Llwyd Rev (3 results)
Published by The Shorey Book Store, Seattle, WA, 1968
Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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Add to basketStaple-bound. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Pages crisp and clean except for a prior owner's raised seal and a small rectangle of sticker staining at the first page; stapled binding secure; soft cover shows a little faint toning at the spine and slight rubbing at the spine heel, otherwise excellent.
Published by Lowman & Hanford Co, Seattle, 1909
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. 21pp. Illustrated in two colors. Sewn printed wrappers with color pictorial onlay. Wrappers with modest wear, faintly sunned spine, and a tiny corner chip on the cover, very good or better. The author's treatise on the "Seattle totem pole.".
The message of an Indian relic.
[NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS]. LLWYD, Rev. Dr. J.[ohn] P.[lummer] D.[erwent].
Published by Lowman & Hanford Co.,, Seattle:, 1909
- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. [2], 21, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut engraved totem poles as borders, illustrations, 3 sepia-tinted photographic plates. Gray printed & decorated softcovers, colour plate of Haida totem pole in downtown Seattle mounted on front cover, Arts & Crafts decorative lettering & borders, yapp edges (minor cre…asing, edgewear), still VG copy, sewn w/ red silk ribbon at gutter margin. First edition of this scarce, and well-illustrated work on the iconography of the Tlingit totem pole which had been "appropriated" in August, 1899 by a number of Seattle businessmen from the village of Tongass belonging to the family of Chief Kininook on Queen Charlotte's Island. The totem pole which stood in Pioneer Place became known as the Seattle Totem, and was featured on a wide array of tourist postcards, brochures, and travel literature. Llwyd (b. 1861) was a member of the American Archaeolgoical Society, president of the Board of Library Trustees of the City of Seattle, and served as the rector of St. Mark's Church in Seattle from 1897-1909, before leaving for a post in Toronto. See: Robin Wright, How did Totem Poles Become a Symbol of Seattle?, November 19, 2015, Burke Museum.
