilot guides to waters off the West coast of India just after World War I drawing upon British Royal Navy coast pilots and U.S. Navy reports. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions often drawing not only from British & Indian sources but also sailing reports from U.S. Navy vessels and those from merchant ships. The map outlines the available charts for the coastline off of Bombay down to Cape Comorin the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Worldcat locates only 2 copies of the scarce supplement. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
1980133049Shanghai 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Unpaginated. 38 cm. 85 paintings of the Yangtze listed by author and described at rear. 56 are in colour. Blue hardcover in dustjacket. jacket has tears to edges. Book itself has shelf wear. Small ink notation on jacket flap. Ink inscription on brown front endpaper. Text in English and Chinese. <br/><br/> hardcover
1980BOOKS028140IShanghai:. VG unmarked 10 1/2" x 15" Hardback; DJ-G/VG 2 small taped. 1980. ISBN: tears. 85 Plates 56 color of Chinese paintings. Catalogs: CHINA. Keywords: CHINA YANGTZE RIVER CHINESE ART CHINESE PAINTING. hardcover