Breath on the Mirror Seattle's Skid Road Community
Seattle: [Laurie Olin], 1972. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 55. Bound in illustrated stiff brown wraps, saddle-stapled. Illustrated throughout with the author's evocative line drawings. Contains a short bibliography. A section of rear cover is sun-faded, else Fine. Very Good. Item #1778
First printing of Olin's treatment of Skid Road, in Seattle's Pioneer Square, where the phrase was coined in reference to fresh logs being skidded down a steep hill to the first saw mill in Seattle, owned by Henry Yesler. A subsequent printing was issued in 1973. Olin's treatment of the subject is sympathetic, as reflected in chapters titled "The Crime of Being Poor" and "No Work for the Willing."
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