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réf. 36838GRABRORN PRESS PACIFIC BOOK AUCTION GALLERY. FINE PRINTING GRABHORN PRESS LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB - BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. San Francisco: 1994. 8vo. Wrappers. Sale 63 December 1 1994. 432 lots in two sections. unknown books
réf. 12388PACIFIC WORLD ARTISTS INC. KABUKI. New York: Program Publishing Co. Inc. 1969. Square 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated. First edition. A program for the Kabuki Tyheatre performances. Worn. unknown books
1917réf. List1730Chicago: Poole Brothers 1917. Folding map measuring 38 ½ x 26 ¾ inches. Tape repairs to verso some tears at folds and edges still bring and attractive good to very good overall with excellent restoration potential. A map of the canneries in Alaska British Columbia and Washington operated by the Deming and Gould Company who were influential in the growth of the Alaskan salmon trade. The map's date of printing 1917 suggests that perhaps it was related to the war effort as salmon demand increased during this period. The Demings based in Chicago were influential in the growth of the salmon trade in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest founding Pacific American Fisheries Inc. in 1899 and continuing in various iterations until their sale of the firm in 1934 due to president E.B. Deming's ailing health. The map shows seventeen different canneries several on the Alaska peninsula and the one in Bellingham. We find no record of this imprint only a later and small version held at the University of Washington. Poole Brothers unknown books
1880réf. 68192Fargo D.T. Dakota Territory: F. Jay Haynes Official Photographer Northern Pacific Railway 1880. Photograph. Very Good. Stereoview photograph on a yellow Northern Pacific Railway mount 10 cm x 18 cm. Northern Pacific Views backstamp with decorative diamond border lines. Title is negative-etched in white along along the bottom edge of the right image. Both the card and the image is a little bit rubbed and dirty. Image is still clear and sharp. View of the burial ground with several structures visible. Taken at ground level centered and from a middle distance. Frank Jay Haynes 1853-1921 was the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railway and later for Yellowstone National Park. Haynes took many noteworthy photographs at various locations along the Northern Pacific Yellowstone Park Line. Haynes travelled to Yellowstone in 1882 and captured many images of the emerging park. He opened his Log Cabin Studio the following year at Mammoth Hot Springs and continued to photograph the park for many years to come. Haynes' photography is inextricably linked to the public image of the famous national park. F. Jay Haynes, Official Photographer, Northern Pacific Railway unknown books
1980réf. 71395Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press / Copperhead / Tree Swenson / Sam Hamill 1980. First editions. Fine Press Paperback Books & Broadside. Near Fine. From the library of the poet Cheryl Van Dyke. This lot of three items includes a likely unique calligraphic manuscript executed and produced as a fine hand-made single-poem book a chapbook with pre-publication design proofs and an early Copper Canyon letterpress broadside. Together these items trace a lovely collaboration between poet Cheryl Van Dyke and designer Tree Swenson during the most prolific years of Copper Canyon Press. -Item #1: DIANA. Port Townsend WA: Winter Solstice 1980. Original Calligraphic Manuscript. 12pp. Quarto 32cm x 25cm / 12.5" x 9.75". Hand-sewn in original black fine paper wrappers. The front cover is embellished with a hand-drawn illustration of a stylized eclipse design in gold calligraphy. The internal text is calligraphed in white and gold on midnight-blue fine paper. Collation: 1-2 blank; 3 title page featuring the author's name poem title and a decorative illustration in white and gold; 4 blank; 5-10 poem text executed in white calligraphy; 11 blank; 12 colophon reading: "Calligraphy completed on the Winter Solstice of 1980 by Tree" accompanied by a small calligraphic square device mark. In Near Fine condition with only minor sporadic spotting and light rubbing to covers. An exceptional likely unique artifact. A significant likely unique manuscript by Tree Swenson co-founder and designer of Copper Canyon Press; produced for and presumably presented to the poet Cheryl Van Dyke. Swenson displays her mastery of a calligraphic hand in executing the poem "Diana" by Cheryl Van Dyke. This manuscript dated on the Winter Solstice of 1980 is a beautiful formal and thematic rendering of the poem. The use of black and midnight-blue papers with white and gold illumination suggests a thematic alignment with the solstice date of its completion as well as the astrological constellational and mythological references of the poem. While Swenson's typography defined the visual identity of the Pacific Northwest poetry renaissance of this period this item represents a primary hand-rendered document devoid of mechanical reproduction making it an important piece of regional literary heritage offering a unique counterpoint to the era's celebrated fine-press output. A beautiful and elegant work. -Item #2: CHEAT GRASS: A COPPERHEAD CHAPBOOK. Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press 1975. First Edition. 24pp. Quarto 25.5cm. Original letterpress-printed wrappers string-sewn. Colophon states: "Designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill at Copperhead. The text is 70 lb. Curtis Tweedweave. The type is hand-set 14 point Centaur. Illustrations by Cheryl Van Dyke." Unsigned/unnumbered as issued. With the accompanying material: two folded sheets laid in-presumably pre-publication design proofs; one of the illustration by itself and another of the cover/title page which are designed in exactly the same way. A Near Fine copy with only some light fading to the cover near the spine. An early and essential title from the foundational years of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend. Published as part of the "Copperhead" series. "Cheryl Van Dyke has had poems in Kayak Paintbrush Port Townsend Journal and in other periodicals. Cheat Grass is her first published collection." -Item #3: KUHN SPIT. Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press 1976. Broadside 36.5cm x 26cm / 14.5" x 10.25". Letterpress-printed in three colors on light brown paper. Comprising the title thirty-three lines of verse in four stanzas and a stylized printed illustration. Unsigned/unnumbered as issued. Near Fine condition with a light bump and soft crease at the top right corner. This poetry broadside was published in 1976 shortly after the release of Van Dyke's chapbook Cheat Grass. Like most ephemeral productions from Copper Canyon Press during its early Port Townsend years it was likely designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill. Clean lovely letterpress work on high-quality paper. From the personal library of the poet Cheryl Van Dyke a Pacific Northwest poet and artist whose early work Cheat Grass helped define the nascent literary landscape of Port Townsend's Copper Canyon Press in the 1970s. An integral figure in the region's fine press circle she also managed The Imprint from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s-a bookstore that served as a vital social and literary hub for the burgeoning Pacific Northwest poetry community. Tree Swenson is a master typographer and calligrapher who co-founded Copper Canyon Press in 1972 with Sam Hamill and others. Her rigorous design aesthetic and commitment to letterpress excellence established the visual identity of the press for decades. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press made its start in 1972 in Denver CO and moved to Port Townsend WA in 1974. [Copper Canyon Press / Copperhead / Tree Swenson / Sam Hamill] paperback books
1944réf. List3749US Australia and New Guinea 1944. Diary measuring 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches containing 735 entries. With three letters two of which are facsimiles. Diary boards with debossed text reading "ARMY DAYS" and lock; worn especially at corners excellent. Contents Fine. Letters Fine. Overall Near Fine. A diary belonging to Dale F. Damitz 1920-1944 Company A of the 738th Military Police Battalion covering the time between his last day before leaving for service and about a month before his death in October of 1944. The 738th MPB stationed in the South West Pacific Area during the Second World War is best known during that time for its role in the Battle of Brisbane a two-day riot between US servicemen and Australian servicemen and civilians in which an Australian Gunner was killed and hundreds on both sides were injured. Australia was a critical station for housing troops on duty in the Pacific Theater. The arrival of US military personnel in Australia-80000 in Brisbane alone-overtaxed the capacities of its cities increased crime and strained relations between US troops and Australians. Americans had access to better rations including luxuries such as cigarettes and ice cream; received higher pay than their Australian counterparts; and were often criticized for consorting with Australian women. Though it does not figure in this diary race likely also contributed to animosity between the groups. Despite fairly strict Australian laws around the sale of alcohol drunkenness was rampant. Military police from both countries were tasked with keeping the peace in the major cities. Damitz arrived in Brisbane with the 738th in August 1942 where "Lt. Craddock" informed his company that "where we're going we'll have a chance to catch 200 lb bombs in our pockets" August 30 and "Cpt. Forbes" that he would "get some honor and glory if it costs him the whole company" August 31. Damitz's diary is fairly sparse at this time including during the Battle of Brisbane though he mentions an "air raid" that made "the ground shake" December 1. In Australia-"this land of forgotten men" February 15 1943 consisting of "Just heat and rain day after day. And insects" February 5 1943-Damitz's duties mainly consisted of being what he called "prisoner chaser" patrolling for and guarding "the drunks" who "make you so sick and disgusted you never want a drink again" March 29 1943. Damitz's duties took him across central and southeastern Australia from Adelaide River outside Darwin to Birdum and Alice Springs to Adelaide via Terowie-these along the Stuart Highway a critical military transport route-to Melbourne and then to Brisbane via Sydney. The central Australian route through the Northern Territory and South Australia is "just waste land" February 23 1943 and "flat desert country . Saw a lot of camels and a few abo camps" March 5. Damitz's then went from Brisbane to Adelaide River outside Darwin to Melbourne and back to Brisbane. In Melbourne and Brisbane he is on "prisoner chaser" duty: "Was prisoner chaser today. Got through at five. Went out on town patrol at six thirty. All troops were restricted as there was a big drive on to pick up all AWOL's. got one fellow over the hill." April 21 1943 And: "Was working with the Civilian Police tonight after sly-grog sellers. Caught one. Sure is a lot of excitement and dangerous" June 13 1943. Bootlegging was a persistent issue in Australia exacerbated by the presence of American GIs who were unused to Australia's strict liquor laws. Damitz's company left Brisbane for Milne Bay in New Guinea in November of 1943. The camp is "worse than a pig pen" November 11 and the "bastard of a Col. of the 801st" takes away his tent's floorboards for his own use leaving Damitz in the mud December 17. In a somewhat more upbeat letter to friends back home Damitz reports water "clear as crystal and cold as ice" with "plenty of banana trees and pineapples" and "natives here . called fuzzy-wuzzies. We give them a cigarette to climb the coconut trees and knock down coconuts for us" November 17. They arrived in Oro Bay in March of 1944 where Damitz "Just lays around" March 15 deals with the mud and casts his ballot-"the first time in my life I have voted. Voted straight Republican" July 23-on the controversial absentee ballot. By far Damitz's most persistent topic for the entirety of the diary is his overwhelming boredom the constant feeling of preparing for "something big" October 24 1943 that never materializes and the totalizing apathy that this produces. Damitz had been a reluctant enlistment in the first place-for instance mentioning an award as "another pipe dream of the old man's" June 5 1943-and had not expected to be sent overseas so quickly "it was said no untrained men would leave the states. Some joke!"; June 30 1942. He "Sure is sick of this shit!!!" March 15 1944 and writes throughout 1943: "February 4: Doesn't take long for a guy to get so you don't give a dam for anything. Almost get so you don't care what happens next. February 12: Saw a good movie here in camp last night. Rest of the day was just like any other day here. Often wonder if I'll ever have the happiness I once had April 14: This all seems like a bad dream. Sure wish it was over with. April 30: The months slowly go by. You feel like a condemned man who is waiting for the chair. August 19: Today makes fourteen months in the army. Seems more like years tho. Hate it more every day. November 13: Is raining again today the mud is about a foot deep right inside of the tents. Don't have any kitchen yet. Don't care. December 21: Just laid around all day. Don't have any life or pep anymore. Don't have any ambition to do a dam thing." After nearly two and a half years of "all this B.S." July 30 1943 Damitz's company was sent to the Philippines where he was killed in action a few days into the Battle of Leyte. The diary provides a humanizing look-in Damitz's distinctively hard-boiled writing voice-at US-Australian relations and law enforcement and at everyday life outside of combat for a US battalion infamous in Australian history. books
1928réf. 2989Chicago: Poole Bros 1928. Very good plus. 32pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Minor wear and dust-soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. A vibrant depiction of the great city of San Antonio Texas produced by the Missouri Pacific Railroad during the latter part of the Roaring Twenties. The promotional work is profusely illustrated with photographs accompanied by text touting the many advantages of the Alamo City. The images feature well-known attractions such as the Alamo Alamo Plaza various missions and the downtown commercial buildings intermixed with lesser-known aspects of San Antonio life such as the golf and polo scenes Olmos Dam Fort Sam Houston Medina Lake and others. The photographs includes an "Aerial View of the Heart of San Antonio." The Missouri Pacific also includes a bit about itself with photographs of the "Sunset Special" locomotive and the Missouri Pacific Lines' Bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis plus a map of the line on the last page. OCLC records just a handful of institutional copies of this edition. Poole Bros unknown books
1892réf. 46034St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Print. Co. 1892. Stapled paper wrappers. A good copy wrappers chipped soiled starting to detach seller stamp to front wrapper occasional soiling to contents. Lacking folding map. 64 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. 12mo. Promotional booklet published by the Missouri Pacific Railway encouraging settlement in Nebraska. Lacks folding map. Woodward & Tiernan Print. Co. unknown books
1910réf. 207092Canadian Pacific Railway 1910. Hardcover. VG-: White stains on the front cover. Wear to the edges and corners. There used to be a yellow ribbon to tie the book shut but it has been torn. Clean plates. Brown boards with gilt text on the front cover. Inside are 12 large plates several in color labelled and tucked into a three-flap 'pocket.'. Contents/plates are as follows: The Three Sisters from Canmore -- Bow River Valley at Canmore -- Banff Springs Hotel from Tunnel Mountain -- Bird's-eye view Lower Kicking-Horse Cañon Rocky Mountains -- Hermit Mountain near Glacier House -- Roger's Pass from the Glacier House -- Ice grotto Great Glacier of the Selkirks -- The Great Glacier of the Selkirks near Glacier House -- Albert Cañon Selkirk Range -- Fraser Cañon near Spuzzum -- Indian Salmon Camp Fraser Cañon -- Mouth of the Fraser Cañon at Yale B.C. Canadian Pacific Railway hardcover books
2018réf. 202251Art Asia Pacific 2018. Softcover. VG: In great condition with sharp corners and clean pages. A matte softcover magazine. The title is printed in white lettering down a multi-colored spine. Pages: 21 22-232. Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and color images. Art Asia Pacific paperback books
1985réf. 193228Milano: Electa 1985. Hardcover. Good DJ is cockled at the top torn at the top of spine foxed and shelf/edgeworn; boards show sunning and bumping at the bottom; name of previous owner on ffep; interior is clean and tight. Grey cloth over boards with blind stamped lettering; taupe DJ with photo illustration and black and red lettering;147 pp.; richly illustrated in color. Text in Italian. Electa hardcover books
1888réf. 101899Chicago: J.M.W. Jones Stationery 1888. Softbound. VG ex art library with faded stamp on top of cover ancient colored tape strips along spine. Original color pictorial wrappers. 88 pp. profusely illustrated with line engravings. A very clean tight copy of this book with a beautiful color illustrated cover of a dramatic mining scene. J.M.W. Jones Stationery paperback books
1902réf. 12944New York 1902. 8pp. Illustrated. Folio. Original self wrappers stapled. Moderate staining and soiling old folds minor edge wear. Good condition. Illustrated with black & white photos and two maps one of holdings in Knox County Kentucky the other in the East Texas Oil Belt centered on Beaumont. The company -- miners and producers of crude lubricating and illuminating oils -- was incorporated in April 1901 under the state laws of Delaware. This prospectus solicited investors and presented its balance sheet and current activities listed officers and presented the "expert opinions" of geologist Major J.W. Otley the original surveyor of the Beaumont and other fields as to the worthiness of the company's properties at nearby Sour Lake Texas. No listings found on OCLC. A unique and early oil company prospectus with notable content on Kentucky and Texas oil. unknown books
1945réf. List2747Paris France; and Washington D.C. 1945. Six 8 x 10 inch and smaller typed pages; one 4 x 5 inch card with two tickets; one twenty-six page 4 x 5.5 inch pamphlet; one six page 6 x 8.5 inch pamphlet; six 2.5 x 3.5 photographs and two 3 x 4.5 inch photographs. Of the printed matter most is affixed to paper some small tears and folds; overall excellent; photographs near fine. Mary J. Bremer 1917–2019 was a Technician fourth grade from Grant Township Nebraska. Her correspondents here include June Miller 1920–deceased an aviation cadet from Michigan and John Melotte 1919–deceased an artilleryman from Philadelphia. Bremer and Miller were members of the Women’s Army Corps WAC. Established in May of 1942 as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps the WAC converted to active duty in July of 1943. The women of WAC known as Wacs served in noncombatant roles across the various theaters of World War II. Offered here is a small archive of Bremer’s documents and photographs relating to WAC: a few letters including a description of Paris the day after the Nazi surrender; two pamphlets including the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –; and a collection of photographs of Eisenhower’s victory parade and Roosevelt’s funeral procession. On April 12 1945 President Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs Georgia. His body was returned to Washington two days later and a military procession escorted it from the train station to the White House. Two photographs of the funeral procession are included in the archive. One showing a woman at the start of a section of the parade is identified verso as “WACs led by Capt. Machen”. The following month the Nazis surrendered. Bremer’s friend June Miller was stationed in Paris at the time. She wrote to Bremer the next day describing the celebration: “It began the night before when we stood on the roof and watched the flares go off all over the city--just like the 4th of July; the Sacred Couer was blazing with lights and it looked like a miniature fairy-land. Last night all the famous old buildings including the Arc d’Triumph was all lit up the fountains in the parks at Concord in front of the Trocadero--they were all going and the kids were wading and splashing around having the time of their life. It was really something to see--something the French had been waiting a long time for. “Fini le guerre” they kept saying--the end of the war!” Miller also claims to have witnessed a bomber flying a celebratory loop through the Eiffel Tower: “When we came out of the Trocadéro the fountains were on and what a sight that is. Looking down over the water that looks like a miniature waterfall to the Eiffel Tower at the bottom of a small hill. And if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed that I saw a small bomber come through the bottom but that’s just what it did--and just did clear it too. The planes seemed to be going as wild as the people on the ground--they were so thick up there that pretty soon we thought surely something would happen.” In June Dwight Eisenhower returned from Europe and a homecoming parade was held for him in Washington D.C. Six photographs of this parade are included in the archive including a shot of his plane arriving at the airport and one where he is visible standing in the back of a Jeep. Miller notes in her letter from Paris that “you wondered what was coming next; where we would go from here ‘cause in a sense there is still a war very definitely going on”. In fact John Melotte who seems to be Miller’s partner writes to Bremer that he “May be slated for that place they call the CBI but don’t tell June please. She does not want me to even mention the place in my letters so I let well enough alone” July 15 1945. Hostilities would continue in the CBI—the China-Burma-India theater—until September of that year. The process by which soldiers were selected to be sent to the Asia-Pacific theater is laid out in the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –. The pamphlet reminds them that there are still “a couple of big jobs ahead” the primary one being to “crush” or “smash” the “Japs” and the second one being to occupy and police “conquered lands . until the peril of future aggression is gone.” It is a visually striking piece with illustrations in a bold black and red color palette; its cover is a reproduction of a caricature of Hitler Mussolini and Hirohito by Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. Also included in the archive are a card from a friend with tickets to an American League baseball game; a humorous poem congratulating Wacs Ruth O.B. and Lenore I. Nier on new work assignments; and a Christmas 1945 WAC pamphlet with a dinner menu and list of WAC officers. The pamphlet assures the Wacs with a note from Colonel Kenton Cooley “Before another Christmas you all will have returned to civilian life and each of you will take with you my appreciation and my sincere admiration for a great job well done.” Of interest to scholars of women’s history especially in the military; and of the events leading up to the end of the Second World War. unknown books
1895réf. 46744St. Paul MN: s.i. 1895. Very Good. St. Paul MN: s.i. 1895. Land map folded into a bi-fold informational pamphlet 90x95 cm; 23x11 cm; 9 unpaginated panels. All panels generally toned and creased as expected with minor rubbing to extremities and one closed tear to top edge of map along middle fold. Overall a Very Good or better example. An information-packed pamphlet for farming colonists looking for "healthful and pleasant living" in the Pacific Northwest; folds out to a map of the region and available land advertised at $3 to $10 an acre which could be bought from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Rail tickets could be purchased following the "Yellowstone Park and Dining Car Route" which also offered "Free Colonist Sleeping Cars" and 150 pounds of baggage carried for free on each full fare. s.i. unknown books
1915réf. 004397San Francisco: Wahlgreen Co. 1915. Very good. First edition; folded to a pocket size; unfolded - 11 x 32; two maps to recto and verso; tiny nicks to intersections of folds and a few minor spots to edges; faint pen check mark to front panel; in very good condition. A rare publication it was printed by the Wahlgreen Company a well-known San Francisco publisher of official guides art books and catalogs for major events focusing on fine printing and detailed art/architectural documentation for the Southern Pacific Company and their "Southern Pacific Day" during the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. A program for that day was included on verso showing a time table of events order of march etc. The first map a very-large panoramic one showed the layout of the temporary city built on the shores of the San Francisco Bay the key buildings athletic fields promenades roadways streets entertainment zones and even parking lots for automobiles. The second smaller map on verso outlined Southern Pacific's Sunset Ogden and Shasta Routes and connections. Wahlgreen Co. unknown books
1913réf. 26706Tegicigalpa: Tipografia Nacional 1913. Wraps. Good. 26 pages. Printed yellow wrappers. 7 3/4 x 11 inches. Browned paper uncut and unopened. Dampstaining near spine in several places throughout. A scarce publication. Wraps. Rough english translation: "Regulation of the Honduras Section at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco California 1915: approved by supreme agreement of May 28 1913 . followed by the Regulations and Rules for Reporting and Guidance of Those Who Claim to Participate in she dictated by the President of The Expresada Exposicon And Corrected And Approved By The Same Tipografia Nacional unknown books
1930réf. 290876Montreal: Canadian Pacific 1930. hardcover. very good. 2 large folding folding plates with maps itineraries and images of the Empress of Scotland and Empress of France filled with black-and-white photographs. 115 pages thin 12mo cloth-backed boards with mounted plate front cover; edges worn. Montreal: Canadian Pacific 1930. A very good copy. Canadian Pacific 1930. Cruise schedules for the Empress of Scotland and Empress of France Canadian Pacific unknown books
1997réf. 231939Tokyo: Pacific Press Service 1997. First. paperback. fine. Rheims Bettina. Illustrated throughout with 77 photographs some in color. Short introduction in Japanese & English. photo captions in Japanese & French. Slim 4to pictorial wrappers. Tokyo: Pacific Press Service 1997. First edition. A fine copy of this scarce exhibition catalogue. Pacific Press Service unknown books
1964réf. 224909Barnhart Press 1964. paperback. very good-. Thin 4to pr. wrs. wrappers lightly soiled. N.p.: Barnhart Press 1964. Barnhart Press unknown books
1949réf. 568011949. United Scenic Artists designing artists contract. Signed twice by Melziner. unknown books
1930réf. 56115Boston MA: Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co 1930. One sheet 12 x 8 inches folded once. Recipes and food info on front and rear interior is ad for the week's food specials. Paper yellowed and creased dog-eared o/w VG. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co unknown books
réf. 54049Seattle WA: Alaska Pacific Salmon. 12mo pp. 30. Index. Centerfold color illustration. Paper wraps. Coverand edges little spotted and worn o/w VG. Alaska Pacific Salmon unknown books
1968réf. 47533Boston: New England Free Press 1968. 4to pp. 18-23. Paper. Reprinted from an article in Ramparts. A nice copy. New England Free Press unknown books
1974réf. 316563Wellington New Zealand: A SPAN-CARE Publication 1974. Pamphlet. 16p. wraps stapled in the upper left hand corner mimeographed 8x10.25 inches. A SPAN-CARE Publication unknown books