18 Men and a Horse (Eighteen)
Seattle: Metropolitan Press, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xxi, 217. Frontis. photo. Lavishly illustrated with b&w photos. Endpaper maps. Bound in full green cloth with lettering stamped in blue and gilt on cover and spine. One of several undistributed copies acquired in the publisher's original shipping box from Prentice Bloedel's Merrill Building office, following his passing. With no detracting qualities to book; slight wear to tail of dust jacket spine. As New / Near Fine. Item #6958 This first edition published a year or two prior to the firm's merger with MacMillan, forming MacMillan-Bloedel, itself eventually acquired by Weyerhauser. A limited edition was published in the late 1960s by the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, archival (and removable) sleeve.
Company history of the firm that became Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills. Contains a sketch of Peter Larson, the immigrant-entrepreneur who was involved in railroads, shipping and timber. He was also the rough-and-tumble financier who staked Bloedel. Bloedel and a partner gave him a pitch at his Seattle hotel suite, where he was recovering from the Strait of Juan de Fuca shipwreck of the S.S. Clallam. He directed Bloedel to remove a large amount of cash from his wallet, sitting on a bureau, and still soaked with saltwater.
Price: $45.00