Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - March - 2008 Issue
Gene Baade Offers More Books on the West
Ishi, "the last of the wild Indians," in 1914.
Item 110 is Chuck Williams' Mount St. Helens. A Changing Landscape, published in 1980. "Changing landscape" is an understatement. That year, the entire top of the mountain was blown off by its powerful volcano. $30.
Here is a book about which Baade admits, "...the only thing ‘West' about this is that it takes place on the west side of Lake Michigan..." Item 62 is 1963's Run to Daylight, by legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. Lombardi led his Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships and victories in the first two Super Bowls. He died just three years after retiring from his position as Packers' coach after that second Super Bowl. $95.
Gene W. Baade Books on the West may be reached at 425-271-6481 or [email protected]. Their website is www.booksonthewest.com.
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
