John Walker Davidson (5 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Contents are crisp, clean, complete and undamaged. Binding is loose on some pages.Book was donated to Friends of Omaha Public Library.

Condition: Good. Letter sized pages [7 pp.]. Very GoodProvenance: Jerry Kamstra ephemera from the estate of Dr. Stevanne Auerbach, including numerous photographs, a large collection of correspondence, manuscripts in various states, a spiral notebook with numerous original drawings, and various other ephemera. In all, about 2 full banker's boxes worth of material. Stevanne Auerbach (1938-2022), also known as Dr. Toy, was an American educator, child development expert, writer and toyologist, best known for being an expert on as well as an advocate of toys, play, and the toy industry. She was named one of seven Wonder Women of Toys in 2007 by Women in Toys and Playthings magazine. She made several public appearances each year to promote her causes, which include building greater awareness in parents of their essential role as play tutors for their children, the educational, and many other benefits of play, and encouraging the enhancement of play value and high standards of quality, safety, and protection of creativity in toys within the toy industry. She was friend and correspondent of R. Crumb as well as Jerry Kamstra, Walter Mondale, and others.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Walker, Many; Nettheim, Matt. (illustrator). First Edition. Unpaginated (224pp), col photographs. Or pictorial boards. Tiny nick to front of spine. Robyn Davidson's solo journey across the Australian Outback and the movie based on it. Size: Oblong Folio.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Oblong Atlas Folio. 24 x 19 in. 14 colour maps (1 large folding 17.25 x 41.5 in.). Printed softcovers, stapled and paper reinforcement at gutter margin (some minor toning & soiling to fore-edges, edgewear to spine, minor scuffing, and a couple removed label ghosting), still VG- bright copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce plat map atlas for the Matanuska coal fields and township sites surveyed by Walker & McDaniel during their surveys following those on the Kenai Peninsula. By 1912, with the act establishing Alaska as a U.S. Territory, and in 1914 the authorization to construct an Alaska Railroad, there became an increased need and demand for coal. The Matanuska mines located about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage, first began production in 1916, and would stay in continuous production through both World War I and World War II, and well into the 20th Century, re-opening again in the 21st Century. Not only do these maps show available government lease sites for coal mines, but also available Township sites for homesteaders as required by the original Homestead Acts of 1866 and the 1916 Act for Alaska requiring surveys and resurveys to accurately determine boundaries of unsold railroad lands and identify their boundaries. Worldcat locates 2 copies (Anchorage Museum & Univ. of Calgary); See: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Sixty-Fourth Congress, Index, Vol. 13 (1922), p. 74; C. Albert White, A History of the Rectangular Survey System (1983), p. 189.