First Edition. A dictionary of 430 terms, compiled with the assistance of C. R. Hellyer of the City Detective Department of the Portland police. An unusual Oregon imprint. "John Hancock, noun, current amongst confidence men and paper grafters generally. A signature. Derived from the common observation that John Hancock, of.....

The programs for the first two post-war conventions of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Intermountain District, which was made up of local chapters in Idaho and Malheur County, in eastern Oregon, at the time of the first convention; by the second convention the district had expanded to include Utah.....

First Edition. Volume three only of this series. The contents are "Diary of Sarah White Smith (Mrs. Asa B. Smith); Letters of Asa B. Smith; and Other Documents Relating to the 1838 Reenforcement of the Oregon Mission." Published in the series First White Women Over the Rockies: Diaries, Letters, and.....

First Edition. A reference book from one of the leading beer researchers and educators in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume covers barley, malt, malting, malting adjuncts, hops, and technical materials. 623 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good or better copy in thin leatherette boards.....

First Edition. Anecdotes connected to the Hanley family in the Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada high desert country. Illustrated with halftone photographs. 128 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition. A fine hardcover copy. No dust jacket, probably as issued. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bill Ogden, a Southern California painter, defined the surf art look of the era. Some of his most visible work was done for the Portland, Oregon, swimwear company, Jantzen, which held the back cover ad space in Surfer Magazine for a number of.....

First Edition. The author's first book, linked stories inspired by the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Uncommon signed.

First Edition. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of vintage photos. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. 432 pages. First edition (first printing). Corners worn, else very good. Inscribed by the author, "To Mike & Ronda, Larry L. McLane. 5/13/95."

A stereograph view of the Oregon Steam Navigation pier at The Dalles, a lumber and passenger port about 80 miles east of Portland. Watkins copyrighted this view in 1867. This stereo card is seen on orange (this) and yellow mounts. The yellow mount examples include the date adopted here. The.....

First Edition. A commemorative book celebrating the centennial of the Welches, Oregon, post office, in 2005, with additional material about the history of the area around Welches, at the foot of Mount Hood. The book consists of photocopies of article, resolutions, correspondance, and the like, with many copies in color.....

First edition. A volume of poems by Cauble with artwork by Linda Neufer, published in an edition of 250 letterpress copies. The illustrations are mounted photographs of paintings. An interesting example of the letterpress poetry movement in the 1970s. First edition (first printing). A very good copy, mostly because of.....

An unproduced screenplay about disaffected upperclass youth in New York, seemingly an early collaboration between Trow, a New Yorker writer, and Ivory, part of the James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala trio that formed Merchant Ivory Productions. The screenplay appears to date from the Viet Nam War era.....

A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee, needed to raise $3500 to charter a......