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Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle
by Bass, Sophie Frye
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/fair
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Oregon: Metropolitan Press, Publishers, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Florenz Clark. Yellow cloth with green titles and cover illustration, hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. A good book in a fair to poor jacket. Book: bending at the lower corners and a warp that pulls the back cover down and the front cover up - noticeable at the top corner. Minor soiling and darkening to the light cloth, and some sign of foxing at the text block edges but not carried into the pages. Solid in binding and hinges, but lacking tightness. An unmarked copy, clean endpapers. Dustjacket with original 1.75 price intact. The flaps are in the best condition on this jacket, clean and bright orange with black trees and lettering. The rear panel has a long and jagged tear beginning at the head of the spine and proceeding to the center of the panel. Other shorter tears to the edges and folds, and an overall darkening to the panels from age and handling. Musty smell, but no visible water damage to book or jacket. 178 numbered pages with an unusual number of blanks at front and rear. Great black and white illustrations by Clark. Bass was the daughter of Seattle's founder, Arthur A. Denny. Impossible to find in a first edition with jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Tangible Tales
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1883
- Title
- Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle
- Author
- Bass, Sophie Frye
- Illustrator
- Florenz Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Press, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Oregon
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Seattle Washington Pacific Northwest History Travel Streets Stories Local First Editions Arthur Denny
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA); HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA);
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