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1) 4 Wagons West
Roberta Frye Watt

Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort 390 pages, reprint of 1931 edition. The story of the Mercer and Denny families and their trek to the Seattle area in 1851.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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2) Spicy Trail
Roxy Tallent

Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1955 208 pages. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering show very light corner wear, otherwise fine. Green pictorial dust jacket with white lettering shows heavy rubbing with edge and cornerwear; now protected by mylar. The writer relates her travels from Appalachian Mountains in the early twentieth century to cotton plantations, north west shipyards, schools and western ranches, and more recently many countries in Europe, the Orient, and South America, before ending up back in the Pacific Northwest.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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3) Rose City of the World
Ruby Fay Purdy

Portland OR: Binfords & Mort, 1947 196p. Off-white hardcover with green lettering shows minor wear and bumped corners. Dust jacket is white, (discolored in spots to tan) with large red rose on front cover. Pages are clean, unmarked and tightly bound. A guidebook to Portland with special emphasis on the Roses of Portland.. First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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4) Blue Dirt and Other Poems
Ruth E. Robertson

Maverick Pub., 1979 85 pages. White pictorial soft covers with blue lettering show mild edgewear; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. An author inspired by the Pacific Northwest.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good+/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Doreen Gandy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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5) The Lord May Be In a Hurry
Sister Mary Thomas

Milwaukee, WI: Bruce Publishing , 1967 219 pages including index. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering show repaired spine split along top spine; signed by 8 nuns on inside free endpaper. Black and white pictorial dust jacket with black lettering shows tear at top spine; now protected by mylar. A history of a foundation of Sisters from Portugal who immigrated to Ontario, Oregon in 1911. . Signed by Person of Interest. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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6) They Never Go Back to Pocatello: The Selected Essays of Richard Neuberger
Steve Neal (editor)

Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1988 375 pages including index. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIDOW, who wrote the Foreword to this book. Black cloth covers with gold lettering show no obvious signs of wear; no writings or markings within text; spine and all pages firmly bound. Blue and white pictorial dust jacket shows very mild curling along top edge; now covered with protective mylar. Essays by the journalist and former US Senator from Oregon 1954-1960, the grandson of German-Jewish immigrants, selected and with a biographical introduction by Steve Neal, with a foreword by Maurine Neuberger.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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7) Far Corners: a Personal View of the Pacific Northwest
Stewart H. Holbrook

New York: Macmillan, 1952 270 pages including index. Green cloth covered boards with faded gold lettering show bumping and mild wear to corners; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on inside free endpaper. The personalized history and travel memoir of the Pacific Northwest by the author, an emigree from the east coast who came for a visit and never left.. Signed by Author. Stated First Printing. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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8) The Quiet Life of Mrs. General Lane and We Called it Culture: Last Mountains: The Story of the Cascades
Victoria Case; Robert Ormond Case

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952 319 pages. Black cloth covered boards with white lettering on spine shiow no edgewear; prior owner signature on inside free endpaper, with creased upper outside edge. . Stated First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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9) Sam Newhut, Empire Builder
Walter Mattila

Portland, OR: Walter Mattila, 1969 158 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine show no wear inside or out; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on free endpaper. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering shows edgewear with chipping to top end. The former newpaper reporter on ecological troubles in the Pacific Northwest has written a novel concerning the same subject.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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10) Illustrated South America
William D. Boyce

Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1912 638 pages. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering have been reinforced at spine by library with black library tape; title on spine written by hand; library bookplate has been pated over still-visible presentation bookplate signed by the author; presentation letter from the publishers to H. L. Pittock, of the historically important Pittock family in Portland Oregon, is bound in.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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11) The General Statutes and Codes of the State of Washington 1891 Volume I General Statutes
William Lair Hill

San Francisco, CA: Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1891 1112 pages including index. Brown leather hard covers are cracked with torn segment on front bottom near spine and several cracks with leather no longer glued down on back; back cover heavily discolored with evidence of water; no pages missing and all easily readable.. First Edition. Leather. Good+/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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12) The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class: Portland Jewry Over Four Generations
William Toll

Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: State Univ of New York Pr, 1982 242 pages including index. Tan pictorial soft covers with brown lettering show very mild edgewear. "Using numerous oral histories to complement statistical data from public sources such as federal manuscript censuses and public school enrollment cards, William Toll has succeeded in tracing in minute detail the contours of change. The study focuses particularly on the role of women to demonstrate how dramatic changes in the size and composition of the family and in sex roles, more than changes in the workplace, eroded European traditions.". First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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13) Inland Fishes of Washington
Wydosk, Richard S

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Univ of Washington Pr, 1979 220 pages including index. Charcoal gray cloth covered boards with gold lettering shows scrape across front, very mild corner wear. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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