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Revolution In Seattle
by Harvey O'Connor
"Originally published in 1964 by Monthly Review Press, New York."
Washington Books & Ephemera
![[Manuscript Indenture Between Two Citizens of the "City of Washington," Discussing the Transmission of Various Property, Including Two Slaves]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/771/427/1483427771.0.b.jpg)
[Manuscript Indenture Between Two Citizens of the "City of Washington," Discussing the Transmission of Various Property, Including Two Slaves]
by [Slavery]. [Washington, D.C.]
Washington, D.C., 1839. Fair.. [3]pp. Large folio. Separated into six pieces, with a very small section of the final attestation lacking altogether. Still highly readable. A wounded, but important document. A rare and historically-important document relating to slavery in the District of Columbia, which was outlawed on April 16, 1862, nearly nine months before the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. The present document is an indenture made between William G. Howison and Alexander Hunter,...
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$950.00
Across the Olympic Mountains : The Press Expedition, 1889-90
by Robert L. Wood
Mountaineers Books, The, 1988. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$13.52
![[PNW, Pacific Northwest:] [Souvenir Red Cedar Shingle Post Card and Advertisement for Panama-Pacific International Exhibition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/779/573/1321573779.0.b.jpg)
[PNW, Pacific Northwest:] [Souvenir Red Cedar Shingle Post Card and Advertisement for Panama-Pacific International Exhibition]
by [Jamison Mill Co.]
[Everett, Washington. ca. 1915]. Approx 3 x 5½ inches. Cedar "Post Card" Shingle, wedge-shaped. Fine condition. Selling one's product in-hand, and via the U.S. mail, this souvenir post card was distributed at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in 1915 ("P.P.I.E. 1915"). Upon, Jamison Mill Co., of Everett, Washington was the clever exhibitor advertising their Cedarcream Brand. Also advertising their services were the Sumner Iron Works of both Everette and Seattle, Washington. Sumner Iron Works...
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$125.00
Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Sydney Observatory, New South Wales, in the Years 1877 and 1878
by Russell, H. C. [Henry Chamberlain]
Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 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 to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, was a very active director of the Sydney Observatory, coordinating...
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$120.00
'In 1915 It's Seattle' (sheet music)
by Benjamin, William A and Jessie Thomas. Arranged by Carl A. Weber
1915. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 5 pages. Musical score and lyrics. 'Dedicated to Seattle Lodge No. 92, B.P.O.E.' (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) printed on front cover. Front cover is illustrated and includes a vignette of multi-story building, labelled 'Our New Home'. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in color illustrated wrappers (paperback). Scarce.
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$75.00
Skid Road
by Morgan, Murray
Ballantine Books, 1971. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.06
Island Year
by Heckman, Hazel
Seattle (WA): University of Washington Press, 1972. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. "Olin, Laurie". "Blue and Black marbled board coverts s with gilt lettering on spine; corners are lightly rubbed; White Endpapers; book interior is clean, bright, and tight; 8vo; 254 pages; illustrated; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright; front dustjacket panel has a moderate chip and closed tear at top edge; dustjacket spine panel...
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$7.95
![The California Historical Society Presents Behind Barbed Wire [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/521/203/1596203521.0.b.jpg)
The California Historical Society Presents Behind Barbed Wire [Poster]
by [Japanese American Internment]
[San Francisco]: The California Historical Society, 1973. Poster, 21x16" printed in black on light brown paper. Signed in the lower right by Leah Garchik (perhaps a printed signature), who likely designed the poster. Few light wrinkles from rolling. Near fine. Poster for a cinemagraphic memorial to Japanese-American relocation during WWII which was created by students and faculty at the University of Delaware. The program was sponsored in California by the Historical Society and likely put on at...
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$150.00
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
by Morgan, Murray (Author)
New York, New York: Viking Press, 1951. Later Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Hard Cover Light shelf wear to the cover and spine with some shelf lean. Some rubbing and denting to the spine ends and cover corners with sunning to the spine and cover edges. Binding is shaken but remains intact and pages are clean and unbent.
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$33.50
SOS North Pacific. Tales of Shipwrecks off the Washington, Briitsh Columbia and Alaska Coasts
by Newell, Gordon R
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort. 1955. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. Age-toned dustjacket has some edgewear with some loss & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 216 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$19.61
San Juan Islands
by Cooper, Ed; Kirk, Ruth
Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$28.01
The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800 (2 volumes)
by Wagner, Henry R
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937. First edition. 2 vols, 4tos, 270, 271-543pp. 40 maps, 12 folding. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Lacking jackets and slipcase, else very good with bumped corners and some edge wear. Few marginal annotations. Howes W7. Streeter VII 4403. Tweney 81. .
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$275.00
Sons of the Profits. There's No Business Like Grow Business! The Seattle Story 1851-1901
by Speidel, William C
Seattle: Nettle Creek. 2002. Very Good condition. Black & white map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 345 pages. The story of how the people who built Seattle made their money. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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$9.15
SONS OF THE PROFITS
by William C. Speidel
Washington: Nettle Creek. 1979. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Foxing along panel edges. Few small open tears. .
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$48.88
Skid Road: an informal portrait of Seattle
by Murray Morgan
First Edition. 280 pages. The first 100 years of history and personalities of a great American city - Seattle WA. Told by a local historian and the author of Puget's Sound, Murray Morgan. Dust jacket is not clipped, but chipped on the edges and corners, and lightly soiled on the back.Covers are very clean with light blue cloth and show very mild wear on edges and corners. Pages are clean and unmarked except for an owner name and initial on the FFEP. Very light foxing on the top and front edges.
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$65.00
Signed Photograph Ca. 1932
by Crosby, Bing
[Los Angeles], 1932. 8x10" photograph inscribed to the former owner by Bing Crosby. Some smudging to verso otherwise very clean, near fine condition. Quite early signed publicity photo of the famous multimedia star from Tacoma, Washington. Beautiful condition. .
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$95.00
![Sowing Wheat Near Hartline Wash. by G.M. Stapish [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/234/1495234760.0.b.jpg)
Sowing Wheat Near Hartline Wash. by G.M. Stapish [caption title]
by [Washington Photographica]. [Agriculture]
Hartline, Wa: E.D. Reinhart, 1910. Good plus.. Large format sepia-toned albumen photograph, 6.25 x 8.25 inches on a slightly larger gray studio mat stamped "E.D. Reinhart Hartline, Wash." at lower middle. Small abrasions and scratches to mat above the photograph, one small scratch to right side of image, minor rubbing, moderate edge wear. A handsome photograph showing four farmers sowing wheat in a barren landscape near Hartline, Washington in the early-20th century. Each farmer stands atop a seed...
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$550.00
The Legacy of Alfred Nobel: The Story Behind the Nobel Prizes
by Sohlman, Ragnar
London: The Bodley Head, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 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 pages. First English-language edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy belonged to Edmond Fischer, the co-winner of the 1992 Nobel...
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$1,500.00
![Spokane Japanese Telephone Directory [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/640/347/1538347640.0.b.jpg)
Spokane Japanese Telephone Directory [cover title]
by [Japanese Americana]
[Spokane, 1960. Good plus.. 16pp. of mimeographed text printed on light green card stock. Original light brown wrappers decoratively printed in light blue and maroon, string tied through a single hole punched at the top left, presumably for hanging on a nail near a phone. Some staining, ink and pencil notations, and doodlings on covers, spine worn. Light staining to first text leaf, otherwise clean internally. A seemingly-unrecorded Washington State telephone directory listing the Japanese-American...
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$750.00
Pig War Islands (SIGNED)
by Richardson, David
Eastsound, WA: Orcas Publishing. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine condition hardcover in cloth covered boards with a Very Good condition dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on the first free end paper. DJ has a one-inch closed tear and some minor rubbing at the edges. Prospective customers can always request images. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 362 pages; Signed by Author .
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$75.00
Seattle Cityscape #2 - SIGNED by Steinbrueck
by STEINBRUECK, Victor
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Good+. Victor Steinbrueck. Square 4to. Pp. 111. Frontis. Elliott Bay sketch. Illustrated throughout with black ink drawings. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, endpaper maps on blue. Signed by Steinbrueck in ink on the half title. Top edge a tad dust-soiled, boards slightly bowed. In the two color wrap-around illustrated dust jacket with price $10 intact on the front flap: edges age -oned with...
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$40.00
Paulina Preferred
by Linck, James G
Binfords & Mort, 1945. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). FINE---Exceptionally clean, unmarked, tight .Blue cloth covered boards. Nice bookplate from 1945 on endpaper ( (Stanley G. Jewett). Author signature on Half-Title. Jacket price intact. Light scuff, primarily top edge.
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$5.85
Paul Bunyan Comes West
by Ida Virginia Turney
[Eugene, Oregon]: Printed by the University Press under the direction of Eric W. Allen, School of Journalism [1920s]. 34, [2]pp. First Edition. Self wrappers; hand-sewn. Linoleum print illustrations and decorations. Wraps at top and bottom about 40% separated along fold, a light narrow stain line down length of spine; mild surface soil. A handsome copy. Excellent Arts and Crafts folklore title collecting tales of American folk hero Paul Bunyan in the Pacific Northwest. Linoleum print illustrations and...
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$2,500.00
