Language: English
Published by Oregon Journal, Portland, Or., 1947
Seller: Mount Angel Abbey Library, St. Benedict, OR, U.S.A.
Hard Bound. Condition: Good. Clean pages and text with tight binding. Cover a little bowed otherwise clean. Ex-library book with stamps, removal marks. Many black and white photos taken from the helicopter. We are a Benedictine Abbey/Seminary Library. We appreciate your business.
Published by Oregon Journal, Portland, 1947
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. 4to. (28 cm.) Unpaged [94p.]. Profusely (!) illustrated with black and white captioned photos, mostly of aerial shots taken from the helicopter and including several of Jackson. Endpapers are black and white photos: the front endpapers comprise a photo of an Indian camp of tepees, the rear endpapers comprise a photo of the Columbia River just to the west of HKood River. Green cloth with orange letters on the front cover and the spine and with a vignette in orange of the front cover of a helicopter surprising a startled man sitting at his typewriter. Just touches of wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, cloth clean and bright, pages turning ever so slightly, minor sticker stain at top of title page, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. "This edition of The Newsroom Dragonfly, unchanged in text from the first edition, is published for members of the Oregon Journal-KALE organization. It is a memorial to one of the authors, C.S. Jackson, associate publisher of The Journal, and general manager of KALE, who was killed in a tragic accident with the helicopter on December 21, 1947. A landing, in which the copter nosed over, cracked up and burned, cost him his life." [from In Memoriam" at the beginning of this book] Charles Samuel "Sam" Jackson [1914-1947] was the grandson of C.S. Jackson, founder of the Oregon Journal.
Published by Oregon Journal, Portland, 1947
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Original green cloth titled in orange, pictorial endpages. Special edition, published for members of the Oregon Journal-KALE organization. Boards flare slightly . Numerous b/w photos. The DJ in mylar is rubbed to joints, nicked to points, with an edge crease/tear. ; quarto.