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The Lumber Jack and Other Verse
1908ref. 5818Seattle: The Harrison Publishing Company 1908. First edition. 24x16cm 25pp. Printed stapled wraps edges untrimmed. Toning and smudging to covers with wear along spine. Clean internally and very good. Early 20th century Seattle imprint a collection of verse bemoaning the slow demise of the logging camp as an institution and with it the profession of lumber jack. We find no mention of this publication though a couple newspapers provide some history regarding the publisher. According to The Daily Alaskan Skagway 1910 Col. E. S. Harrison was a prospector in Alaska before entering the newspaper field. He later established the Harrison Publishing Company and moved it to Seattle. The Tacoma Daily Ledger in 1906 states the company was incorporated that year with $75000. We find only a couple of other titles from this publisher in OCLC each held by just 1 or 2 institutions. . The Harrison Publishing Company unknown
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