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Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage. Named for a founding settler's beloved Irish hometown, Bandon is one of the most picturesque cities on the Oregon coast, located where the Coquille River enters the Pacific Ocean. It developed as an exporter of lumber, minerals, agriculture and salmon and was at one time the busiest seaport between San Francisco and Portland. Fires in 1914 and 1936 devastated the landscape but Bandon quickly rebuilt. Today Bandon and the Coquille Valley have a thriving and diverse… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage. In 1850 Congress appropriated funds to build eight lighthouses on the West Coast and construction began three years later. The first one to become operational was on Alcatraz Island on June 1, 1854. While the other seven were being built Congress authorized funds for a second set of eight. By 1930, California had 40 light stations. This new photographic history contains over 200 rare and beautiful images featuring lighthouses of the South Coast, San Francisco Bay, and… Read More

Astoria, Oregon, USA: Wee House Publishing, 2005. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Former owner small name label on inside of cover and five lines of highlighted text on pages 2 and 3, else fine. Bright, colorful, and clean illustrated wraps, binding solid, pages as new. Authentic Victorian illustrations from Dover Publications. Historic photographs from Clatsop County Historical Society. 60 pages with photos on nearly every page.This is not a history or Astoria but rather a scrapbook of enchanting photographs of the town and her characters. They date from the mid 1800's to the 1940's. Astoria, Oregon is the oldest white settlement west of the Rockies and was established in 1811 as a fur trading post by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company. 60 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2005, Wee House Publishing, Astoria, Oregon, USA

Spokane, WA: New Media Ventures, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Book has black rem mk on bottom edge, otherwise as new. Featuring the curious, bizarre, and off-beat legends of Billy Tipton, female jazz musician who masqueraded as a male musician for over half a century; the Ghost of Rock Lake; the Nazis of North Idaho; and other eerie, odd, outrageous ironic, comic stuff about the Inland Northwest, by a New York Times Best-Selling Columnist. 325 pages. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. New Media Ventures, Spokane, WA 1998.

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of Motoring Series. Through a collection of over 200 images, Ford Dynasty tells the story of one extraordinary American family, their company, and its accomplishments over the course of a century. They have made an irreversible impact on American history and society. 128 pages. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. 2002, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

U.S.A: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked, illustrated cover, with photo of Fort Benton Bound Steamboats. Fort Benton, Montana is at the head of navigation on the Misouri River, known as the "Birthplace of Montana". It was founded in 1846 as a fur trading post and is Mintana's oldest continuous settlement. In 1860 with the first steamboats and the completion of Mullan Road, the steamboat era brought gold seekers, merchant princes, scoundrels, soldiers, NW Mounted Police, and eventually women and children to this wild frontier. The Postcard History Series Books illustrates the locale in postcards with detailed historical descriptions of each historical postcard. 127 pages. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. 2009, Arcadia Publishing, USA

Philadelphia, PA: Courage Books/Running Press Book Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Eerie relics of a past American West--cassic skeleton ghost towns and boom towns like Sheridan, Kansas, which utterly vanished and Colorado's Central City, which survives today as a tourist attraction. with more than 140 archival and contemporary photographs and colorful anecdotes. Tom Robinson tells the story of the economic forces that bred these towns and that brought them down; he tells of the men and women who lived in them and the legends they inspired. Boom towns were created by the desire to get rich quick--gold, silver, railroaders--and wide open spaces for building--and the building was extravagant in the extreme- restuarants, -saloons, banks, newspaper offices, churches, livery stables--even though deep-down many knew much of it was illusory and would… Read More

Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A: Texas Christian Univ Press, 1995. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. Illustrated with black and white in-text photographs. Heavy glossy pictorial cover, clean and unmarked, no wear to cover. Solid and square. Internals Fine. 315 pages with index. 9 x 6 inches. Texas Christian Univ Press, Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A.

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage. This volume portrays the growth of Lemon Grove in San Diego County which emerged as the "second gold rush", the rise of the citrus industry, which was facilitated by the 1849 Gold Rush, the breakup of the Mexican ranches in Alta California, and the advent of statehood for California in 1850. as land speculators poured into California lured by its climate, five growing seasons, and the possibilities of success in agricuture and business. 127 pages. 6.5 x 9.25… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage.These photographs and stories tell the history of San Diego's lighthouses. By 1859 the lighthouse off Point Loma was operational and guiding ships around the Point; by 1891, two new lighthouses were constructed to achieve what one could not - a major light on the low tip of Point Loma and a secondary light at Ballast Point. Here are glimpses of the famous and lesser-known lighthouses of San Diego thanks to the memories and photographs belonging to families of the… Read More

U.S.A: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked, illustrated cover, with photo of three of Custer's Crow Scouts at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. and the Custer Memorial.The Postcard History Series Books illustrates this historic battle and battle place in postcards with detailed historical descriptions of each historical postcard. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25-25, 1876, is one of the most controversial and studied event in American history. Custer's Last Stand was first seen as a heroic sacrifice of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7TH Cavalry against the combined forces of the Lakota and the Cheyenne, in the settlement of the West. But it has emerged instead as another tragic chapter in the treatment of the American Indians. 127 pages. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. 2009, Arcadia Publishing, USA

USA: Hyperion, 2002. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Trade Paperback Printing, in Very Good Condition. Blue-gray pictorial wrappers, white titles, very clean and unmarked with ttrace wear to lower edge, slightly rubbed along hinge, no creases. Former owner names on first page. Pages clean and free from any markings, lightly toned. Life on a small island suits LInda Greenshaw--you may remember her as the author of "The Hungry Ocean", her first book, about swordfishing. She decided to give up swordfishing and move back to her island home, Isle au Haut, Maine, where 30 of the 70 island residents are relatives. She wanted to settle down, become a lobsterman--but the lobsters don't cooperate--well, this is her story, a story for anyone who loves boats and the ocean, everyone who has reached a crossraods in life, and everyone who wondered what it would be like to live on a small island. 238 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. Hyperion, USA, 2002.

Boston, MA, USA: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. A Handbook in Pictures, Maps and Text for the Vacationist, the Traveler and the Stay-at-Home. One of the Look at America Regional Volumes. Illustrations and photos on nearly every page. Fold-out map of the Central NE in the front of the book. Historical, geographical, social customs, information on the Central Northeast area of the US--New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania--as it was. Clean green cloth binding w/ yellow and green titles, front panel with illustrations sketched in darker green. Very slight wear to extremities. Tight & solid. Front endpaper has pencil notes on upper edge; also has remains from something removed-not too noticeable. Rear paste-down has the same. Red x on top edge. Interior is clean and unmarked. 392 pages with index. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 1948, Houghton Mifflin… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Gallery Books/W H Smith Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Large Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Over 150 color photographs with index of photographers. Orange cloth binding with black titles on spine, bright and clean, unmarked, tight & solid, square. wear to corners and spine head and heel. Endpapers with a field of sunflowers. Internals As New--clean, fresh and bright, no marks, no creases, Bright and clean jacket unmarked, slight wear to extremities. The American Midwest-pictured in all its magnificence- is the subject of this second volume in the "Images of America" series, with stunning photography. 176 pages. 12 x 11 inches tall. Gallery Books/W H Smith Publishers, New York, 1986.

Helena, Montana, USA: Farcountry Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean illustrated wraps, no marks or stains, tight & solid, square. Front cover flares up a litle. Former owner note on first page--"Thanks for a great year". Pages as new. Tales from Montana's yesterdays, all true stories. Dave Walter has entertained and educated Montanans for years with his take on some of the best and worst in that state's past--and he shares them here. 263 pages, indexed. 6 x 9 inches. 2002, Farcountry Press, Helena, Montana, USA

Athens, Ohio, USA: Swallow Press, 1981. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Revised for the 1980s. Third Printing, 1985. White illustrated wraps very clean and unmarked, quarter inch strip along fore-edge is slightly sunned; tight, solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. More than 140 pictures, many extremely rare, arranged so that the reader can sense the whole story of Colorado Springs by leafing through the pictures. The Foreword.states that the thing to bear in mind is that Colorado Springs began in 1871 as a new way of living in the crude and untamed west-a brash idea conceived by General William Jackson Palmer, aged thirty-five. Author Marshall Sprague, in love with the place, can laugh and cry, poke fun or hand out bouquets to that rare breed of people who inhabited the land below Pike's Peak and made it into the largest of America's spas. An outrqgeous and colorful collection of people made the city… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage. This volume portrays the history of the beautiful coastal town of Newport, Oregon, its fishing, logging, shipping and tourism. The Yacona, the Native Americans who called Newport home before the arrival of other cultures, lived almost entirely off the land and waterways. Today's community is similar in populations that settled the land in earlier days, and independent, hearty and versatile people who you will meet in these pages. 127 pages. 6.5 x 9.25 inches.… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage. Hale'iwa, Hawaii--the special place of the North Shore of O'ahu, a special place that once was the site of the largest heiau, or temple. The land with its two large valleys was considered so valuable that bloody wars were fought over it. Later, the North Shore became famous for sugar, pineapples, ranching. and the plantation life that brought thousands of immigrants from all over the world--Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Koreans, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans,… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina, USA: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and illustrated wraps, tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New. The Images of America Series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today, helping to preserve the local heritage. The images and stories in this volume tell the history of this Police Department as the town grew from a small seaside resort, doubling as a bedroom community for the U.S.Marine Corps' at Camp Pendleton, into a ciry of over 170,000 people. It was policed by city marshalls in its formative years, from 1888 to 1906. The first lawman, former Texas Ranger Charlie Wilson, was also the first to be killed in the line of duty. The photographs in this remarkable collectin… Read More

Portland, Oregon, USA: Oregon Historical Society, 2014. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Trace wear to cover edges, else Fine. Winter 2014 issue, Volume 115, Number 4 . Historic photographs throughout. In this Issue: Tom McCall and Republican Conservationism; Joseph Lane's Possible Selection as Acting President of the United States; Oregon State University Extension and Experiment Publications Online; Klamath County Museum's Largest Artifact. Pages 470-596. 7 x 10 inches. 2014, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon, USA