Big Stretch, First Edition (2 results)

Library Binding. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Ten vols. 4to. 139, [1]; 154; 200; 170; 186; 148; 152; 158; 134; 124 pp. With over 1200 photo illustrations, maps, diagrams, and illustrated ads throughout, many in colour, most in black & white. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art photos (minor scuffing, edgewear, very slight & faint tidemark to very lower edge of textblocks), still a VG- set, from the library of Stan Stueve (1910-1972), Portland, Oregon engineer, w/ mailing labels. First editions of nearly a complete run of the lavishly illustrated trade magazine for heavy equipment manufacturers, engineering firms, and construction firms in Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska during the Mid-20th-Century construction boom, which resulted in year-after-year growth in public infrastructure and capital investment, including the expansion of the Interstate Highway system, hydropower dam projects, roads, bridges, canals, and much more. Launched originally in 1907 as a weekly newspaper, this industry trade magazine eventually became monthly and later bi-monthly through the 1960's. Although several institutions do have runs of PB&E in their holdings, many of the runs are incomplete, or broken, and more than the occasional individual issue for sale in the market are quite scarce.