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  • WALLULAH 1966 (Willamette University Yearbook, 1966, Volume 56) by Associated Students of Willamette University; editor Scott Freund.
    Associated Students of Willamette University; editor Scott Freund.
    WALLULAH 1966 (Willamette University Yearbook, 1966, Volume 56)

    Edition: First edition.

    Salem, Oregon: Willamette University 1966. Hardcover first edition - Although glancing at the photographs in the yearbook for this small liberal arts college, gives the sense of a tranquil and unchanged student life (one still dominated by the sorority and fraternity system), historian G. Thomas Edwards in his 2008 essay 'Student Activism at Pomona, Willamette, and Whitman, 1965-1971' notes that "TodayÕs student generation has little comprehension of small college activism of 1965-1971 that revitalized their institutions. No other period of modern collegiate historyÑat small as well as large schoolsÑhad such a long lasting impact. These formative years included the end of traditional parietal rules, the appointment of students to influential committees, the emergence of the pervasive counterculture, the decline…

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    Salem, Oregon: Willamette University 1966. Hardcover first edition - Although glancing at the photographs in the yearbook for this small liberal arts college, gives the sense of a tranquil and unchanged student life (one still dominated by the sorority and fraternity system), historian G. Thomas Edwards in his 2008 essay 'Student Activism at Pomona, Willamette, and Whitman, 1965-1971' notes that "TodayÕs student generation has little comprehension of small college activism of 1965-1971 that revitalized their institutions. No other period of modern collegiate historyÑat small as well as large schoolsÑhad such a long lasting impact. These formative years included the end of traditional parietal rules, the appointment of students to influential committees, the emergence of the pervasive counterculture, the decline of Greeks in numbers, and academic reforms. In summary, activists spearheaded major changes at the three small colleges in a period of about six academic years. No other time period in collegiate history has experienced such meaningful and long lasting results. TodayÕs colleges reflect the profound changes brought about by activists in the sixth decade of the twentieth century. Photographs throughout. Large format. 222 pp. plus Index.

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    Condition: Very good in white boards with red lettering and black and red illustration (spot to back cover.)

    Book ID: 46517
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  • EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER: Western Gentleman, Frontier Lawyer, American Statesman by [Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811 - 1861] Vandenhoff, Anne.
    [Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811 - 1861] Vandenhoff, Anne.
    EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER: Western Gentleman, Frontier Lawyer, American Statesman

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Auburn, CA: Pony Express Printers, (1979). SIGNED first edition - A biography of this politician, statesman and military leader. He was born in London to "poor but educated" Quaker parents, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was just five, settling for a while in Robert Owen's utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana. As an attorney and politician in Springfield, Illinois he became close friends with Abraham Lincoln (who named one of his sons after him). He relocated to San Francisco and then to Oregon where he was elected as a Senator - his death at the Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia, in 1861 during the Civil War is the only example of a sitting Senator…

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    Auburn, CA: Pony Express Printers, (1979). SIGNED first edition - A biography of this politician, statesman and military leader. He was born in London to "poor but educated" Quaker parents, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was just five, settling for a while in Robert Owen's utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana. As an attorney and politician in Springfield, Illinois he became close friends with Abraham Lincoln (who named one of his sons after him). He relocated to San Francisco and then to Oregon where he was elected as a Senator - his death at the Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia, in 1861 during the Civil War is the only example of a sitting Senator killed in warfare. From Fort Baker in San Francisco to Baker City and County in Oregon, his name lives on, and yet surprisingly little has been written of his life. SIGNED and dated by the author on the front endpaper. frontispiece portrait. Bibliography, index. 114 pp

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    Condition: Near fine in light blue illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of front cover) .

    Book ID: 79630
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  • LOOKING BACK A MOMENT . . . and Other Poems. by Booth, Dick.
    Booth, Dick.
    LOOKING BACK A MOMENT . . . and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Coos Bay, OR: B&B Publishing. (1991). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems by this Oregon writer, each illustrated with photographs, including some in full color. SIGNED on the title page with the words "best wishes" and dated in 1996. 84 pp. ISBN: 1-885813031.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 69585
    Keywords: oregon, photographs, Poetry
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  • CARMEN OF THE GOLDEN COAST. by Brandeis, Madeline (1897-1937)
    Brandeis, Madeline (1897-1937)
    CARMEN OF THE GOLDEN COAST.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1935.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the "Children of America Stories" series. Set on the West coast of the United States, this story of two little girls, each of them living in different worlds, deftly combines fact and fiction to create an engrossing story. In Depression-era America, the Stevens family had to sell their home in Los Angeles and prepare to move in with Great Aunt Carmencita in Seattle. As Carmen is travelling with her parents towards Seattle, with stops all along the way - in San Francisco, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, the redwood forest, Crater Lake and Portland and the Oregon coast, she reads the diary her great aunt kept in…

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    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1935.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the "Children of America Stories" series. Set on the West coast of the United States, this story of two little girls, each of them living in different worlds, deftly combines fact and fiction to create an engrossing story. In Depression-era America, the Stevens family had to sell their home in Los Angeles and prepare to move in with Great Aunt Carmencita in Seattle. As Carmen is travelling with her parents towards Seattle, with stops all along the way - in San Francisco, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, the redwood forest, Crater Lake and Portland and the Oregon coast, she reads the diary her great aunt kept in 1850 as a little girl when she and her family had to leave California because the Americans took their rancho from them. Illustrated with photographs. Green and white map endpapers. Bound in glossy white boards with a blue cloth spine and a full color illustration on the front (illustration is repeated on the dust jacket.) and printed throughout on good quality semi-glossy paper. Rear cover of the dust jacket lists the first 11 title in the Children of All Lands series, and the rear flap contains a blurb for Little Rose of the Mesa Original price of 50c on the front flap of dj.160 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Just a bit of light foxing on the endpapers and rather uncommon in this condition.

    Book ID: 64746
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  • THE WAR ON THE WEBFOOT SALOON & OTHER TALES OF FEMININE ADVENTURES by Clark, Malcolm H. Jr and Kenneth W. Porter.
    Clark, Malcolm H. Jr and Kenneth W. Porter.
    THE WAR ON THE WEBFOOT SALOON & OTHER TALES OF FEMININE ADVENTURES

    Edition: First printing. a slim trade paperback.

    Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, (1969). First edition - Collects three accounts of women from early Oregon history - .Frances Fuller Victor and the Temperance League in the title story; Portland attorney Mary Leonard (who was tried and acquited of the murder of her husband) in "The Lady and the Saw: a Portrait of Mary Leonard" and "Jane Barnes, First White Woman in Oregon" - originally published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1957, 1955 and 1930. Illustrated. 53 pp plus a double page map.. ISBN: 0-87595-023x.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated white wrappers.

    Book ID: 39436
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  • FLIES. by Dickman, Michael
    Dickman, Michael
    FLIES.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2011). First edition - Oregon poet's second major collection of poem, winner of the James Laughlin Award. 78 pp. ISBN: 978-1556593772.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67561
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  • THE RIVER WHY. by Duncan, David James.
    Duncan, David James.
    THE RIVER WHY.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Bantam, (1984.). The author's first book, a book which has become a classic of fly fishing along with Maclean's 'The River Runs Through It.' (and also the first novel published by The Sierra Club.) "Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. Here is the funny, sensitive, very special story of one man's search for meaning, for love, and for a sane way to live - a tale that gives a contemporary voice to the concerns and hopes of all living things on this beautiful watery planet Earth." 291 pp. ISBN: 0-553-341928.

    Condition: Good + - some creasing to the spine, toning to the pages.

    Book ID: 41708
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  • RIMES O' ROUND-UP. by Fee, Chester Anders.
    Fee, Chester Anders.
    RIMES O' ROUND-UP.

    Edition: First printing.

    Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Press, Publishers, 1935. Hardcover first edition - A book of cowboy poetry by this Oregon author, perhaps best known for his biography of Chief Joseph - while Fee acknowledges that these poems might not be his best writing, he is publishing them because of the interest in 'the Great West and its fine inheritance.' 78 pp plus 1 pp with an interesting offer if a reader is willing to rate the poems. Recently reissued in paperback, this remains rather uncommon in the hardcover first edition.

    Condition: Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering (some offsetting to the endpapers.)

    Book ID: 39432
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  • Felt, Maggi.
    COME WEST WITH ME.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Bend, OR: Maverick Publications, 1990. First edition - Historical novel of the wagon trains on the Oregon Trail in 1868. ISBN: 0-89288-2131.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 22958
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  • A SUDDEN COUNTRY. by Fisher, Karen.
    Fisher, Karen.
    A SUDDEN COUNTRY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, (2005). First edition - Her first book, a novel with characters based on Fisher's ancestors and on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration. 360 pp.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (tanning to the edges of the text block.)

    Book ID: 53080
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  • Fitzgerald, Frances.
    CITIES ON A HILL: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book by this Pulitzer prize winning writer - much of it was originally published in the New Yorker. This is a look at 4 cultural enclaves which took shape in the 60's and 70's - the Castro in San Francisco, Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church in Lynchburg, West Virginia, a retirement town in Florida - Sun City, and the Rajneeshee community in Oregon. 414 pages. ISBN: 0-671-55209-0.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 13041
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  • THE JUMP-OFF CREEK. by Gloss, Molly.
    Gloss, Molly.
    THE JUMP-OFF CREEK.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. SIGNED - INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- westering woman!" The author's highly praised first adult novel, a story of a woman homesteader struggling to make it alone, in the high mountain country of Oregon in 1895. Pen/Faulkner finalist. William Kittredge described this as the 'best novel I know of about a woman's experience on the western frontier.' 186 pp. ISBN: 0-395-560012.

    Condition: Very good (slight spine slant.)

    Book ID: 36539
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  • THE JUMP-OFF CREEK. by Gloss, Molly.
    Gloss, Molly.
    THE JUMP-OFF CREEK.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1989.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. The author's highly praised first adult novel, a story of a woman homesteader struggling to make it alone, in the high mountain country of Oregon in 1895. Pen/Faulkner finalist. William Kittredge described this as the 'best novel I know of about a woman's experience on the western frontier.' 186 pp. ISBN: 0-395-560012.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 39262
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  • THE JUMP-OFF CREEK. by Gloss, Molly.
    Gloss, Molly.
    THE JUMP-OFF CREEK.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin, (1998.). SIGNED - The author's highly praised first adult novel, a story of a woman homesteader struggling to make it alone, in the high mountain country of Oregon in 1895. Pen/Faulkner finalist. William Kittredge described this as the 'best novel I know of about a woman's experience on the western frontier.' SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-395-560012.

    Condition: Good condition - rubbing and wear to the covers, usual toning to the pages.

    Book ID: 64429
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  • BURIED DIAMONDS. by Henry, April.
    Henry, April.
    BURIED DIAMONDS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Claire Montrose mystery, set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp plus vanity license plate key. ISBN: 0-312-30403x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62898
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  • THE SISKIYOU TWO-STEP. by Hoyt, Richard.
    Hoyt, Richard.
    THE SISKIYOU TWO-STEP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A John Denson mystery, set in the area of Oregon's North Umpqua River. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page to Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - "one step this way, one step that way." Laid in is a Christmas card in the original envelope with a hand-written note from Hoyt. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-688-016367.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80750
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  • Jance, J. A.
    FAILURE TO APPEAR

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A J. P. Beaumont mystery, set in Seattle and in Ashland Oregon at the Shakespeare Festival. SIGNED on the title page. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-688-12674-x.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 25509
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  • Jance, J. A.
    FAILURE TO APPEAR

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A J. P. Beaumont mystery, set this time at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-688-12674X.

    Condition: SIGNED on title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket (rem dot)

    Book ID: 22450
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  • Keeble, John.
    BROKEN GROUND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this highly praised writer who has been called one of the major writers of the Northwest. The background of this story is the building of a federal prison in the Oregon desert - the themes are freedom, death and culpability. ISBN: 0060158115.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 16037
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  • Keeble, John.
    BROKEN GROUND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this highly praised writer who has been called one of the major writers of the Northwest. The background of this story is the building of a federal prison in the Oregon desert - the themes are freedom, death and culpability. ISBN: 0-06-015811-5.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 16775
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  • Kittredge, William.
    HOLE IN THE SKY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thoughtful, sometimes passionate, and well-written memoir, about growing up on the Kittredge land - a ranch in southeastern Oregon as large as the state of Rhode Island - and about the loss of a way of life, and the idea of a new beginning in the West. Cover praise from Annie Dillard, Ivan Doig, James Welch and more. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-679-411666.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39256
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  • Kittredge, William.
    HOLE IN THE SKY.

    Edition: Third printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - A thoughtful, sometimes passionate, and well-written memoir, about growing up on the Kittredge land - a ranch in southeastern Oregon as large as the state of Rhode Island - and about the loss of a way of life, and the idea of a new beginning in the West. Cover praise from Annie Dillard, Ivan Doig, James Welch and more. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-679-411666.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39257
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  • Kittredge, William.
    HOLE IN THE SKY.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1993.). SIGNED - A thoughtful, sometimes passionate, and well-written memoir, about growing up on the Kittredge land - a ranch in southeastern Oregon as large as the state of Rhode Island - and about the loss of a way of life, and the idea of a new beginning in the West. Praise from Annie Dillard, Ivan Doig, James Welch and more. SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-679-411666.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (light creasing to covers)

    Book ID: 39258
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  • RISING DOG by Kohler, Vince
    Kohler, Vince
    RISING DOG

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Eldon Larkin mystery, set on Oregon's remote south coast. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312-070756.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57134
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  • [Lakeside Classics] Franchere, Gabriel.
    A VOYAGE TO THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA.

    Edition: First thus.

    Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. (Lakeside Press) 1954. Hardcover first edition - Lakeside Classics #52, Edited and with a long historical introduction by Milo Milton Quaife. An account of a journey between 1810-1814 - much on the fur trade, founding of Fort Astoria, a visit to Hawaii and the royal court of King Tamehameha, Falkland Islands, Columbia River, Native Americans in the area and more. Illustrated with maps and vintage prints. Index. liii, 312 pp.

    Condition: Fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt.

    Book ID: 33906
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  • MEDFORD CORPORATION: A History of an Oregon Logging and Lumber Company. by LaLande, Jeffrey M.
    LaLande, Jeffrey M.
    MEDFORD CORPORATION: A History of an Oregon Logging and Lumber Company.

    Edition: First printing.

    Medford, OR: Klocker Printing Company, 1979 dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Russell J. Hogue. Traces the history of the first 50 years of one of southwestern Oregon's oldest and largest forest products companies. Double page map. Illustrated with many photographs, Endnotes. List of Medco's long time employees. xi. 167 pp.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 88116
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  • Lampman, Evelyn Sibley.
    THE YEAR OF SMALL SHADOW.

    Edition: Weekly Reader book club edition.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. Hardcover - Young Indian boy comes to a frontier Oregon town to spend a year with a lawyer there. ISBN: 0-15-2998152.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated boards.

    Book ID: 19614
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  • SUPREME JUSTICE. by Margolin, Phillip.
    Margolin, Phillip.
    SUPREME JUSTICE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book in his Washington trilogy featuring attorney Brad Miller and private investigator Dana Cutler. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 976-0061926518.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)

    Book ID: 62912
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  • THE ASSOCIATE. by Margolin, Phillip.
    Margolin, Phillip.
    THE ASSOCIATE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0196254.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 74896
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  • CAPITOL MURDER. by Margolin, Phillip.
    Margolin, Phillip.
    CAPITOL MURDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book in his Washington trilogy featuring attorney Brad Miller and private investigator Dana Cutler. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-0062069887.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 62904
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