Denny, Arthur A.

[Washington] Pioneer Days on Puget Sound

Seattle, Washington Territory: C.B. Bagley, Printer, 1888. [Washington] Pioneer Days on Puget Sound, Arthur A. Denny, C.B. Bagley, Printer, Seattle, Washington Territory, 1888. 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches, 83pp.

Original brown cloth boards with faded silver imprint. Moderate wear to edges with light soiling. First endpaper missing. First leaf becoming loose, otherwise binding is tight, and interior is clean. Errata sheet tipped in at page 83. Good Condition.

Classic, and somewhat uncommon story of the founding of Seattle by Arthur Denny who led the party who stepped ashore at Alkali Point in November 1851. The book is Denny's telling of his first ten years in Seattle. Printed by Clarence Bagley an early Seattle newspaperman. Supposedly 300 copies were printed with many destroyed in the Seattle fire of 1889 which burned Bagley's printshop. Re-printed several times. George Tweney, in "The Washington 89" calls "Pioneer Days in Seattle" one of the rarest of early Washington Territorial imprints.

Washington 89: 12, Graff 1053, Howes D253a. Good / None. Item #2123

Price: $495.00