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EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER: Western Gentleman, Frontier Lawyer, American Statesman
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Near fine in light blue illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of front cover) .
Book ID: 79630More details Price: $21.50 -
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: 69585More details Price: $14.50 -
CARMEN OF THE GOLDEN COAST.
Edition: First edition.
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: 64746More details Price: $40.00 -
THE FIRES OF EDGARVILLE.
Edition: First printing.
Hood River, OR: Crispin / Hammer (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Oregon author's highly praised second novel. Molly Gloss commented that it is "a mystery novel, and a page turner, but [also] one that engages authentically with a dishonorable part of our past - that is, the Japanese detention camps - that conjures brilliantly the effects of dementia, that tackles unflinchingly the difficult terrain of families, prejudice, guilt, deception all the while in fluid, singing prose." SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0970640574.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 89142More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 67561More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 41708More details Price: $9.50 -
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: 39432More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 22958More details Price: $10.00 -
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: 53080More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 13041More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 64429More details Price: $13.50 -
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: 36539More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 39262More details Price: $17.50 -
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: 62898More details Price: $28.50 -
WHO DRINKS THE WINE and Other Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Murphy, OR: Castle Peak Editions, (2000). SIGNED first edition - A significant collection of poem in many formats - some lyric, some long, some prose-poems, some haiku - most reflecting both the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California and the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon, and the people and wildlife which live there. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2001. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-965793877.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light crease to back cover)
Book ID: 90203More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 80750More details Price: $40.00 -
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: 25509More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 22450More details Price: $28.00 -
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: 16775More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 16037More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 39257More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 39258More details Price: $21.00 -
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: 39256More details Price: $60.00 -
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: 57134More details Price: $16.50 -
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: 33906More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 88116More details Price: $21.50 -
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: 19614More details Price: $20.00 -
PROOF POSITIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0735058.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86675More details Price: $35.00 -
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 the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0196254.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62631More details Price: $30.00 -
THE UNDERTAKER'S WIDOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-385-480547.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42362More details Price: $27.50