Wallace Parrott (3 results)

Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. F Alden Weeks (cover), Floyd Davis (Calm Yourself), Rovert O Reid (The Downey Peach), Saul Tepper (A Matter of Shoes), Mario Cooper (Some Bums are Nice), August Bleser, Jr (Merchant Princess), Beran (It's Funny About My Face) (illustrator). First Edition. The June issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include: Calm Yourself, part I of a novel by Edward Hope (Edward Hope Coffey, Jr), The Downey Peach, a story by Don Marquis, A Matter of Shoes, a story by Leona Dalrymple, Some Bums are Nice, a story by Margaret Craven, Merchant Princess, part III of a novel by Ursula Parrott, Smooth - an "Interesting People" profile of bandleader Fred Waring, Softie - an "Interesting People" profile of Academy Award winning actor Wallace Berry, It's Funny About My Face, an article by Wallace Berry, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include edge wear with small closed tears to the front & back covers, darkening along to top edge & spine of the front cover, light wear to the spine with a tear toward the center, light damp stain to the top corner of the pages, and occasional small dark streaks to the edges of the pages. Generally the interior is clean and tight. A fair to good copy of a vintage magazine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reid, R. (cover); Coleman, Ralph Pallen; Crosman, John; Reuswigg, William; Mitchell, Charles D.; Clark, Benton; Pruett, Carter; Hollingsworth, Will; Haggelrils, M.; Rothschild, Blanche; Des Vignes, Jean (illustrator). First Edition. 100 pages. Features: The Road to The Left (part I); Visiting Man; Salute! - There Goes Romance; Plain Nice; Quite Happily Married; From This Day Forward; Nice one-page color ad for Campbell's soup shows 21 cans of their various flavours; Classy one-page color Camay soap ad features lady sought by gents on horse farm; Ponds cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel III; Vintage one-page color ad for Camel cigarettes features illustrations of Mrs. J. Gardner Coolidge, 2nd, Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie, Jr., and Mrs. James Russell Lowell, plus endorsements by Miss Mary Byrd, Miss Alice Byrd, Mrs. Powell Cabot, Miss Anne Gould and Mrs. Potter d'Orsay Palmer; Photo of Miss Ruth Linton of St. Paul, MN as she endorses Nujol; One-page ad for Listerine toothpaste features photos of illustrator Dan Content and Betty Cook; Fascinating half-page photo ad sponsored by the California Fruit Growers Exchange proclaims "Tooth decay reduced 57% with fresh orange and lemon juice"; One-page illustrated ad for the new Ford V-8; Vintage one-page color ad for Sunkist oranges; Berry Shortcake recipe; Interior design article; Certo ad features photo of Iowa jelly and jam champion Mrs. C. Osborne; Very attractive one-page color-illustrated ad for Wesson Oil (to be used in mayonnaise) features pastel country scene; Bisquick ad features photo of Eleanor H. Dewey of Minneapolis; One-page Pond's face powder ad features color illustrations of Miss Whitney Bourne, Miss Charlotte Young, Miss Lilla Fiskk, Miss Mary Weld, Mrs. Edward Burns and Mrs. Frederic Bellinger; Several pages of lovely color illustrations of ladies' dress fashions; Photo of Edna Wallace Hopper in ad for her "Special Restorative (skin) Cream"; Vintage color comic-format ad for Lifebuoy and Rinso inside back cover cover topics such as B.O. and clothes boiling; Nice color-photo ad for Ivory Soap on back cover; and much more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Openings at each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this delightful vintage issue.

Condition: Good. Rare Mining View Book, Views of the Clifton-Morenci Copper Belt, or Views of the Clifton-Morenci Copper Belt of Arizona, Photo-Gravures, Albertype Co., Brooklyn, New York, S. Wallace Parrott, Morenci, Arizona, circa 1901, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, 16 unnumbered leaves plus title page. Ribbon-bound booklet, heavily toned pictorial wrappers; wrappers brittle, with a few chips and moderate edge wear; a few fingerprints to first interior page, else interior clean, unmarked; black and white photographs printed on every page. Overall good condition. A rare and interesting piece of Arizona mining history, this view book contains photogravures of the Clifton-Morenci copper mines, mining camps and company towns. Each of the 16 leaves contains 1-6 photogravure images with printed titles. Views include the towns of Clifton and Morenci, a "Mexican Celebration" in 1901, mule teams, and views around the mining camps. One page is titled "Places of Trouble", showing the Morenci and Clifton jails and a precariously thin suspension bridge in Clifton. Other pages show the two towns' amenities stores, hospitals, churches, a schoolhouse, and residences of the mine owner and superintendent, James Colcahoun and Paul Nicholas. The final page is dedicated to the local Chinese laborers, with three images titled "The Vegetable Chinaman", "The Pie Chinaman", and "Jim Hammond - Chinaman - Boarding House and Longfellow Tunnel". The workforce of the Clifton-Morenci mining towns consisted of first Mexican laborers, then Chinese, who were brought to the district in 1877 because they were more willing to do dangerous mining work. Clifton was one of the sites of the 1983 Arizona copper mine strike, which resulted in the decertification of 35 locals of 13 different unions and is regarded as a staggering defeat for American unions. James Colcahoun (1857-1954) was a Scottish-born American mining titan. He moved to America to work for the Scottish-owned Arizona Copper Company (ACC), beginning as an assayer and quickly moving up through the ranks and eventually becoming the general manager of ACC Morenci operations. He pioneered a technique to leach low-grade porphyry copper ores in large quantities, which was so successful that ACC profits increased 1000% from 1893 to 1896, saving the company from serious financial trouble brought about by fluctuations in copper prices. Two copies in OCLC as of January 2024.