THE SIWASH: THEIR LIFE LEGENDS AND TALES
Seattle: The Calvert Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #xxx049
1st printing. Pictorial small 4to cloth with cover subtitle, "Their Life Tales & Legends of Puget Sound & Pacific N. W. Illustrated with nicely done pen and ink drawings. 169pp. A very scarce and fairly early book on the Indians / First Nations of Puget Sound including historical pieces, stories, cultural aspects, etc. Signed on a preliminary blank page by Tom Brown and dated by him "1896." Brown was the son of the first United States Marshal of the State of Washington, Thomas R. Brown, who served 1890 - 1893. Soiled covers. 2 ½" tear at top of ffep closed. A good + copy and very scarce.
Price: $175.00