Metz Ray (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good+. Cloth backed hardcover. Good + condition with lightly bumped corners, spine is slightly cocked, cloth with rubbing and a few light scuffs/dings, couple spots, several pages dogearred, interior with light use and very light age, otherwise the book is vg for its age, lightly used.…

Softcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, Stated. 1978. Copper Queen, Bisbee, Arizona. Paperback: blue-grey pictorial wrappers, light edge & shelf wear, faint even fading. Small marking to corner & very light scattered foxing to title page, else unmarked. Glossy b&w nineteenth-century street photographs, the 1972 Lavender Pit aerial view by Ray Manley & mining camp story illustrations, printed on thick glossy paper throughout. Unpaginated. Quarto. Compiled from the Brewery Gulch Gazette archives by longtime editor William C. Epler w/ historical research by Alice Metz, documenting the copper mining camp of Bisbee, Arizona. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Documenting the origins, municipal expansion, and mineral wealth of early Arizona, Bisbee Vignettes chronicles the historical evolution of one of the premier copper mining camps in the American Southwest. Sourced directly from serialized accounts and archival features in the historic Brewery Gulch Gazette, the text provides a detailed overview of frontier daily life, nineteenth-century commerce along Main Street, and industrial transitions across the Mule Mountains. Narrative passages examine early prospectors in Tombstone Canyon, the formation of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, and the community traditions that defined Cochise County during its boom decades. Issued in a quarto format with light blue-grey pictorial paper wrappers, the volume carries a nineteenth-century street scene on the front cover. Archival black-and-white photographs appear throughout the work, capturing early mercantile storefronts, mule pack trains, residential settlements along steep canyon slopes, and twentieth-century open-pit operations. Notable visual inclusions include an aerial survey of the Lavender Pit by Tucson photographer Ray Manley alongside period story illustrations depicting frontier humor and local folklore. Published in 1978 by the Copper Queen Publishing Company in Bisbee, Arizona, the work was authored and compiled by veteran journalist William C. Epler, longtime editor of the Brewery Gulch Gazette. Historical fact-checking and archival research were conducted by local historian Alice Metz, integrating pioneer documentation and family records preserved by early residents, including the banking and merchant family of Joseph M. Muheim Jr. Specialized sections document the structural development of the Sacramento and Lavender Pits under Phelps Dodge Corporation management alongside regional accounts of flash floods, mining operations, and civic milestones. Serving as an informative primary-source record of Southeastern Arizona industrial heritage, the publication preserves transient journalistic history and nineteenth-century photography for Western Americana researchers. Academic libraries, regional historians, and mining ephemera specialists utilize the monograph as a specialized reference work for Cochise County local history, early copper extraction technology, and late nineteenth-century mining camp society. Ray Manley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 695 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Front coverboard slightly detached from spine. Julie Metz (Jacket Design); Fletcher Sibthorpe (Jacket Painting); Chris Can Houts (Author Photo) (illustrator). …