Denny Arthur A (17 results)

PAPERBACK. Limited edition. 74pp, octavo. one of 60 copies. mild cover wear, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good-.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 174 pages. Delmore Schwartz "The Fiction of Ernest Hemingway" / Robert Penn Warren - poems / Irving Singer "The World of George Santayana" / Charles and Sidney Cowell "Charles Ives and His Music" / Una Johnson "Contemporary American Drawings" / David Riesman and Reuel Denny "Football in America" / John Kenneth Galbraith "The Businessman as Philosopher" / Udora Welty "Circe - A Story" / Arthur Berger "Recordings of American Music" / F W Duper "Letter From New York" (U.P.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "Fair" condition hardcover book, first edition, 1908. Unnumbered. A two-inch water stain on most pages. A gift inscription dated Christmas 1908 on ffep. The photo attached to the front cover is only lightly worn and clearly shows the face.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. (10 preliminary pages), 83 pages (reproducing the text of the 1888 edition), near fine condition in cloth binding, titled on the front board, top and bottom of spine bumped, number 286 of 519 numbered copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 519 numbered copies printed, this being #242. A facsimile of Thomas Prosch's copy with his corrections to the text. [16] + 88pp. Introduction by William Katz. Brown cloth with silver stamped titles to front board. Previous owner's name to the top of the ffep, else a Very Good copy. See HOWES D253a, SMITH 2408, SOLIDAY II -323.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Brown cloth stamped with silver titles. Signed by Denny and in a custom-made clamshell protective case with gilt titles on the spine. Errata slip tipped in at page 83. Seattle was founded in 1851 when the Denny party landed at Alki Point in November of that year. Members of the party had scouted the area before and the rest of the 13 men, women and children arrived in November. The party traveled from Illinois via Portland OR and was headed by Arthur A. Denny (1822-1899) who became the leading citizen of the community as it grew over the next few decades. Issued in 1888, this small privately-printed memoir describes the early days of Seattle -- and is the first actual book discussing and describing the history of the city. This copy is inscribed on the front endpaper by Denny to "Dr. James T. White compliments of A. A. Denny". A faint pencil note below in another hand (possibly White's?) notes: "Seattle, Wash. June 29 "98." The date indicates that Denny likely inscribed it just a few days after his 76th birthday and less than three months before he died. Dr. White was an accomplished person who sailed on several explorations to the waters of Alaska and the Arctic. The book was apparently printed in an edition of 300 copes, for Denny to give to friends and associates. It is somewhat uncommon, especially signed. This is an exceptionally nice copy, housed in a very fine clamshell case of brown cloth with gilt-stamped Morocco spine. Signed by Author(s).…

Numerous plates. 1 vols. 12mo. One of 850 copies. Second edition. One of 850 copies. Second edition. Numerous plates. 1 vols. 12mo. Expanded and illustrated second edition, limited to 850 numbered copies (this copy out of series).Denny relates his account of his overland trip from Illinois begun in April 1851, arriving in late August. Included herein is much material pertinent to the history of the area, trouble with the Indians, and the beginnings of commerce in the Far Northwest. Denny later served as congressman for Washington Territory. Howes states that many copies of the original 1888 edition were burned. Howes D253a; Smith 2409. Howes D253a; Smith 2409 Publisher's green pictorial cloth, some wear and abrasions. Presentation copy inscribed by Mary Denny, the author's daughter, to Mrs. Littell. Provenance: O. B. Littell (inked stamp).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Scarce copy in the original dust jacket. One of 850 copies, this copy is out of series and is not signed or numbered. 103pp. + 35 full-page photographic illustrations, index. Folding map. Illustrated green cloth. Cameo style photograph of Denny inset on front panel. A Very Good copy with a touch of light wear to the cloth, usual wear to the white stamped titles on the front board; overall a nice copy, in better condition than usually found. // See HOWES D253a, SMITH 2408, SOLIDAY II -323, WASHINGTON 89:12.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 12mo. Pp. 103, xxxv plates, [11] index. Frontis. portrait photograph with printed tissue guard. Illustrated with b & w photo reproductions, facsimiles and a fold-out map. Title page printed in red and black, decorative initial caps, Strathmore watermarked paper. Green publisher's cloth, titles and illustration stamped in white with mounted portrait. Rear hinge cracked; front hinge starting. Edition limited to 850, this copy 110. Inscribed by the author "To / Mr & Mrs R.H. Hewitt / with kindest regards / from / Mary A. Denny + Lenna." Mary Ann Boren Denny (1822-1910) is considered the "mother of Seattle," having founded the city with her husband (and book author) Arthur Denny in the early 1850s.This edition is dedicated to her.R.H. Hewitt wrote Notes By the Way. Originally published in 1863 in Olympia, Washington, it chronicled a mule-train journey from Dundee, Illinois, to Olympia, Washington, between May 7 and November 3, 1862. (His account was expanded into the 1906 book Across the Plains and Over the Divide.) A strong association between two Puget Sound pioneers The energetic Arthur Denny's priceless recollections of his family's arrival on Puget Sound and the founding and early development of Seattle. The 1888 first edition of his work had been almost completely consumed by the Great Seattle Fire, so scarcity as well as interest led to this dignified, augmented first reprint. Harriman was a rarity in publishing - for being female, and for the high quality of her productions. SMITH, 2409. See HOWES, D253a; see SOLIDAY II, 323. Signed.…

Condition: Good. None. [Washington] Pioneer Days on Puget Sound, Arthur A. Denny, C.B. Bagley, Printer, Seattle, Washington Territory, 1888. 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches, 83pp. Original brown cloth boards with faded silver imprint. Moderate wear to edges with light soiling. First endpaper missing. First leaf becoming loose, otherwise binding is tight, and interior is clean. Errata sheet tipped in at page 83. Good Condition. Classic, and somewhat uncommon story of the founding of Seattle by Arthur Denny who led the party who stepped ashore at Alkali Point in November 1851. The book is Denny's telling of his first ten years in Seattle. Printed by Clarence Bagley an early Seattle newspaperman. Supposedly 300 copies were printed with many destroyed in the Seattle fire of 1889 which burned Bagley's printshop. Re-printed several times. George Tweney, in "The Washington 89" calls "Pioneer Days in Seattle" one of the rarest of early Washington Territorial imprints. Washington 89: 12, Graff 1053, Howes D253a.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. [3], 4 - 83. Errata slip tipped in at p. 83, as usual. Bound in brown cloth with silver lettering stamped on front cover, covers ruled in blind. Lacking front free endpaper. Light wear to edges, with corners just a tad frayed.This copy with a 1909 gift inscription from Mary L. Sinclair, nee, Mary Low, who, as a child of John Low, joined the Denny Party near American Falls in present-day Idaho, and eventually sailed from Portland to Seattle on the schooner Exact. Mary Low Sinclair eventually settled in the city of Snohomish, and was indeed the first white woman to settle in Snohomish County. Laid in is a postcard, ca. 1910, mounted on cardstock, showing the original Denny cabin at Alki. On the verso is written, "A souvenir of one of the earliest homes on Puget Sound. Built by A. A. Denny in the spring of 1852 at Alki Point, and a duplicate of a cabin built by John N. Low, a few months earlier. Presented to Mrs. K. K. Keeler by Mary L. Sinclair, One of the Original Pioneers." Two short newspaper clippings, 1922, are tipped in to the front pastedown. The energetic pioneer's priceless recollections of his arrival on Puget Sound and the founding and early development of Seattle. Includes a good account of the Indian attack on the village of Seattle, 1855.Apocrypha suggests the 1888 first edition of his work had been almost completely consumed by the Great Seattle Fire. Bagley did lose his print shop to the fire, but distribution of the book must have occurred before the June 1889 disaster. SMITH, 2408; HOWES, D253a; SOLIDAY II, 323; TWENEY 89, 12.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. [3], 4 - 83. Errata slip tipped in at p. 83, as usual. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front cover, covers ruled in blind, turquoise endpapers. Spine ends and corners rubbed, spine sunned, light scars and stains, stamped titles moderately oxidized, front free endpaper missing, lower corner of first flyleaf torn away, previous owner signed in pencil on the rear pastedown and pencil annotation on p. 69. In a variant publisher's binding of red cloth, not cited by Tweney. The pencil annotation on p. 69 corrects the starting date of the Indian attack on Seattle.The energetic pioneer's priceless recollections of his arrival on Puget Sound and the founding and early development of Seattle. Includes a good account of the Indian attack on the village of Seattle, 1855.Apocrypha suggests the 1888 first edition of his work had been almost completely consumed by the Great Seattle Fire. Bagley did lose his print shop to the fire, but distribution of the book must have occurred before the June 1889 disaster. SMITH, 2408; HOWES, D253a; SOLIDAY II, 323; TWENEY 89, 12. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 12mo, [3], 83pp., errata tipped-in at pg 83. Brown cloth with silver lettering and ruled in blind. Very good with most of the silver worn away and some staining and discoloration, mainly to rear board. Presentation copy, signed by Denny on the ffep, to A. W. Stewart, a notary public in W.T., the book containing several instances of his embossed stamp throughout. The first-hand account of the founding of Seattle by the leader of The Denny Party, which left Illinois in the Spring of 1851 and arrived in the Puget Sound area several months later. The book describes in detail their journey, the claiming of land on Alki Point, securing supplies, the early saw mills, and much more. Only a small number of this volume were privately printed by Denny's friend and newspaperman, Clarence Bagley. As noted by Howes, "many copies [were] burned," presumably in the Seattle fire of 1889. A scarce, and authoritative source on the early days of Seattle, presented and signed by Arthur A. Denny. Graff 1053, Howes D253a, Smith 2408, Tweney 12.…

[WASHINGTON]. 6 3/4" x 4 3/4" in brown printed boards with title in silver. 83 pp., errata. Pioneer Arthur A. Denny writes about the early days of Seattle as he remembers cabins and sawmills, steamboats on the Sound, Indians, soldiers and settlers. Denny was the leading founder of the town of Seattle. In 1851 he left Illinois and migrated westward with his family and acquaintances, intending to settle in the Willamette Valley. Hearing about the area around Puget Sound, the Denny Party sailed from Portland, landed at Alki Point in November 1851, and four months later staked claim to land along the eastern shore of Elliott Bay, in what would become the city of Seattle. A surveyor by trade, Denny helped lay out the real estate that formed a large part of the pioneer economy. He served as postmaster, merchant, banker, and legislator. Over the course of his life, Denny witnessed or participated in most of the key events in early Seattle history to include the founding in 1851-52, the Indians? attack on Seattle in 1856, the creation and siting of the University of Washington in the early 1860s, the courtship of railroad companies during the 1870s, and the labor unrest and anti-Chinese movement of the 1880s. In 1843 Denny married Mary Ann Boren, and together they had six children. Mary Ann Denny neatly wrote on the rear free endpaper, ?Mrs. Dullie Miller from Mrs. Mary A. Denny, June 11, 1905." A fine copy.…