Tacoma, WA: Henry Mill & Timber Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 inches, oblong. 92 pp, primarily illustrations. Some cover wear, masking tape on spine, but still very good. Uncommon promotional book showcasing the operations of the Henry Mill & Timber Company, with images of the..... Item #21725
Seattle: Pacific Ports Magazine, [1921]. Softcover. Good. 9 x 11.75 inches (oblong), in colorful pictorial wrappers. Not paginated, but ca. 100 pp, extensively illustrated with half-tone photographs, blue decorative border on each page. Wrappers creased and soiled (esp. rear wrapper), contents clean, binding sound. This book was published on the..... Item #21893
Tacoma: Cromwell Printing Company, 1891. Softcover. Good. 5.25" x 3.25", 13 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Staples rusted, text detached from wrapper, moderate soiling; good. A rare consumer information pamphlet from the Tacoma Light and Water Company, which was founded in 1884 by Charles B. Wright, President of the Northern..... Item #22602
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by..... Item #20479
Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... Item #20634
Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus & Co., Printers, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First issue, with frontispiece. 8vo, pp. xvi, [17]-399, in original cloth with gilt-decorated spine. Lacks front free endpaper, cloth worn and faded, some foxing. Good. Dr. Elijah White was Presbyterian minister who first arrived in Oregon with his..... Item #22507
Report 213, 19th Congress, 1st Session. 22 pp, in an attractive modern binding of three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with gilt spine lettering. Light foxing and toning; very good. Congressman Baylies reviews various explorations of the northwest, including an apparently spurious one, in an effort to support the United States'..... Item #22567
London: Geo. Goulding, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. large 4to, xxix, 360, 47 pp + 17 engraved plates, 5 folding maps and charts. Contemporary calf boards (rubbed through at corners), rebacked with new spine, original marbled endpapers retained. Armorial bookplate of John Bridge on front pastedown, Bridge's name and..... Item #22478
Middletown: Loomis & Richards, 1815. Hardcover. Good. First edition of Richard Alsop's expanded version of Jewitt's "Journal Kept at Nootka Sound" (Boston, 1807).12mo, 203 pp, with frontis illustration of the ship Boston in Nootka Sound, in contemporary full-leather binding with gilt spine label. Frontis shaved at lower margin (minimal loss..... Item #22572
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft and Company, 1864. Hardcover. Good. 4.25" x 6.5", pp 440 + [9] (advertisements, some printed in blue and red), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Losses to backstrip, cloth frayed over front jont, front cover loosening and delicate, but still attached. Possibly lacking a front blank..... Item #22149
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Selah Valley Optimist Printing, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a fine dust jacket. ca. 8.75 x 11 inches, 230 pp, with index, 284 photographs, maps, and illustrations. A very good copy, with the only flaw being some old tape residue on the covers; internally very clean and soung..... Item #22210
Seattle: Lowman & Hanford, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles. A very good set with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate of Portland attorney Alfred A. Hampson (b. 1882) on front pastedown of Volume I, and gift inscription dated December 25, 1911 to..... Item #22485
London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6" x 3.75", 226 pp, with frontispiece (Mouth of the Columbia River) and small folding map. Bound in publisher's cream cloth, with boards dust-soiled, spine toned. Internally very clean, binding tight. Wagner-Camp 122c:1: "In addition to presenting the British..... Item #22585
Portland, OR: 1920. Softcover. Very good. 7.5" x 10.5", [56] pp, stapled wrappers with embossed vignette of Mt. Hood. Moderate general wear to wraps; internals clean and sound. Very good. Both a program for a Shriners convention and a guide for visitors to Portland and vicinity, this attractive production includes..... Item #14951
Buffalo, NY: E.H. Hutchinson, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp, in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska (primarily Sitka), and British Columbia in 1888, reporting back in a series of articles..... Item #14096
Yakima, WA: 1980. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Fourth printing of the second edition. 508 pp, indexed. One corner lightly bumped, some foxing to endpapers, else fine, in a very nice dust jacket with just a touch of edgewear. "A basic and authoritative source for the..... Item #22343
Seattle, WA: 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 13.75" x 8.25", 151 pp, bound in green buckram with gilt spine lettering. Mimeographed typescript, with text on rectos only. Boards lightly scuffed, previous owner's ink stamp on front cover and pastedown; very good. Reproduces the text of two of Campbell's journals..... Item #22517
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1914. Hardcover. Very good. Part 1: 408 pp, indexed; Part 2: 110 plates, each with brief explanatory text. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Both volumes have some faint evidence of liquid splash on boards, but still present well and are in excellent condition internally. Some pages..... Item #21732
Salem, Oregon: Printed for the author at the Oregon State Penitentiary, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 262 pp. A fine copy in original cloth. Webb spent ten years incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary, providing him with more than sufficient material for this reasoned and well written critique. He argues..... Item #14968
