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First Edition. 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).
Price: $60
First Edition. 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).
Price: $60
A Washington state phone book. With listings for residents and companies, with ads. Covers Pasco, Kennewick, Benton City, Enterprise, and Plymouth. 136, 40 pages. 6-1/8 by 9-1/4 inches. Near fine copy.
Price: $85
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.....
Price: $4,000
First Edition. 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.....
Price: $250
Third Edition. The third edition, after much shorter versions published in 1928 and 1929. This is a promotional publication printed at a Japanese-language press in Seattle, intended to encourage pan-Pacific trade through the port of Seattle. Chapters are devoted to manufacturing, commercial business, the current state of Seattle trade, trade.....
Price: $1,850
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.....
Price: $400
First Edition. 352 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30
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.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A memoir of Alfred Nobel by the executor of the industrialist's will, and the person widely credited with organizing the prize foundation. The book was published after Sohlman's death, in 1950, and first translated into English in 1983 to mark the 150th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's birth. 144.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. 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.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A short reprinting of documents related to the decommissioning of Fort Steilacoom, in Washington Territory. 3 pages (a single sheet, folded to make 4 pages, the final one blank). 42d Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 202. First edition (first printing). Light discoloration to the first.....
Price: $25
First Edition. 77 pages; plus two plates showing equipment and a large fold-out plan of the Sydney Observatory. Includes reports on the calculation of the longitude of the observatory in Sydney and extensive tables of mean right ascensions and north polar distances of stars observed in 1877 and 1878. Russell, according.....
Price: $100
First Edition. A scarce navigation textbook written by a Seattle ship captain. Smith pursued a variety of business ventures in the early 20th century, including running a navigation school for which he wrote this book. It went through several editions with slightly different content. The first two editions are not.....
Price: $150
First Edition. This is a romance set in Seattle and on Puget Sound, with some scenes in San Francisco. The plot follows two friends, both doctors, whose families intermarry in 1909. The author seems to be the wife of Dr. A. A. Lindsay, a physician operating out the the Savoy.....
Price: $50
Three books of photographs, each devoted to one island and illustrated with black and white photographs with blank verse captions. Issued in a box with a loose title leaf. 12 by 9 inches (oblong). 24 pages each. Bainbridge Island book near fine; other two still sealed in shrinkwrap. In a very.....
Price: $45
First Edition. All ten volumes in the "spines" series, also called "a series of essays on aspects of books and publishing." Ed Marquand is a book artist based in Seattle and Tieton, Washington, who makes editions of books for artists and museums and, from time to time, produces his own.....
Price: $750
Roughly 9-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. Image of a long sluice powering a half-built mill in a Douglas fir forest, probably near Puget Sound, Washington. Identified on verso (back) as "Negative No. 405. A. H. Waite, Tacoma, Wash." The image is also stamped "Printed by A. C. Carpenter, Photographer, 917 C......
Price: $125
A very high-quality German litho card of the Seattle waterfront with many ships and dock companies visible. Handcolored. A fine example. Postally unused.
Price: $10
Real photo postcard (RPPC). Panoramic view of Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington. Note in pencil at the bottom edge, small spot above image. Postally used, postmarked Juen 16, 1907. A nice image.
Price: $30