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1. [American Politics] Memorial Service Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the , Together With Tributes Presented in Euology of Henry M. Jackson, Late a Senator From Washington. Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983. 9" x 5.75". 457pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine condition. This copy signed and inscribed by Jackson's widow to a prominent Seattle journalist and advertising man: "Dear Jerry [Hoeck], I thought you would want to have a copy of this memorial volume. It comes with my deepest appreciation for your many years of friendship with our family and gratitude for your moving tribute to Scoop in the "Seattle Weekly" (p. 255.) sincerely Helen." (The page number refers to the page where Hoeck's tribute is reprinted in this volume.) Per Hoeck's obituary: "Hoeck's advertising firm] handled all of Scoop's successful Senatorial campaigns and campaigns for Senator Warren G. Magnuson. During the 1960 presidential campaign Jerry packed his bags and worked tirelessly as the advertising manager of the Democratic National Committee and was in Los Angeles to celebrate the Kennedy win. Jerry also was up to his ears in Scoop's two unsuccessful attempts to run for President in '72 and '76 but his last effort for Jackson was his 1982 senatorial re-election campaign, a gratifying landslide." $75.00

2. [California] Edwards, E. I. Desert Voices: A Descriptive Bibliography. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1958. 9.5" x 7". 215pp. Cream colored cloth with gilt cover design and spine lettering in dust wrapper. Ownership signature crossed out on first free leaf, else fine condition. Dust jacket has light edge wear and one tape repair at top of front panel, else VG+ condition. Illustrated with black and white maps, photographs and a forword by Harold O. Weight and facsimiles of title pages. An important study of books about the California deserts. $60.00

3. Canestrelli, Philip. A Kootenai Grammar. Spokane, Washington: 1959. 8" x 5.25". 144pp. Gray cloth with gilt lettering. Fine condition. Limited edition; one of only 275 copies, each signed by Wilfrid P. Schoenberg, S. J. Schoenberg was director of the Oregon Province Archives. With Latin text about the Pacific Northwest Indian language. $125.00

4. Celine, Louis - Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1934. First American edition. 8.25" x 5.5". 509pp. Black cloth, in dust wrapper. Neat ownership signature from the year of publication, else near fine condition. The jacket has some edge wear and chipping; a VG example. Celine’s first novel, a stylistic masterpiece. $375.00

5. [Children’s Books] Baum, L. Frank. The Woggle - Bug Book (1905): A Facsimile Reproduction With An Introduction By Douglas G. Greene. Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimile's & Reprints, 1978. First edition thus. 8.75" x 5.75". 48pp. Tan cloth . Fine condition. The frontispiece of this volume is a black and white photo of L. Frank Baum, and an unused illustrations by Ike Morgan is included in the introduction. Rare in the original edition. $100.00

6. Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First edition. 8.25" x 5.25". 220pp., in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. A superior copy. Semi-autobiographical, the story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then - future of 1994. The book includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use. It is the basis for the 2006 film of the same name directed by Richard Linklater. The movie starred Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey, Jr. $750.00

7. [Food] Bosse, Sara & Onoto Watanna. Chinese - Japanese Cook Book. Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, (1914). First edition. 6.25" x 3.75". 120pp., plus 2pp. ads. Red cloth with a color illustrated label on the front board. Corners and lettering lightly rubbed, else very nice VG+ condition. This very uncommon book is this first American cookbook to prominently feature Japanese recipes and among the earliest to feature Chinese. See Bitting 50. $250.00

8. [Food - Menus] Charlie Nickens & Son Famous Pit Barbecue. 305 Jefferson St. Nashville, Tenn. Single fold die cut. Approx. 9" x 5". Ca. 1950. Charming souvenir menu from this long time Nashville BBQ house. Nice condition. $50.00

9. [Food - Menus] Coon Chicken Inn. Seattle - Portland - Salt Lake City. Single fold die-cut menu. 8" x 6"; opens to 8" x 12". Ca.1950. Two glue spots on rear cover, else fine condition.

Scarce original menu from the legendary small chain of fried chicken restaurants, noted for their excellent food but mostly remembered today for their now infamous caricature logo which was also employed at the entrance to the restaurants...patrons entered and exited through the mouth of the grinning black mouth.

The Seattle branch opened in 1929 and was both popular and controversial from the start. It closed in 1949, as did the one in Portland. The Salt Like City location lingered until 1957 and that was the end of the Coon Chicken Inn.

There are many reprint and flat-out fake Coon Chicken Inn items being offered by unscrupulous and /or ignorant sellers, but original material has become rather uncommon. Despite the glue damage on the back cover, this is a very nice example of the real thing. $100.00

10. [Food - Menus] Shangri – la Motel Restaurant. Dodge City, Kansas. Glossy stock, single fold. 10" x 7.75". Ca. 1950. The image in our popular culture of Dodge City is one of the lawless days in the Old West, and a town where law and order was established at the hands of Wyatt Earp.

But things had quieted down enough by the middle of the 20th century that the proprietors of this establishment were able to offer their version of a peaceful exotic oasis: "While it is impossible to reproduce the wonders of Shangri-La in its entirety, the management has endeavored to provide you with as much of the pleasant atmosphere as is possible..." The menu also offers this wise observation: "The best is never the cheapest...the cheapest is never the best."

Note that on the front cover they also claim: "Primarily Recommended By Our Patrons"...no doubt a slap at Duncan Hines, who seemingly did not see fit to include them in his popular travel guide books!

Prices are a little higher than one might have imagined for such an out-of-the-way location, with dinners running as high as $3.00. They also offered a rather ambitious list of sea foods, including lobster tails, perch, Rainbow Trout, eastern oysters, New England scallops, etc., "available only when market fresh."

A couple of tape marks to the interior, else a fine copy of this attractive menu. $50.00

11. [Food - Menus - drink lists] Clover Leaf Club. Pueblo's Most Attractive Night Spot. Single fold. 10.25" x 6.5". CA. 1935 - 40. Stylish post-repeal drink list for this road house, which also featured "Special Table d'Hote Dinners." Fine condition. $60.00

12. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., to Which is Prefixed Some Accounts of His Life and Writings. London: Samuel Richards and Co., 1823. "New edition". Six 5.5" x 3.5" volumes. Each volume bound in full red straight grained morocco, with gilt rules and floral patterned borders, gilt spine lettering, raised bands, all edges gilt. With lightly varied darkening to the spines, some light general wear, overall a nice VG+ condition set. $75.00

13. Hammer, J. de. Translated by J.J. Hellert. Histoire de L'Empire Ottoman. [WITH] Nouvel - Atlas, physique, politique et historique de l'empire Ottoman et des états limitrophes en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique. Paris: Bellizard, Barthes, Dufour et Lowell, 1835 - 1844. Eighteen 8.5" x 5.5" volumes, plus a folio atlas. The text volumes are bound in brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. With some scattered soiling to a few volumes, volume one lacking the front blank, and there is a very mild bit of internal soiling. Generally a nice VG+ condition set. One map has a closed margin tear, and the penultimate blank has a damaged spot along the bottom, about 3 square inches. The rare 21" x 14" atlas (dated 1844) is bound in quarter leather, top edge gilt. The binding (and especially the top corners) are a little rubbed and worn, but still a VG+ example of this scarce atlas. The atlas is complete, with two folding charts and forty engraved maps and plans. (The list of plates calls only for 39 maps, but a 40th map with the same Hellert imprint is also present.] Eight of the text volumes feature foldout genealogical charts at the backs. No complete set of this landmark work has appeared at auction (per ABPC) since 2002. $3,000.00

14. Holmes, A. Bromley. The Electric Light Popularly Explained. London: Bemrose & Sons, 1882. 7.25" x 4.75". 104pp. Blue flexible paper boards with silver lettering. Light rubbing, with a little loss of paper at the spine tips, else VG+ condition. A decent copy of a fragile book. Second edition. With illustrations from drawings. With chapters covering frictional electricity, magnetic electricity, electric measurement, magneto-electric generators, sources of power, conductors, storage of electricity, and more. $125.00

15. [Ireland] A most exact relation of a great victory, obtained by the poor Protestants in Ireland,: under the command of the Lords Inchequeen, and Kinealmekie, and Sir Charles Vavasour, against the rebells. Also severall depositions taken before the maior of Kinsale, concerning ships, men, and ammunition, sent to the rebels from France and Spain. Sent from the maior of Kinsale, to a brother of his a merchant in London. Presented to the high court of Parliament, and commanded to be forthwith printed. London: Printed for Joseph Hunscott, 1642. 7.5" x 5.5". 16pp. Bound in modern marbled paper covered boards with a red morocco spine with gilt spine lettering; modern extra blanks bound in. Bound by the James Macdonald Company of New York. The binding is in near fine condition. The text block in near fine condition. A very scarce work concerning the devastating Irish rebellion of 1641. $450.00

16. Iwasaki, Yozan T. & Glenn Hughes, translators. Three Modern Japanese Plays. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, 1923. First edition. 7.25" x 5". 104pp. Black and red paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; very nice jacket with a somewhat faded spine. This copy signed and inscribed by Hughes to Seattle painter Walter Isaacs. $45.00

17. Leighton, Clare. Four Hedges. A Gardener's Chronicle. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. First edition. 10.25" x 7.5". 167pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. A near fine copy in a nice, bright dust wrapper with a lightly darkened spine and some tiny chipping at the spine tips. This classic chatty work on gardening includes dozens of illustrations after woodcuts by Leighton. $100.00

18. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Two 9.25" x 6". 406, 399pp. Beige cloth with green leather spine labels, in the original slipcase. Bookplates, else fine condition. With illustrations from etchings by John Sloan and an introduction by Theodore Dreiser. This edition limited to 1500 copies, each signed by the illustrator. $100.00

19. Morrow, E. Frederic. Forty Years a Guinea Pig. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1980. First edition. 8.25" x 5.25". 235pp. Gray cloth, in dust wrapper. Small spot on the fore edge, else near fine condition. Near fine jacket. This copy signed by the author on the first leaf. Subtitled “A black man's view from the top" this book is a memoir of an African - American army officer and business executive. Morrow was also the first African American to hold an executive position at the White House, serving President Dwight Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961. $50.00

20. Moulton, Richard G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. : Clarendon Press, 1893. 7.5" x 4.75". 443pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Light general wear, with a few margin marks (by Parrington), else nice VG+ condition. Third edition. With the 1893 ownership signature of Pulitzer Prize winner Vernon Parrington. Parrington was an American historian, author, Harvard graduate, University of Oklahoma instructor (and second head football coach), and University of Washington faculty member. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his classic work Main Currents of American Thought. $20.00

21. [Mountaineering] Baume, Louis C. Sivalaya. Explorations of the 8000 - Metre Peaks of the Himalayas. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1979. First American edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 348pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Mild soiling, else fine condition. With chapters on Everest, Annapurna, Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I and II, K2, etc. With a bibliography and illustrations from drawings. This copy signed by noted mountaineers Jamling [Norgay], Kurt Diemberger, Tom Hornbein, and Chris Bonington. $60.00

22. [Mountaineering] Habeler, Peter. Translated by David Heald. The Lonely Victory. Mount Everest, '78. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. First American edition. 9.25" x 6.25". 224pp. Blue paper covered boards with a white cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Small remainder mark along the bottom edge, else fine condition; nice VG+ jacket with mild edge wear. With dozens of color and black & white photo illustrations, including pictorial endpapers. A compelling and detailed account of Reinhold Messner's ascent of the world's highest peak without the use of artificial oxygen. This copy signed by Messner on the title page. $75.00

23. [Mountaineering] Messner, Reinhold. Translated by Jill Neate. Reinhold Messner, Free Spirit. A Climber's Life. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1991. First American edition. 9.5" x 6.5". 250pp. Black cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. With dozens of color and black & white photo illustrations, including pictorial endpapers, as well as drawings. This copy signed by Messner on the half title page. A memoir of the legendary mountaineer's career. $65.00

24. [Movies] Original black & white photographic portrait of Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford. 8" x 10". With a couple unobtrusive creases, else nice VG+ condition. Signed by Redford , although the signature is a bit obscured by the dark spots in the image. An interesting image, showing Pollack hoisting a camera, with Redford observing from behind. The shot is almost certainly from the set of the 1973 classic film The Way We Were. $35.00

25. [Occult] Waite, Arthur Edward, translator. Turba Philosophorum. [No place]: Ouroboros Press, 2006. First edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 157pp., plus 5pp. publisher's catalog. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. As new condition. One of only 700 copies printed. "Known unto the Wise as the Crowd of Philosophers, this twelfth century treatise records the meeting of the "Hermetic Association for the Advancement of Alchemy" and gives voice to the alchemical wisdom of several centuries. From Pythagoras to the Thrice - Greatest Hermes, the Adepts converse on the keys of the Royal Art and the nature of the Magnum Opus in their pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone. Arthur Edward Waite's translation of the Turba Philosophorum remains the most complete to date due to the fact that he examined the many variant Latin manuscripts. There were two versions of the Turba; a short version and a long version, and in cases where textual differences occurred, Waite was sure to note them. This new edition has retained those important words of wisdom. $100.00

26. [Oregon] Smith, Wallace. Oregon Sketches. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. 8.5" x 5.5". 247pp. Blue cloth with orange lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Nice VG+ jacket with a mild bit of edge wear. With the bookplate of photographer Carl Lomen. Lomen was known as The King of , because of his role in "organizing, promoting, marketing, and lobbying for the reindeer industry" in the first decades of the 20th century, as president of the Lomen Company. This collection includes anecdotes about cowboys and Indians, prospectors, and ranching in the Great Northwest. With many illustrations from drawings. $75.00

27. [Paleography] Jenkinson, Hilary. The Later Court Hand in England from the Fifteenth Century to the Seventeenth Century. Illustrated from the Common Paper of the Scrivener's Company of London. The English Writing Masters, and the Public Records. [Text volume and portfolio of plates]. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1969. 15" x 10.75". 200pp., plus portfolio box with five alphabet plates and 44 facsimile plates. Text volume in blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Boards slightly bowed, else near fine condition; the jacket is somewhat worn and soiled and soiled. The plates are generally in near fine or better condition. $75.00

28. [Science] Lorentz, Prof. H.A. The Einstein Theory of Relativity. A Concise Statement. New York: Brentano's, 1920. First edition. 7.5" x 4.75". 64pp. Blue paper boards, beige cloth spine. Boards slightly faded at the edges, offsetting on the rear endpapers, else VG+ condition. Lorentz was one of the most highly respected scientists of his time. The so- called Lorentz transformation (1904) was based on the fact that electromagnetic forces between charges are subject to slight alterations due to their motion, resulting in a minute contraction in the size of moving bodies. It not only adequately explains the apparent absence of the relative motion of the Earth with respect to the ether, as indicated by the experiments of Michelson and Morley, but also paved the way for Einstein's special theory of relativity. $25.00

29. [Sports] Heigh For Cotswold. A Brief Account of the Cotswold Games. (Evesham, ): Red Apple Press, 1965. 5" x 4". 5pp. Sewn wrappers, with a printed label on the front wrapper. Near fine condition. Limited edition; one of only 110 copies printed. The Cotswold Games, also known as the Cotswold Olimpick Games, is an annual public celebration of games and sports now held on the Friday after Spring Bank Holiday near , in the of England. The Games probably began in 1622, and have continued on and off to the present day. Events have included the tug of war, gymkhana, shin-kicking, dwile flonking, motorcycle scrambling, judo, piano smashing, morris dancing, and, in 1976, poetry. The text of this booklet was reprinted from an 1863 volume entitled The Book of Days. $25.00

30. Sterne, Laurence & Jonathan Swift. A Sentimental Journey. [BOUND WITH] A Tale of a Tub. London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1882. 7.5" x 5". 394pp. Three quarter crushed brown morroco, gilt spine lettering, raised bands, light brown cloth boards. Bound by Bayntun. Fine condition. With engraved illustrations. A nice edition of these two classics. $75.00

31. [Utopian Fiction] Dague, R. A. Henry Ashton. A Thrilling Story and How the Famous Co- operative Commonwealth was Established in Zanland. Alameda, California: Published by the author, 1903. 6.75" x 4". 235pp. Beige cloth stamped in dark brown. Fine, bright condition. With the union manufacture disclaimer mounted on the front paste down. With a frontis portrait of the author. A novel about a Utopian community established off the coast of California. See Sargent 65; Negley 252; Hanna 894. $60.00

32. Washington, Booker T. The Future of the American Negro. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1900. Third edition. 7.5" x 4.75". 244pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Spine with a hint of darkening, neat ownership signature, spine tips lightly rubbed; nice VG+condition. $75.00

33. Woman's Year Book. Containing for each day a quotation about woman - also ample space wherein she may write her own thoughts and deeds. The whole collected and arranged by two Wells College Girls. Toledo, Ohio: The Merrill Press, [circa 1910]. 6.75" x 6.75". Appr. 45pp. Color illustrated paper covered boards with a beige suede spine. Light soiling, else near fine condition. The title page has a beautiful woodcut floral border, and the book is printed in black and red throughout. Printed in an unusual format - every other page of this curious book is trimmed to form a half - page, covering a blank are meant for note taking. None of the blank areas in this copy have been written in.