Blow for the Landing: A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West - INSCRIBED to US Senator Dan Evans
Caldwell Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stout 4to. Pp. xvii, 235. Frontis. b&w photo. Illustrated with b&w photo reproductions, document facsimiles and maps. Light blue cloth with titles printed in black, endpaper maps. With index and distance tables. Title page inscribed by the author. Book plate of Daniel J. Evans and 1976 gift inscription on blank preliminary. Leaf edges minimally toned, else crisp and bright. In the photo illustrated unclipped dust jacket: head edge minimally crimped. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #9602 Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Historical vignettes of steamboats working the Pacific Northwest coast, Puget Sound, the Snake, Willamette and Columbia Rivers.
Price: $80.00