Herr Willis (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 224pp., xii. Stated: "First published 1993", with no other printings or editions cited. Index, pp. 218-224. In 4 Parts: 1. Cutting across race and gender; 2. Issues of race in the midst of reform; 3. Is there a new politics of gender?; 4. Summary, reaction and critique. Black boards with brilliant gilt-stamped lettering on spine. 13pp of 224pp have short vertical red ink lines in the margins: these are found in only three essays (of 10pp, 10pp and11pp) and on only 3pp of 13 are short horizontal lines in the text, one page having 3 blue ink curls around references cited at end of essay: the artifact is essentially in Like New condition, except for the ink marks: tight binding, very sharp corners (NO bumps), NO rubbing wear. Glossy white dustwrapper illustrated with dark pink and olive abstract geometrical design at center front cover, below title and editor name lettering in black and dark rose, respectively; medium pink and dark pink vertical strips down right front cover edge; 1/4" tear at lower right corner (now backed with archival tape), with associated minor creases to bottom front cover edge, evidently resulting from bump to lower dw edge (rear cover lower edge is As New); very slight horizontal curling to top dw edges, due to dw riding too high on book; sliver of horizontal triangular stain at very bottom of dustwrapper, with NO corresponding impact on very base of spine. No previous owner names.

Condition: Good. xvi, pp 1-191 [plates] The second volume of the Transactions of the Institute of British Architects formerly owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The book is bound in the original brown decorated cloth with the Institute's crest in gilt on the front board. The backstrip is partly detached but the binding remains sound. The inner hinges are cracked and the half title is detached. The text is clean and complete, beginning with the list of the council and members of the society before proceeding to sections devoted to Antiquities and Construction with an article by Herr Beuth on the Berlin Museum and Charles Fowler on the Long Room of the London Custom House. A highlight of the volume is a printed letter from Michael Faraday. The bookplate of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society appears on the front pastedown together with a 'withdrawn' stamp but there are no further signs of library ownership. This book may require additional postage for shipping outside the United Kingdom. Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

Four albumen cabinet photographs, sized 3.9 x 4.9 in., mounted on thick studio board stock, sized 4.25 x 5.25 in., w/ all four containing manuscript annotations in ink on versos (minor dustsoiling, edgewear, minor over-exposure to a couple images), still a nice grouping with consistent contrast and definition. These scarce original albumen photos show the canyon, water fall power, and miners along the Hoodoo Quartz Claim, Mineral Survey No. 403A and B, which was filed originally in 1892, and are neatly numbered 3, 6, 15 & 11. The first image shows a heavily forested canyon with creek running through, and annotations on verso detailing that the "Anaconda and Roman Senator lodes at the head of gulch." The second photo shows fast running water fall and creek -- "water power that will be utilized in the development of the Stilliguamish [sic] and Sultan Mining Co's property. Copper Lake Canyon." Third photo depicts gold miners carrying and working with pick axes in "Hoodoo Canyon 500 feet higher up. . . the vein is found in the bed of the gulch at this point." The series of mines developed by the Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co. had a well-defined fissure vein, carrying iron and copper pyrites and pyrrhotite, with bell metal, all contained in a lime quartz gangue. The main tunnel was driven 420 feet on the Hoodoo ledge, with about another 200 feet of tunneling, ore concentrate worth about $83 a ton, including gold, silver and copper ores. The description on back of four describes "passageway where work was shot away for approach to Hoodoo tunnel. The snow banks in the distance and at the right are at the foot of Big Four Mountain. . . seen plainly from Monte Cristo 8 miles East." By 1905 the company was largely dormant, and later the mines would be owned by the Sykes Estate, of which the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago was the trustee. See: L.K. Hodges, Mining in the Pacific Northwest: A Complete Reivew of the Mineral Resources of Washington and British Columbia, 1897; The Copper Handbook: A Manual of the Copper Industry of the World (1905), Vol. V, p. 655; Carithers & Guard, Geology and Ore Deposits of the Sultan Basin, Snohomish County, Washington, Bulletin No. 36 (1949), pp. 49-50.