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The Dean-Hicks Company, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library, with defects typical of this condition such as stamps on the edge of the text block, a scuffed looking patch where a pouch was removed from the inside front board. Some bumping to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. Spine is solid and firm, and the text block is firmly attached. Text block is clean and unmarked, aside from some light age toning. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in tall. Year: 1925.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Dean-Hicks Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Compiled by His Daughters: Kate Ball Powers, Flora Ball Hopkins, Lucy Ball. Eight illustrations. John Ball (1794-1884) spent just one of his eighty-nine years in Oregon but has been widely recognized as the first school teacher in the Oregon Country. He also made some interesting observations about Oregon in his letters and reminiscences. Original green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Internally crisp and clean. Mild bump to the bottom corners. The dust jacket is a trifle rubbed, with the title handwritten in ink on the spine head; otherwise very good.

Glendale Ca: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Plates. Xi, 231 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. Fine, No Names Or Marks Or Wear. Dj Lightly Used, No Tears Or Chips Or Fading, Three Vertical Creases On And Around Spine Where Dj Folded For Storage In The Book. Front Flap Mostly Excised, As On All Or Almost All Copies.

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Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. First Edition. 230pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth with title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Well written memoir by the early Oregon pioneer and Michigan promoter, who's travels also took him to Hawaii, Rio de Janeiro and around the Cape. "The autobiography was written by Mr. Ball in his eightieth year, 1874, being taken from scanty diaries kept on his trips; old letters, and from memory. It was written in a journal and the manuscript is more legible than the writing of many a younger man. It is not only of local historical value but of national interest, dealing with the early history of New England, where he was born, early Michigan and pioneer western history, Mr. Ball having been a member of the third expedition to cross the Rocky Mountains." - 'Grand Rapids Chronicle' May 29, 1925.

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925., 1925. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 244 pp., preface, frontis, and several illustrations. Compiled by Ball's daughters: Kate Ball Powers, Flora Ball Hopkins, and Lucy Ball. Born in 1794, John Ball was a graduate of Darmouth College. He was a member of the Wyeth Expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1832, joined Milton Sublette trapping beaver, he journeyed westward to the Pacific, wintered at Fort Vancouver with Dr. John McLoughlin, went on to California, and then went to the Sandwich Islands, returning home on the U.S. Schooner Boxer after shipping around the horn on the whaling vessel, Nautillus. A fascinating narrative of Ball's experiences. The Arthur H. Clark Company acquired the existing inventory of this book and reissued it with a new title page. As New, with original Arthur H. Clark Company prospectus.

Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks Company, 1925., 1925. First edition. First edition. First Issue. Cloth, 244 pp., preface, frontis, and several illustrations. Compiled by Ball's daughters: Kate Ball Powers, Flora Ball Hopkins, and Lucy Ball. Born in 1794, John Ball was a graduate of Darmouth College. He was a member of the Wyeth Expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1832, joined Milton Sublette trapping beaver, he journeyed westward to the Pacific, wintered at Fort Vancouver with Dr. John McLoughlin, went on to California, and then went to the Sandwich Islands, returning home on the U.S. Schooner Boxer after shipping around the horn on the whaling vessel, Nautillus. Provides an account of: Sublette's expedition across the plains to the 1832 Pierre's Hole rendezvous, the famous battle with the Blackfeet that occurred there, the continuation of Wythe's remaining men to Oregon, and the first settlements in Oregon. A fascinating narrative of Ball's experiences. Very slight wear to top of… Read More