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Where to go & what to see in and about Seattle
by Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Seattle: Chamber of Commerce, 1907. Oblong, 21x24cm, [24]pp. Photographs. Illustrated brown paper wrappers with cutout on front cover showing the first image in the book, Mount Rainier. Wraps somewhat worn around edges and rubbed. Bit of ink smudging to fore edge of pages, former owner's name to upper margin of first page. Very good. Attractive larger format Seattle view book, locally engraved by Seattle Engraving Co. and printed by General Litho and Ptg. Co. Views of prominent buildings, streets,...
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£60.71
The City that Made Itself: A Literary and Pictorial Record of the Building of Seattle
by Beaton, Welford
Seattle: Terminal Publishing Company, 1914. First edition, limited to 300 copies, this copy unnumbered. 4to, 275pp. Photographs. Original green cloth boards, beveled edges, front cover stamped in gilt. Boards rubbed along edges, most notably at corners and spine ends. Clean and sound internally with slightly musty smell. Very good. Important history of the city of Seattle by Welford Beaton (1874-?). Beaton was born in Ontario and began his career writing for and editing various local newspapers. A...
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£202.38
Island Year
by Heckman, Hazel
Seattle (WA): University of Washington Press, 1972. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. "Olin, Laurie". "Blue and Black marbled board coverts s with gilt lettering on spine; corners are lightly rubbed; White Endpapers; book interior is clean, bright, and tight; 8vo; 254 pages; illustrated; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright; front dustjacket panel has a moderate chip and closed tear at top edge; dustjacket spine panel...
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£6.44
Message of Elisha P. Ferry, Governor of Washington Territory to the Legislative Assembly, Session of 1879
by Ferry, Elisha P
Olympia: C. B. Bagley, Public Printer, 1879. First edition. 8vo, [3], 20pp. Disbound, lacking original wrappers, otherwise complete. Washington territorial imprint, an address by the governor Elisha P. Ferry who would later serve as the inaugural governor of the state in 1889. Worldcat shows just one holding for this pamphlet.
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£80.95
Market Sketchbook
by Steinbrueck, Victor
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1968. First edition, number 360 of 500 signed copies. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated. Map endpapers, illustrated by the author throughout. Signed by Steinbrueck on limitation slip which was previously tipped in to half title, and now laid in. Beige cloth in illustrated jacket. Nearly fine in like jacket, price clipped and showing a few instances of smudging. A sharp copy. Signed, limited issue of this book from the important Seattle architect, Victor...
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£60.71
Making Puget Pulp: History of Wood Pulp Making, Pictorial Tour of the Puget Sound Plant
by Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Company
Bellingham, WA: The Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Company, 1948. 36x28cm, [2], 26, [2]pp. Photographs, illustrations. Wood patterned card wrappers with printed cover label. Slightly musty, wraps a bit toned, scattered foxing internally else very good. Stylish, pictorial history of papermaking in the Northwest. The Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Company was formed in 1929 and continued to operate through its merger with the Georgia Pacific Corporation in 1963 and until its closing in 2001. .
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£20.24
Clever Cooking
by Women's Guild of St. Mark's Church
Seattle: Metropolitan Printing and Binding Company, 1896. First edition. 22x14cm, 319pp. Advertisements. Original leatherette covers with several clippings of recipes, etc. adhered by the former owner. Covers worn at spine ends and showing general wear. Pastedown advertisements a bit cracked along edges, former owner's name and annotations in pencil throughout, with several recipes in manuscript added. Typical toning and staining in a few places, else complete and sound. A very good copy. Well loved...
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£1,214.25
Seattle Police Department 1982 Annual Report
by Hill, F. M.; Gleason, T. A
Seattle: Seattle Police Department, 1983. First edition. 4to, 38pp. Charts, graphs, maps, photographs. Printed in two colors. Blue and gray illustrated wrappers, staple bound. Some wear at staples, sticker and reference library stamp to upper cover. Clean internally and very good. Prepared and submitted for Mayor Charles Royer, with letter from Patrick S. Fitzsimons, Chief of Police, at front. Contains budgetary information, crime statistics, and arrest and traffic data. An interesting, historical...
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£20.24
World Champions 1978-1979: Seattle Supersonics
by [Lenny Wilkins] [Paul Silas] Toles, George
Bellevue: Moore Publications, 1979. First edition. 4to, 160, [1]pp. Photographs, stats chart at rear. Signed by Lenny Wilkins, Paul Silas, Fred and Linda Brown. Black cloth with gilt lettering and illustration in jacket. Former owner's name to front endpaper else clean internally. Jacket shows wear at head of spine and corners. Very good. The official NBA Sonics yearbook from their championship season, 1978-79. Signed by Hall of Fame coach, Lenny Wilkins, and two members of the team, Paul Silas and...
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£80.95
The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White
by Merlino, Doug
New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. First edition. 8vo, 309pp. Map of Seattle frontis, index. Signed by Merlino on the title page. Blue paper over boards, spine lettered in black, illustrated jacket. A fine copy with stickers to front and back panels of jacket. Signed first edition of this first book from journalist, Doug Merlino. The author grew up in Seattle and this book, which won the Washington State Book Award, details his experience on the AAU team which paired privileged white athletes from private...
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£32.38
Tacoma: The City with a Snow-Capped Mountain in its Dooryard
by [Tacoma]
Tacoma: Lowman & Hanford Co, 1915. Oblong 4to, 21x26cm, [24]pp. Sepio photographs with some captions, and an introduction. Brown paper wraps, illustrated in gilt, black, and white, with embossed lettering. Slight crease to front wrapper, some light edgewear, bit of soiling in the margins, else a near fine copy. Nice viewbook of Tacoma with photos printed by the Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. OCLC shows two similar publications with this title, with this particular printing located in just 5...
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Seattle View Book
by John Davis Company
Seattle: John Davis & Company, 1915. Oblong 12mo, 5.5x8," [48]pp, photos (2 in color) and captions, plus general facts of the city. Illustrated tan wrappers with images of a totem pole and bow (in place of string tie). Very good with light wear to edges. Clean internally save a few light markings in pencil at rear where someone has corrected estimated census data to reflect the actual totals. Wonderful Seattle view book, printed on fine quality white paper with pale green borders of landscape framing...
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Hand-book Almanac for the Pacific States: An Official Register and Business Directory of the States of California and Oregon; the Territories of Washington, Nevada and Utah; and the Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island. For the Year 1863
by Knight, William H. - editor
San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Company, 1863. 8vo, 16.5 x 11cm, [3], 420, [2]pp, plus Bancroft's advertisements on front and rear endpapers. Original taupe cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, and in blind on rear cover. Near fine with some uneven toning and light bubbling to cloth. Clean and complete internally save for the ownership signatures of John Hume and O. Harvey on the front flyleaf. Second issue of this Civil War era almanac and business directory from Bancroft, first published in...
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£323.80
Photograph of the 1932 Tacoma Auto Fashion Show
[Tacoma], 1931. 8x10" photograph, pin holes to upper margin, wear at corners, adhesive residue to verso. Caption on verso in pen identifying a couple of the subjects. Very good. Wonderful 8x10 taken in advance of the 1932 Tacoma auto show. 6 school-age girls pose in costume on what appears to be a Buick convertible. The News Tribune from the previous year's event notes that a new fashion show headlined the auto show at the Armory that year, with "the latest in bathing suits, beach lounging...
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£40.48
The Lumber Jack and Other Verse
by [Unrecorded Seattle Imprint] Blevins, James Wesley
Seattle: The Harrison Publishing Company, 1908. First edition. 24x16cm, [25]pp. Printed, stapled wraps, edges untrimmed. Toning and smudging to covers with wear along spine. Clean internally and very good. Early 20th century Seattle imprint, a collection of verse bemoaning the slow demise of the logging camp as an institution, and with it, the profession of lumber jack. We find no mention of this publication, though a couple newspapers provide some history regarding the publisher. According...
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£161.90
![Our thoughts may fittingly turn at this time to the formation of a Book Club of Washington [finely printed invitation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/993/113/1574113993.0.b.jpg)
Our thoughts may fittingly turn at this time to the formation of a Book Club of Washington [finely printed invitation]
by [Florence Armstrong Grondal] McCaffrey, Frank
Seattle: Frank McCaffrey / Dogwood Press, 1929. One of thirty five copies. 30x44cm, printed on both sides of a single leaf, folded across the grain, of "British Handmade" paper by Joseph Batchelor & Sons, Ford Mill, Kent. Printed in "blackletter text" font, with an "O" initial designed and hand illuminated by McCaffrey, gilt ruling, and St.Christopher woodcut print from the 1417 Laus Virginia manuscript at the Rylands Library. Slightly dusty along top edge, few smudges and pin-sized blemishes, perhaps...
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£283.32
Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington: The Throne Room of the Monarch Mountain
by The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
Chicago: [Rand McNally and Co.], 1915. First edition. 16x22cm, [32]pp. Plates, map. Printed on glossy, textured stock. Stapled, textured silver paper wraps. Some wear along spine and at corners. Nearly fine. Beautifully printed viewbook of Mt. Rainier interesting in terms of both the production style and the images themselves. Each plate appears zoomed in and goes all the way to the edges of the page, sans margins. Views include the National Park Inn, Government Roads, Glaciers, Falls, Trails,...
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The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, Washington. The Magic Sign of a Wonderful Time
by [Theater Program]
Seattle: The 5th Avenue Theater, 1926. 31x23cm, 84pp. Printed in color throughout with photographs, advertisements, Illustrations including 5 tipped-in, and a tipped-in program. Illustrated paper wrappers with mesh fabric covered cutout on front cover and original string tie present. Minor tape repair to bottom edge of front cover, some edge wear and soiling to wrappers, clean and bright internally and very good. Spectacular souvenir program from the grand opening of the historic 5th Avenue Theater in...
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£202.38
Language: Most Mysterious Human Artifact
by [James T. Jones] [Seattle Fine Printing] [Windowpane Press]
[Seattle]: Printe by J[ames T.] Jones at the Windowpane Press, 2011. Letter h of twenty-six copies. Broadside, 28x21cm, onionskin paper ruled in red. Illuminated initial by calligrapher, Linda Lundy. Fine condition. Nicely executed letterpress broadside by James T. Jones, being a poem on the power of language. Only the first ten copies, A-J, contain the calligraphy by Linda Lundy. From the printer: "After I finished my master's thesis in 1972, I kept the onionskin paper left over from the bound...
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1921 Social Blue Book of Seattle
by [Directories]
Seattle: Social Blue Book Publishing Co, 1921. 23x16cm, [4], 123pp. Advertisements, some illustrated. Blue cloth boards, front cover lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to cloth, clean internally and nearly fine. Directory with rosters of Seattle's clubs at the start of the 20's. Includes Rainier, Arctic, Yacht, Tennis, Country, Sunset, University, Women's University, College, Seattle Golf, Earlington Golf, Inglewood Golf, Rainier Golf, West Side Golf, and University Golf clubs. Wonderful period...
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£32.38
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Chester Thorne: 1863-1927 [Cover Title]
by The National Bank of Tacoma
Tacoma: The National Bank of Tacoma, 1927. First edition. 23x16cm, [19]pp. Portrait frontis. Brown suede wraps, string tied and stamped in gilt. Yapped edges chipped along bottom and at corners. Clean internally and very good. Uncommon booklet which collects statements, memories, and short articles from Seattle and Tacoma institutions regarding Chester Thorne, early Tacoma banker and philanthropist. Contributors include the Tacoma and Seattle Chambers of Commerce, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Tacoma...
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£80.95
SONS OF THE PROFITS
by William C. Speidel
Washington: Nettle Creek. 1979. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Foxing along panel edges. Few small open tears. .
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£39.57
Jesuit Mission Presses in the Pacific Northwest: A History and Bibliography of Imprints 1876-1899
by [Leaf Book] Schoenberg, Wilfred P
Portland: Champoeg Press, 1957. First edition, limited to 804 copies. 8vo, 75, [1]pp. Mounted portrait frontis, facsimiles, photographs. Pages partially uncut. Original title leaf from "Szmimeie-s Jesus Christ: A Catechism of the Christian Doctrine in the Flat-Head or Kalispel Language" from St. Ignatius Print, 1880 laid in. Red cloth boards with vignette hand press illustration on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. Bumped lower corners else near fine. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.
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£32.38
Noticias de NACS: newsletter vol. 1, #3, June 1994; Hunger strike declaration, UCSB
by Maldonado, Carlos S., Guadalupe Cannon & Steve A. Magallan, editors
Cheney, WA: National Association for Chicano Studies, Eastern Washington University, 1994. Newsletter. 12p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reports, events, services and resources, very good newsletter in stapled wraps.
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£16.19
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Spokane Japanese Telephone Directory [cover title]
by [Japanese Americana]
[Spokane, 1960. Good plus.. 16pp. of mimeographed text printed on light green card stock. Original light brown wrappers decoratively printed in light blue and maroon, string tied through a single hole punched at the top left, presumably for hanging on a nail near a phone. Some staining, ink and pencil notations, and doodlings on covers, spine worn. Light staining to first text leaf, otherwise clean internally. A seemingly-unrecorded Washington State telephone directory listing the Japanese-American...
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£607.12
