John Oregon, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Presented by Rex Morgan who signed on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint edition. Signed by Poling on half title pape. A romance of Old World and New with an American hero and a European heroine. Tan cloth with black lettering. Publisher's promotion of other books by Dan Poling laid in. Near fine with light toning in very good dust jacket with light edge wear and dusting. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Light wear else Very Good condition. Owners inscription on endpaper from an O.E. convention in 1927. A clipped signature of the Author pasted in on the next blank page. (see pic). 1926. First Printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait after Brady and 4 plates. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Good (spine faded). Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 91/2 x 6 1/2, Green cloth, 301 pgs 2 pgs ads, includes index & 2 portrait illustrations. Signed by author in Portland in 1908. Also 1908 inscription by prior owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Author's Edition, 1 of 100 signed presentation copies. Ex-non circulating private library. Pale seafoam green cloth boards with gilt on spine. Gilt top edge. A bit of fray to head of spine. Spine shows some soiling and a light label blemish. Some leaves are unopened/uncut. A couple newspaper clippings of book reviews are affixed to the front blank flyleaves. Two portraits of McLoughlin on plates (including frontispiece). Index. 301 pp. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Presentation copy. Signed and inscribed by Holman to the Pacific-Union Club of San Francisco on the verso of the half-title page. The Pacific-Union Club was an exclusive gentleman's club, which around this time accounted among it's members William Randolph Hurst and Theodore Roosevelt Jr, as well as Portland's John Churchill Ainsworth, president of the Unites States National Bank and son of Oregon pioneer Capt. J.C. Ainsworth. This volume was a part of the Pacific-Union Club's library and has its bookplate and rubber stamp. It appears that a spine call label was removed at some point. Signed by Author(s).

Very good, among the best we've encountered for newsprint. Light wear along original fold lines. Closed margin tears professionally repaired on verso. Text on verso. Size 29.25 x 20 Inches. This is a 1936 John Hix Strange as it Seems pictorial map of Washington and Oregon. The image captures a wealth of fascinating facts about Washington and Oregon by the primary competitor of 'Ripley's Believe it or Not! A Closer Look Short texts provide facts about cities, towns, national parks, and other locations throughout Washington and Oregon. In Washington, white areas mark Mount Olympus National Park and Mount Rainier National Park. Vignettes highlight the tulip fields of Whatcom County, the apple trees of the Yakima and Wenatchee Valleys, and the tree near Chehalis that grew around an old rifle. Vignettes in Oregon illustrate Mount Hood, Oregon's logging industry, the wild horses of the Guano Valley, and the Owyhee Dam. A dashed line and a covered wagon highlight the Oregon Trail, with a tablet in Capital Park, Olympia, Washington, marking the western terminus. Strange as it Seems John Hix created Strange as it Seems in 1927. It was a comic strip detailing outlandish facts akin to Ripley's Believe it or Not! . In contrast that competing publication, Hix insisted that his facts be verified by at least three sources. In each cartoon, he included the prompt, 'If you doubt this, write for proof to the author'. Several paragraphs of explanation usually accompanied the comics. In December 1927, Hix signed with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, making him, at 20, the country's youngest nationally syndicated artist. Strange as it Seems debuted on March 28, 1928 in 50 newspapers. It consisted of a single panel featuring illustrations of unusual events, people, and places. The comic expanded to a full-page full-color edition in Sunday newspapers in February 1930, when syndication grew to 80 newspapers. In 1930, Ernest Hix (1902 - 1948), John's brother, became the comic's business manager, franchising the brand into movie shorts produced by Universal Studios - a move to compete with Ripley's , which began producing shorts through Paramount earlier in 1930. The Strange as it Seems shorts were screened at over 6,000 theaters nationwide. A hardback edition of the cartoons was published in 1931 and Strange as it Seems was syndicated in over 150 newspapers by May 1932. It also began appearing in newspapers in China, England, and Japan. The cartoons made it onto the radio in the spring of 1935, when Hix translated them into 15-minute programs. This became a 30-minute program in September 1939, and aired on CBS for 72 weeks. Ripley's Believe it or Not! opened an exhibit at the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego in May 1935, but their exhibit was deemed 'too gruesome'. Hix and Strange as it Seems were contacted by the organizers to take Ripley's place for the 1936 season. For the 1939 New York World's Fair, Hix and his brother opened a similar exhibit, outmaneuvering Ripley's . At its height, Strange as it Seems was syndicated in over 1,300 newspapers. Hix worked with the Office of Emergency Management during World War II (1939 - 1945), incorporating 70 ideas into Strange as it Seems comics to help the war effort. John Hix died on June 6, 1944. Following his death, his brother Ernest took over the business until he died in a private plane crash on September 18, 1948. After Ernest's death, his wife Elsie Elizabeth (Huber) Hix ran the business and wrote the comic strip until 1963, when she handed the business over to her son Ernest Harmon Hix Jr., who produced the comic with his wife Phyllis until it ended in 1970. Publication History and Census This map was created by John Hix and published in the July 1936 issue of the Gilmore Cub , a short magazine published by the Gilmore Oil Company. This is the only known cataloged example.