Octavo, paperbound (stiff, photo illus. wrappers), 54 pp. Very Good, with light rubbing & foxing (age darkened spotting) to covers. From Introduction: 250 miles. From a hidden, icy spring on the flank of a dormant volcano to an offshore canyon knifing the edge of the continent. This is the Rogue, mightiest of Oregon's coastal rivers. View More...
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Bend, Oregon: Maverick Publications, (1987). Second Edition.
Seller ID: 61377bd
Inscribed signed Parkin, one of the authors. Octavo, blue boards, 262 pp. Plates, maps. Fine in a slightly worn dust jacket. From dust jacket: As he sailed out of Boston that October morning in 1787, little did Captain Gray realize the part he would play in Jefferson's dreams for expansion -- a United States that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. For it started out quite unceremoniously, a small entrepreneurial expedition consisting of the 83-foot Columbia and a sloop, the Lady Washington. The outward voyage to the Pacific Northwest coast via the Falkland Islands took near... View More...
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Compiled and Published by the Oregon State Highway Commission, 1925.
Seller ID: 005423scs
Octavo, folding map, b& w, major travelways highlighted in red and yellow, red letters. Compliments of Shell Company of California Gasoline. Good+, with light soiling, a few small chips along folds. View More...
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Portland, Oregon: The J. K. Gill Company, [1931]. Fourth Edition.
Seller ID: 18194scs
Octavo, green illus. cloth (hardcover), 442 pp. Illustrated with drawings, photos, and maps, including State of Oregon System of State Highways, 1930. fold-out map. Good+, with former owner signature and speckling to covers. View More...
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Ashland, Oregon: Western States Museum of Broadcasting and JPR Foundation, Inc., In Cooperation with The Oregon Association of Broadcasters, (2009).
Seller ID: 335517qms
Octavo, softbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), ix, 470 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The Information Age began with the introduction of primitive radios and televisions. In sprawling, and then heavily rural, Oregon, their influence was profound. With imaginations fired by the possibilities broadcasting suddenly offered, Oregon pioneered remarkable achievements including the national phenomenon, the KGW ÒKeep Growing Wiser Order of Hoot Owls,Ó the founding of America's cable television industry in coastal Astoria; and the creation of the world's first UHF television station, K... View More...
Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 166 pp + [24] plates. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From jacket: It was a long jump from Beacon Street, Boston, to the homestead country of Central Oregon. In 1911, Section 21 was 640 acres of rattlesnake-infested sagebrush and juniper. Wild horses roamed that piece of land; coyotes prowled and howled at night. Even so, it was good, irrigable land, and the Crooked River flowed through it. The water rights plus the fine irrigation prospects sold Section 21 to my millionaire father. He, in turn, presented it to his daughter and son... View More...
