Kittinger Chas (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lithographed views and steel engraved portraits; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 50 pages; Circa 1890. Published by real estate agent, Charles Kittinger, to promote the sale of building lots at Tracyton, recently designated as the home of a US Naval Yard on Puget Sound. Soundly bound and neat in original gray cloth with pictorial title design to cover in black and gilt. Text block with a side stapled binding with endpages and boards laid down over the text block. A striking and significant collection of 24 lithographed views of Seattle and surrounding features printed in sepia and blue tones with a red woodcut border. Each litho view with a facing page text promoting features of Seattle. Prominent among the views are the buildings designed by architect, Emil H. Fisher, whose work in brick and metal reshaped the city center following the devastating great fire of 1889. Kittinger's text advertisemtns promoting his land sales to front and rear pastedowns. Mild shelf rubbing to cloth at corner tips' light toning to front and rear endpages. The contents are clean and very neat; the litho views bright and fresh. A very well preserved copy of this uncommon pictorial view of the rebirth of Seattle in the wake of the great conflagration. VG or better.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. 9" x 6", unpaginated oblong smaller quarto in embossed blue boards, 24 sepia/b/w/tinted ill., hc with vertically staple bound page block, gilt cover title, embossed black decor, tight binding, wear to the spine and spine ends, lays open at last page, wear to the pastedowns, foxing throughout, edge and corner wear, gift inscription "With Washington Poster's Compliments, 22031/2 Front St., Seattle", complete and collectible. A particularly rare item in Good condition, perfect for the PNW historian and bibliophile.