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Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg. Clean near fine hard cover first edition. Has prior owner's inscription. Maynard Dixon illustrations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1931.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1912-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Gift inscription.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1907. Front free end paper excised cleanly, name in ink on fep, and verso of flyleaf; light wear to corners and edges, else very clean and tight.. 11th Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover.

Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg & Company. Good plus condition/No Dustjacket. 1916. 12th edition. Cloth. With 8 full-page illustrations. . 12mo., 280 pp., Cover frayed with spotting, spine slightly faded; hinges weak; cracked .

Chicago: A.c. McClurg & Co, 1911. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good. Illustrated by Ills by Maynard Dixon.. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. In pictorial jacket, 8vo 280pp (Light shelfwear and rubbing to extrmeities, jacket flap clipped, ink address stamps to preliminary pages).

Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg & Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1902. 7th Edition. Decorative Cloth. Sm 8vo., 280 pp., rubbed, bumped, writing on ffe .

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1918. First Edition-early Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Duodecimo. L. Maynard Dixon. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, 1922,. 1922. Hardcover. hardback reprint, 8vo, 280pp, 8 b/w illustrations by L. Maynard Dixon, owner's bookplate on endpaper, edges browned, foxing on title page, text clean and binding sound, red cloth dec., spine a bit dull, Good / no dustwrapper .

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Seventh edition and first illustrated edition. Illustrated by L. Maynard Dixon. Octavo. 280pp. Navy blue decorative cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown and gift inscription on half-title. Binding with moderate general wear, second half of the text with a very faint dampstain at the crown, about very good.

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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1907. 11th printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Eleventh printing. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, front free endpaper missing. 1907 Hard Cover. 280 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. An amalgamation of fact and legend that creates a portrait of rural Native American life in the 19th century. First published in 1890, The Bridge of the Gods is a tale of the American Indians of the Northwest. Frederic Homer Balch describes missionaries attempting to convert Native Americans to Christianity, warring tribes who try to form an alliance to drive out the white settlers, and Native American legends of how the land--its mountains and rivers--came to be. Throughout his brief life, Balch observed and interviewed the American Indians in his native Oregon. More than a compilation of stories, Balch's classic work is a portrait of the Northwest tribes: their… Leer más

Inscription FLEP "Mrs J. R. Miller, Halstead, Ks",. Next page "From Uncle Cron's house is 1 8/10 miles in which there are 27 turns in the road. How's that for a winding road? Closest town Hususme, ten miles from White Salmon, Washington". Next empty page "Lortthand, Oregon, 1927" "Mrs. Virginia LaRue Miller"
Very slight toning, else contents appear as unread & unblemished in maroon, gold gilt decorated, cloth covered boards displaying minor surface/edge/wear, as shown.
A classic of Oregon literature, Illustrated by Maynard Dixon. The author attempts to describe Indian life and character, not from an ideal standpoint, but as he knew them in his own boyhood on the Upper Columbia. History, traditions, legends of Indian tribes that inhabited Oregon country 200 years ago.
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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Hardcover. Illustrations by Maynard Dixon. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and black/pale blue pictorial stamping. xii, 280pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 7 full-page plates. Very good. Mildest of binding edgewear only; tight and internally fine and bright. Handsome ninth printing of the first illustrated 1902 edition of this tale originally published in 1890. One of the first great depictions of the Pacific Northwest landscape, this thinly-veiled autobiography offers a sympathetic account of missionaries and the Native Americans of this region. It is Balch's only novel and he died from tuberculosis at age 29 the year after its publication. A sharp, lovely copy with pristine plates.

Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1924. 26th edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. L. Maynard Dixon. Octavo, 5 in. x 7.5 in ., Brick red buckram cover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover has green/black drawing of canoe reflecting on the water. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners and bottom of spine. Spine and hinges are tight. xii + 280 pp The inscription and owner's name, dated 1926, to front endpaper; no other interior marks. Dust jacket, which includes an illustration by Dixon. occasional shelfwear,and several small chips (missing from) top and bottom of spine, and lower right corner. From the back of dust jacket: "Two hundred years ago a huge natural bridge (the Bridge of the Gods), which then spanned the Columbia Rover at the "Cascades," was the symbol of the power of the Willamettes, then head of the Confederacy of Oregon and Washington Indian tribes. Mr Batch tells the story of the first bringing of Christianity to these Indians by Cecil Grey, a New… Leer más