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University of Washington Press, 1972. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Washington Press, 1972. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Washington Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of Washington Press, 1972-04-01. Reprint Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977 435 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. slightly tanned w/ a few spots. Cover: teal, black artwork +white titles front/spine, photo + black text back; lt edge/shelfwear, back slightly toned. Swann's classic tale of circa 1950s life on Willapa Bay located in the very southwest corner of the state of Washington.

US: University of Washington Press, 1972. University of Washington Press 1972 New/ Very Fine. In Plastic. 1.1 Pounds.. Paperback. New. No Exp.

University of Washington Press, 1972-04-01. Reprint Edition. paperback. Used:Good.

University of Washington Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Paperback / softback. New.

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University of Washington Press, 1972-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of Washington Press. paperback. New. 80x16x128. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Much shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, spine just legible, dampstainging to the page edges, not affecting the text, preliminares through page 19 including the map edges, the rear end papers are also dampstained on the edges; 19th century library association bookplate with no other marking. First printing, same dates. "The intention of this volume is to give a general and concise account of that portion of the Northwest Coast lying between the Straits of Fuca and the Columbia River ..."--Introduction. "This account by a renegade Bostonian, who lived among the Indians at Willapa Bay, is particularly valuable because it shows us a man who was both a sensitive observer and participant in the white settlers' invasion of the Indians' lands..As the earliest book about Washington Territory, The Northwest Coast, according to Murray Morgan, 'sets a standard few other works about the area have… Read More

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1857.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy in brown cloth binding. The backstrip has been repaired and the FFEP replaced. Facsimile map tipped in. In 1852 Swan, originally from New England, settled for the first time in Washington, on the shore of Willapa Bay, then known as Shoalwater Bay. Swan's friend Charles J. W. Russell had settled there in 1851 to harvest oysters from the Bay's rich tidelands for shipment to San Francisco, and in 1852 he invited Swan to join him. Swan lived on Shoalwater Bay until 1855. In 1857 he described the Bay and his experiences there in The Northwest Coast, Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory, one of the earliest books about life in Washington.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First Edition . Half Leather - Hardbound. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 435 pages, plus folding map and four pages of ads. Later binding with blue leather over the spine and corners, and blue cloth over boards. Raised spine band and gilt stamped lettering. Top edge of text block is gilded. Spine is faded. Map is a bit misfolded and shows moisture stains along edges and some foxing. There is a small closed tear in the map on the bound edge, just entering the border. Volume remains tight and is otherwise clean and intact.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. Small octavo, xiv, [15]- 435, [4, ads.]pp. With a frontispiece, folding map, and 17 full-page illustrations. Original brown cloth skilfully restored, a very good copy. Swan lived in Washington Territory (actually both Oregon and Washington) during 1853-55. According to Decker, he was a "secret agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad." Much of this book, however, is devoted to Swan's investigations of Indian life in the Northwest, including a good deal of material on Indian linguistics and brief vocabularies of the Chinook and Chehalis languages. It is lauded by Tweney as one of the classics of the Pacific Northwest. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [i] - xiv, [1], [17]-435, [1], followed by four pages of publisher ads. Engraved frontis. ("Captain Puget's Encampment on Puget Sound"). With 26 illustrations. Folding map. Bound in brown blindstamped cloth. This copy has been rebound and rebacked with original spine laid-down and with new endpapers. Loss of gilt lettering to spine. With two former owner names on front free endpaper (1875 and 1952). Pencil notations in the hand of the 1875 owner on the front fly. The 1952 owner, Norman Jenner, is the recipient of a TLS tipped-in, also dated 1952. In the letter, a Port Townsend old-timer, Clyde L. Peach, describes the quality of Swan's library and speculates on the distribution of books from the James Swan estate, stating that Swan's friendship with Stanford president David Starr Jordan would suggest Jordan or Stanford were the likely recipients of Judge Swan's books. Moreover, Peach writes, "I remember Swan… Read More

New York: Harper & Brother, 1857. 435pp., including folding map and many illustrations. Frontis. Publisher's red blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to extremities, minor soiling to boards, corners bumped, light tanning and occasional foxing throughout. Near fine. The author resided in Washington Territory (actually both Oregon and Washington) during 1853-55. According to Decker, he was a "secret agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad." Much of this book, however, is devoted to Swan's investigations of Indian life in the Northwest, including a good deal of material on Indian linguistics. It is lauded by Tweney as one of the classics of the Pacific Northwest. HOWES S1164, "aa." GRAFF 4046. SMITH 10044. TWENEY 89, 74. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3781. FIELD 1526. SOLIDAY IV:813. EBERSTADT 107:367. DECKER 32:275. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 149.