Salem, Or. For Sale by Author, 1904. 88pp., plus four photographically-illustrated plates. Original printed wrappers, gilt, cloth backstrip. Light soiling to covers. Internally clean. Very good plus. The uncommon first edition of a memoir of prison life in Oregon at the turn of the 20th century, interpersed with occasional short.....
Caldwell, Id. 1952. xi,336pp. Portrait. Cloth. About fine. In edgeworn and bit darkened dust jacket. Meek headed west in 1828 and found employment as a trapper with the likes of Carson, Bridger, and Sublette, and in the process travelled through most of the West. He settled in Oregon in 1840.....
[Portland. ca. 1916]. 153pp. plus plates. Portrait. Cloth. Minor dampstaining. Very good. "The author's parents came to Oregon in 1836 with Dr. Whitman and his wife. The author was born at the Lapwai Mission in 1837 and at the age of ten was present at the Whitman massacre. She gives.....
Indianapolis. 1964. 37pp. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Dr. White, a La Grange County, Indiana, emigrant, describes his journey over the Oregon Trail in 1852 and his sojourn in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Boston. 1863. 375pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Spine sunned, spine ends frayed. Internally clean. Very good. The author's account of his travels in Oregon and Washington in 1853, during which he spent much time among the Indians of the Northwest. His narrative is told with considerable humor, and contains a......
Philadelphia. 1914. Two volumes. Original cloth backed boards, printed label on front covers. Inner front hinge of second volume neatly detached, corners bumped. Very good. This is the Graff copy, with his bookplate (sold at the Newberry duplicate sale in 1966). Each volume contains a bookplate stating: "This book is.....
Chicago. 1895. 283pp. Illus. Frontis. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Cloth dull, extremities worn and bit frayed. Some internal soiling, ink signature across title. Good. Lacks the map. Popular guide book, frequently reprinted between 1897 and 1912. Includes an account of the author's trip through Salt Lake City, Yosemite, etc....
[Washington, D.C. 1859]. 82pp. Lacking the two folding maps, as usual. Contemporary black morocco presentation binding, sympathetically rebacked in modern black morocco, front board stamped in gilt. Lightly shelfworn. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed "Compliments of Lieut Mullan U.S. Army" on the front free endpaper, and in a black.....
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. 111pp. plus illustrations. Original tan cloth. Covers slightly bowed. Near fine. In slightly worn dust jacket. The engaging story of an arduous overland journey to Oregon in 1883-84, based on the diary of Janette Lewis Young. Not in Clark & Brunet.
