P R Jeffcott (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited/Numbered. Limited to 1,000 copies of which this is #188 signed by the author. Gilt-stamped green cloth. 436pp. Illus. Folding map of the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858 in the back; Whatcom County provided an important trail to the gold bars and eventually gold fields of the BC interior. The author's signature & publisher's limitation statement is on a custom bookplate affixed to the front paste down. Under it is a handwritten inscription, "To my sweetheart / on our 23rd / Wedding Anniversary / 1949 / Bob from Mildred / with love." Another former owner has printed his name above the title on the title page. Either the same or yet another owner has printed his initials on the bottom edge of the text block. LAID INTO THIS COPY is a full page T.L.S. (typed letter signed) from the Editor-Publisher of the Sedro-Woolley Courier-Times on the newspaper's letterhead. It is address by editor-publisher Frank Evans to a lady in Seattle stating that he was sending her this copy, and adds information including the fact that the author(73 years old) and his wife live on a farm, was a schoolteacher, and paid for the printing of the book from his private funds. Also laid in is a separate facsimile printing of the title page and one chapter. Vg condition with traces of wear to extremities. The gilt is very good. The book was published with a dust jacket, but the dj is lacking with this copy. With the original letter from the publisher, a very desirable copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Nooksack Tales and Trails Historical Stories of Whatcom County, Washington *Hand-Numbered Copy 252/1000 SIGNED By Author P R Jeffcott with many pioneer pictures and photos taken by the author Publisher: Whatcom County Pioneer Association, Ferndale, Washington, 1949 First Edition. Hardcover. 436 pages. Index. Archival black and white illustrations. Fold-out map inside back board. "A collection of stories and historical events connected with the most northwest county in the United States-Whatcom County, Washington; and depicting in popular style, the pioneer days of the formative years between 1848 and 1895."- additionally inscribed at the front by Wilbur D Farmer who was a Washington State Patrol Officer in Whatcom County from 1933-1936 and who's father was Sheriff from 1934-1942 cover wear loss see photos marks, inside a little browning end pages, gift sticker, clean and tight. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 1000 signed and numbered copies, this being #262. 6.5 x 9.25 in. viii, 436pp., with numerous b/w photos and portraits documenting pioneer pictures and photographs taken by the author; folding map inside rear cover 'illustrating the Fraser Gold Rush of 1858', 'for the first time locates the route of the famous Whatcom Trail and Telegraph Line.' Original green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Near Fine, in the scarce original pictorial dust jacket (shallow edgewear, with some chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners). Signed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. #929 of 1,000 copies. Pebbled green cloth binding with gilt titling and decoration on front. Endpapers toned. Signed by Jeffcott on limitation label on front pastedown. 436pp., with numerous photoes. Very nice fold-out map in back. Good only dust jacket is moderately rubbed and toned, with original (5.50) price printed on spine. In a protective mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Signed.…