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5171.
Roper, Steve; and Steck, Allen, Illustrated by: B&W Illlustrations
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
Publisher: Sierra Club San Francisco 1979. Light brown cloth hardcover, titles stamped in gold, soft brown textured endpapers, in illustrated dust jacket. 324 pages illustrated with B&W photos and maps. Includes premier climbs in North America, expeditionary climbs, rock and ice climbs, important ascents. Also includes levels of difficutly, technical route descriptions, elevations, time, equipment needs. This book has become a classic of itself and, as my mountain-climbing spouse says, "sent a lot of people out trying to do things they shouldn't have, " CONDITION: the book is in very good condition, with rubbed lower cover corner and a small spot of finger soil on the fore edge, and top of text block at the corner.The jacket has not fared as well, with a one-inch front bottom corner chip, a long closed tear at top of spine, spine ends an dtop edge worn with some small chips. Still mostly intact and presentable in protective jacket though. MOUNTAINEERING 5171 First Printing Fair Condition Dust Jacket Hard Cover Very Good Condition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Mountaineering
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5186.
Volk, Alicia.
Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement.
Publisher: University of Washington Press and the Milwaukee Art Museum, Seattle WA, 2005. Stiff card wraps with Zen garden print illustration. 123 pages, fully illustrated in color. Post-war Japanese printmakers in the Sosaku hanga (creative print) movement, encouraged by author and collector, James Michener. These artists moved away from traditional Ukiyo-E to a style that is far more expressive, experimental, and individualistic. New condition, no marks or wear. ASIAN ART 5186 First Edition Paperbound New Book. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Asian Art
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5195.
Van Dyke, Henry, Illustrated by: Henry Van Dyke (cover design) and B&W Illustrations By Others
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons, New York 1902. Pale green cloth hardcover with Art Nouveau style design of water lillies and fish by Henry Van Dyke (stamped HVD in margin), in dark green and gold. 246 numbered pages, with 12 B&W illustrations. This once very popular book was originally published in 1899. Margaret Armstrong designed the covers of other editions: this one by Van Dyke is desirable and scarce. Thoughts on angling and the many topics that reflective pondering generates. Contents clean and tight, spine slightly faded, a few light smudges on rear board, the front is bright and clean with just the trace of an old sticker in the upper right corner affecting "just the Luck." COLLECTIBLE 5195 Later Edition Hard Cover Very Good Condition Small 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Collectible
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5211.
Flandrau, Grace, Illustrated by: Sepia Toned Illustrations and Map
The Story of Marias Pass
Publisher: Great Northern Railway. Buff paper wraps, titles and text in light brown, stapled. Photos, art reproductions and map in sepia. Not dated [circa 1925]. Another of Flandrau's delightful essays on the Western expansion of the Great Northern Railway, from Minneapolis to Astoria and Seattle, and the search for the illusive Marias Pass, eventually found by John F. Stevens. (Previous efforts were thwarted by misunderstandings about Blackfoot Indian hostilities, and the Blackfoot's own superstitions about evil spirits in the pass.) Previous owner's very small rubber-stamped name on covers, otherwise extremely clean and sound. WESTERN AMERICANA 5211 Apparent First Edition Paperbound About Ffne Condition Thin 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Western Americana
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5201.
Old Yankee Robinson's Great Modern Show Letterhead with Letter
Publisher: 1875. Very attractive letterhead with advertising for "Old Yankee" Robinson's Great Modern Show - which included a hippodrome with a Roman race track ("every kind of race ever thought of"), a "tip top" circus, a large elevated stage upon which performed a "troupe of roller skateists - both sexes." (woo woo!) All of this described at the top of the page, along with an attractive logo (the Earth surrounded by a chariot race, with show features printed on the globe) and the Robinson rebus. Along the side are printed additional features, including a velocipede carnival troupe, a ballet troupe of "Ladies and Misses, " a "great cannon feat." Oddly enough among the enumerated features is, "More new, novel, beautiful and unique printing (all newly executed by the Evening Express Printing and Engraving Co;, Rochester, N.Y., ) than was ever done in any one season by any company." As an added addendum, the spiel states, "Now if all these Six Cardinal Features are complete and well done, Y.R. wants to know where nay 'Swindle' can come in." The letter itself is dated Terre Haute Indiana, April 9, 1875. The salutation is "Dear Pareints" [sic] and appears to be from "Nell" whose note is warm and reassuring about "plenty of hard "work she is experiencing in the circus. Very good condition with one tiny chip on the upper page edge, previously folded for mailing. EPHEMERA 5201 Original Document Very Good Condition Ephemera
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5105.
Cowing and Company, Illustrated by: Wood Engravings
Cowing & Co.'s Catalogue of Pumps, Fire Engines, Hydraulic Rams, and Other Machines and Apparatus Pertaining to Hydraulics (etc.)
Publisher: Cowing & Company Seneca Falls NY: 1871. Heavy dark green cloth over paper wraps, with impressed gilt titles and blind-stamped ruled borders. 130 pages with index. An impressively-illustrated (in woodcut) catalog of all types of hand pumps, force pumps, hydraulic pumps, lift pumps, fire fighting equipment, garden equipment, and miscellaneous related manufactured items. The fire engines are of the handtub, or hand-drawn variety. There is also a "protection engine" for home/farm use, a green house engine and a couple of garden engines. Each of thiese is depicted with ornamental scrollwork and other refinements, and each carries a detailed description of the enhancements made to functional parts. Overall very good condition, wtih slight fraying at cover edges, some water stains to covers which are not so apparent externally, but which have mottled the endpapers. None of the staining extends beyond blank endpapers. This is an exceedingly rare and charming little catalog. Cowing & Co. is listed in Romaine, but not this catalog. TRADE CATALOG 5105 First Edition Limp Cloth Very Good Condition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Trade Catalog
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