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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 439 pages. 9.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Oversized paperback. Original brown stiff wrappers. Images and pages unmarked. Wear and chips to covers, gouge in front cover, top rear corner detached. The Photogravures themselves still well protected by the tissue guards and generally in very good to fine condition. Photogravures include: The Wonder of Snoqualmie Falls, A Tangle of Skagit County Cedars Ready For the Mill, The Sweep of Lake Crescent in Clallam County, The Glacier-Born Nesqually River on Mount Rainier, The Belles of Thurston County and A Flower in the Crannied Wall, Two Patriarchs of Snohomish County, Mount Baker Park and Lake Washington, Seattle, Mount Angeles' Eternal Snows, From Dungeness, Blossoms on the Summer Water, A Creavsse on Mount Baker and The Morovitz Falls on Mount Baker Near Bellingham. tbrc/topshelf. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Norman Rockwell cover illustration entitled "The Army Cook" depicts a cook with the 71st Brigade at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, who has just prepared a holiday feast for 137 hungry soldiers. This was a rare instance when a Rockwell cover corresponded with an article in the magazine. Features: Desert Battalion - An Army oasis of USO glamour girls invades Palm Springs, with great color photos; The Incredible Earl of Suffolk aka Charles Henry George ("Wild Jack") Howard, twentieth Earl of Suffolk - He lived and died for England (first of two articles); Memphis Yankee - Cotton pickery president Bill Robinson of McCallum and Robinson, Inc. in Tennessee; What's Wrong with our Patent System? - Jerome Frank proposes a plan - patent applied for; I Cheer the Referee - a football referee's wife boos the 60,000 who boo him; Woes of an Army Cook - but Army chow is better these days; Home Front gets Action - Cape Cod's civilian defense faces a real war test - with many color photos. Stories: Courage; Home is a Place; I Should Listen to Mabel!; Second Fiddle; Happy Land; Siren in the Night (part 2 of 6). Nice color-illustrated one-page White Truck ad shows linemen at work in winter storm. One-page B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of construction of the Inter-American Highway. 100 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. 2" x 1" piece missing from back cover along coverfold. A worthy copy of this wonderful WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Edition de luxe, single-volume, probable first edition issued around the time of a nine-volume wrappered issue (also "de luxe" according to the publisher) with the slightly different title Art Work of Seattle and Western Washington but with the same photos. 77 leaves of photogravures with tissue guards, plus leaves of text printed on rectos only with illustration on title page and photo on first page of text. Full leather with four raised spine bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. About Very Good with leather rubbed along edges, chipped at foot, exposed tips with small corner tear to bottom front corner, hinges a little taxed by heavy pages but holding, a few tissue-guards torn and creased. An oversize volume featuring many beautiful Pacific Northwest photographs by Asahel Curtis, brother of Edward Curtis. OCLC currently notes ten institutional copies of the two editions of this work, stating this particular edition de luxe has "108 photogravures-- 83 credited to Asahel Curtis, 4 credited to Walter Averett, 1 each credited to Brent Gifford, Grant Humes, and A.H. Barnes, and 10 uncredited. The photogravures are printed in various hues from sepia to grey, and many have tints of blue and grey." Scarce in this format.…