First Edition. A collection of reproductions of Wong's Human Instamatic drawings of people and places in and around Eureka, California. Mostly printed offset in black; a few have an overprinting in red for his chop. One reproduces Wong's "Human Instamatic" blindstamp. Wong lived in Old Town, Eureka, at the time.....
Price: $6,000
First Edition. The scarcest of the Northwestern California native language books. It is based on field work with Isaac Duncan, one of the few remaining native speaker, then living near Petrolia, in Humboldt County, near the mouth of the Mattole River in far northwestern California. The author of the book.....
Price: $150
First Edition. An account of the often brutal interactions between white settlers and the Native Americans living in the Round Valley, in Northern Mendocino County, California. Since descendants of some of the worst offenders still live in the region, rumors of their attempts to supress the book abound. Its relative.....
Price: $1,000
A pair of photographs of wooden-hulled ships, probably barkentines, under construction at Rolph's Shipyard in Fairhaven, on the Samoa penninsula across Humboldt Bay from Eureka, California. The shipyard at Fairhaven was founded by Hans-Ditlev Bendixsen, a Danish shipbuilder, in 1869. He built about a hundred large vessels there until 1910.....
Price: $150
Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short.....
Price: $200
Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt is dead—Eureka looks deserted & forlorn.....
Price: $50
