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![Spokane Indian Camp, Spokane, W'n. [Photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/596/734/1475734596.0.b.jpg)
Spokane Indian Camp, Spokane, W'n. [Photograph]
by Libby, C. A. [Charles]
Spokane, WA: C. A. Libby, 1910. Ephemera. Very good. An image of two tepees in a forested setting, presumably outside of Spokane, Washington. The tepees are assembled from wooden poles wrapped with a variety of blankets and other large pieces of cloth. This image probably depicts a camp of members of the Spokane tribe. Charles Libby opened a photography studio in Spokane in 1901 (he operated as Libby Art Studio with his sister for a few years before). His son joined the business in the 1920s and ran...
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SGD 247.86
Seattle Trolley Coaches
by Demoro, Harre W
South Gate, CA: Interurbans Magazine, 1970. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. Interurbans Special 54. 124 pages; extensively illustrated with halftone photographs. 8-1/2 by 10-7/8 inches. First edition. Near fine in wrappers (paperback).
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SGD 99.14
Smoke Eater
by Brier, Howard M
New York: Random House, 1941. First Printing (So Stated). Hardcover. Good +/good. 8vo., 251pp., black cloth lettered in red. illustrated in black & white by lois cunette. half-title page has a narrow dog-ear at the bottom front edge. -- Signed on the first free end-paper by the author. -- Extremities lightly rubbed and a little fading at the outer edges. Binding a hint cocked. Dust jacket worn around the edges with some chips and tears (see photos).
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SGD 172.12
![Classic Views of Washington State [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/651/036/969036651.0.b.0.jpg)
Classic Views of Washington State [cover title]
by Clayton, Wendell
Metropolitan Press, 1948. Trade Paperback. [28] pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback). Previous owner's short gift inscription on first page.
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SGD 25.82
A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home: A Book of Personal Memoirs Published in the Author's 95th Year
by Judson, Phoebe Goodell
Bellingham, WA: (the author), 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. A classic tale of white pioneer settlement in Washington, by one of the founders of Lynden, Washington. The book was self published a few months before the author died, based on the journals she kept, starting during her overland crossing in 1853. The book remains in print today from the University of Nebraska's Bison Books imprint. Bison Books describes her memoir thusly: "Phoebe Judson's account of the journey west is...
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SGD 826.20
Document Signed; Historic Railroad Appointment
by CLEVELAND, Grover (1837-1908)
1886. unbound. very good. Partly-printed DS signed as President, April 26, 1886, 14.75" x 15", appointing Alexander B. Andrews of Raleigh, NC "A Commissioner to report upon forty miles of railroad constructed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company ... in the Washington Territory". [This appointment coincided with an expansion project by the Railroad in which a total of 46 miles of new track was laid in the Washington Territory (1886).] Countersigned by Secretary of the Interior...
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SGD 826.20
Across The Olympic Mountains
by Robert L. Wood
The Mountaineers, University of Washington Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 220 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are bright and clear with light foxing and tanning to text block edges. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing,...
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SGD 40.83
Island in the Sound
by Heckman, Hazel
Seattle: University of Washington Press (1967).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Helen Hiatt. Green cloth. xii, 284 pages. 1968 Christmas inscription. Price-clipped dust jacket. Contents clean and tight.
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SGD 39.51
Pig War Islands
by RICHARDSON, David
Eastsound, Washington: Orcas Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bill Holm. Stout 8vo. Pp. 362. Illustrated with many black-and-white photos. Contains a short glossary of Chinook words. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper maps. Bound in full cloth with lettering stamped in red on spine. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket that shows some fading to front panel and spine. Signed by the author on the front free-endpaper. A solid, presentable copy of this final word on the...
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SGD 41.31
Was It Murder? The Truth About Centralia
by SMITH, Walker C
Centralia, WASH: Centralia Publicity Committee, 1925. Early Reprint. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Small 8vo. Pp. 47. Frontis. photo. Illustrated with a reproduction of the Wesley Everest "Tell the Boys I Did My Best" martyr card. In the printed wraps, saddle-stapled. A bright, fresh copy. Title on front cover continues: "Authentic Record of the Causes Leading to, the Actual Events of, and the Trial That Followed the Armistice Day Tragedy at Centralia, Wash., Nov. 11, '19. Including Sworn Affidavits of...
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SGD 240.98
With Pride in Heritage History of Jefferson County; A Symposium Edited and Published by the Jefferson County Historical Society. Port Townsend Washington
by [Jefferson County Historical Society]
Port Townsend: Jefferson County Historical Society, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Tall, thick 8vo. Pp. xii, 422. Illustrated with black and white photo reproductions. With a bibliography, index and notes on the myriad of contributors. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with lettering stamped in black. Slight foxing to edges, else Fine in a VG dust jacket. Contains great factual and anecdotal information on the Puget Sound county from a broad group of contributors. For reasons...
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SGD 34.42
Sons of the Profits: There's No Business Like Grow Business. The Seattle Story, 1851-1901
by Speidel, William C
Nettle Creek Publishing Company, 2006. Very good paperback. Paper Back. Very Good.
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SGD 16.52
RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY
by Squire, Watson C
Small quarto (9 1/4 by 6 inches) Hanford Stationery and Printing Company, 1886. Original First Edition. 72 pages, large foldout map (18 1/2 by 24 inches) attached to back wrapper, bound in original sewn wrappers, very good condition.
Written before Washington became a State, the author describes "Some of the reasons qualifying this Territory for early admission into the Union . . . . " using population figures, and a summary of information relating to 34 counties.
He covers Railroads, Mineral... Read more about this item
Written before Washington became a State, the author describes "Some of the reasons qualifying this Territory for early admission into the Union . . . . " using population figures, and a summary of information relating to 34 counties.
He covers Railroads, Mineral... Read more about this item
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SGD 199.66
AN EVENING AT THE GARDEN OF ALLAH: A Gay Cabaret in Seattle
by Don Paulson with Roger Simpson
New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 167p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a fine dustjacket. Corners lightly worn, and owner's stamps inside; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is fully intact, just a bit crinkled at the top of the spine.
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SGD 68.85
The First to Speak: A Woman of Color Inside the White House
by Taylor, Kristin Clark
New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385425104 . The author was a PR aide to George Bush. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. Dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages .
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SGD 17.83
![[The Japanese of North America: The Development of the Japanese in the U.S.] Hokubei no Nihonjin: Zaibei doho hatten jijo](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/859/708/1513708859.0.b.jpg)
[The Japanese of North America: The Development of the Japanese in the U.S.] Hokubei no Nihonjin: Zaibei doho hatten jijo
by Uemura, Tora
Tokyo: Naigai Shuppan Kyokai, 1912. First Edition. An early comprehensive survey of the Japanese in North America. Includes chapters on American society; the historical background to immigration to North America; the Japanese communities of California, Washington, Oregon, and other states, as well as British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii; the types of employment in which the Japanese are engaged and the income derived therefrom; the monetary remissions to Japan and their relationship to trade between...
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SGD 6,609.60
![[Struggle: A Retrospective of Sixty Years in the U.S.] Kuto: Zaibei rokujunen no kaiko](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/850/708/1513708850.0.b.jpg)
[Struggle: A Retrospective of Sixty Years in the U.S.] Kuto: Zaibei rokujunen no kaiko
by Takekoshi, Takeo
Sapporo, Japan: Ikeda Eisaburo, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A self-published Nisei memoir. The author was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1907. He moved to Japan as a boy, but came back to the US as a young man. He graduated from New York University in 1934 and returned to California soon after. He was interned at the beginning of the Second World War, but joined the military where he taught Japanese and worked in intelligence. After the war, he pursued accounting and real estate investing in...
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SGD 413.10
SEATTLE 150 Years of Progress
by Warren, James R
Heritage Media Corporation. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author at bottom of title page. Edgeworn DJ with multiple small edge tears. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 511 pages; Extra postage required for priority and international shipping. ; Signed by Author .
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SGD 35.80
45th Meeting Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments. Olympic National Park, Washington, September 15 - 19, 1961
by [Conrad L. Wirth; Frank Masland]
[National Park Service. 1961]. Report; corner-stapled, as issued. Approximately 60 unnumbered pages. Mild toning and light wear. A Very Good copy. Signed on the front cover by Masland and Wirth. Further inside the front cover by numerous participants on this Board, beneath a group photo. National Parks report includes but is not limited to the following contents: 45th Meeting Agenda; Report on Olympic National Park; Quinault Area; Motorboating problems in Parks; Rainbow Bridge; Minutes; Memorandum;...
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SGD 61.96
![Howard University School of Law [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/473/616/1489616473.0.b.jpg)
Howard University School of Law [cover title]
by [African Americana]. [Howard University School of Law Student Bar Association]
[Washington, D.C., 1959. Good plus.. [19]pp., mimeographed on rectos only. Original printed blue wrappers, brad bound. Covers stained and worn. Mild uneven toning to a few leaves. A seemingly unrecorded directory for the Howard University School of Law, published by the Student Bar Association in 1959. This humble, handmade directory includes a short acknowledgement followed by listings of the faculty, administrative staff, Student Bar Association, the Howard Law Journal, the National Moot Court Team,...
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SGD 1,342.58
Second Exhibition of the Metropolitan Mechanics' Institute
by BROADSIDE
Washington: Metropolitan Mechanics' Institute, 1855. unbound. Broadside. Measures 15.75" x 9.5".<br/><br/> This 1855 broadside promotes the "Second Exhibition of the Metropolitan Mechanics' Institute." It features an engraving in the top half showing people gathered on the Smithsonian grounds with the Smithsonian Institution Building in the background. Below the engraving are details relating to the exhibitions, a list of the exhibition committee and other members...
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SGD 413.10
![[Hundred-year Old Cherry Blossoms in North America, Books I and II] Hokubei hyakunenzakura](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/118/056/1519056118.0.b.jpg)
[Hundred-year Old Cherry Blossoms in North America, Books I and II] Hokubei hyakunenzakura
by Ito, Kazuo
Tokyo: PMC Shuppan, 1984. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A reduced-size reprint in four books of Ito Kazuo's two-volume oral history of Japanese immigrants in the United States. "A recent volume on the history of the Japanese in the Pacific Northwest, including those in British Columbia and Alaska. Based upon interviews and personal accounts, it is essentially a social history of the Issei viewed through their own eyes. Organized topically, it has vivid Issei recollections of working in the...
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SGD 660.96
Photograph of the Seattle Docks
by Martin, F. F
West Seattle, WA: F. F. Martin, 1907. Ephemera. Very good. Photograph of Asian and Anglo men apparently involved in fish processing in West Seattle, Washington. The photograph measures 8 by 6-1/4 inches on a larger (9 by 11 inches) dark gray mount with the photographer's ink stamp in the upper left corner, "F. F. Martin | West Seattle, Wash" followed by a date stamp, "Nov 25 1907." The image has good contrast and tonal range. There is a bit of silvering to the lower right corner. The mount has a...
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SGD 1,404.54
A History of King County Washington, Volumes I, II, III
by Clarence Bagley
S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Seattle: S.J. Clarke, 1929. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. An early history of the area with numerous biographies of the male founders. Illustrated in black and white with photographs and portraits. Bound in leatherette with gilt lettering, marbled edges, and marble end papers. Bookplates, Volume II a bit shaken. Very Good
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SGD 481.95SGD 337.36
Reports and Letters of Herbert Beaver 1836-1838: Chaplain to the Hudson's Bay Company and Missionary to the Indians at Fort Vancouver
by Beaver, Herbert; edited by Thomas E. Jessett
Champoeg Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 153 pages. Published in an edition of 750 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a lightly soiled plain white dust jacket, with the author's name and the title printed on the spine. Uncommon in jacket.
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SGD 129.09
