Cragin & Co. Catalog No. 30
Seattle: Cragin & Co., (1941). First Thus. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. xxiii; 288. With hundreds of black-and-white photos of tools and industrial supplies, including more types of hammers than we knew existed. A preliminary page presents photos of their warehouse and showrooms. Bound in pebble-grained maroon cloth with lettering and design stamped in white. on front cover and spine. With a bookplate indicating this copy was send to the Pulp Mills Research Dept. at the University of Washington in 1944. Slight edge wear to cover. Very Good. Item #5439
The 30th anniversary catalog for the longtime tool purveyor founded in 1911. Located at 932 First Avenue S. in the industrial Seattle neighborhood now known as SODO, the building is long-gone and the property was most recently known as the WOSCA site, across from Lumen Field. It was there, in 1990, that Survival Research Laboratories performed "A Carnival of Misplaced Devotion."
Price: $50.00