Item #900789 Oregon Imprints 1847 - 1870. Douglas C. McMurtrie.
Oregon Imprints 1847 - 1870

Oregon Imprints 1847 - 1870

Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press, 1950.
First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/2 x 9-7/8", green cloth, xxi, 206pp, key to symbols, subject index. Item #900789

First Edition. Published after the author's death in 1944. Prefatory Note & Introduction by Albert H. Allen.

A list (to date of publication) of all that had yet been discovered of the output of the Oregon press, other than newspapers and magazines, from the beginning at Oregon City through the year 1870. In all, there are 619 titles - which includes 30 items that  had not been located at time of publication, but which are believed to have been printed. Of the 589 located items, 59 belong to the class of broadsides, folders, and the like. Most of the items that have been located are scarce. Only 66 of the titles exist in quantities of 10 or more.

Foxing to endpapers at gutters and top-edge of preliminary leaves, else fine in very good dust wrapper with toning to edges and spine and a single 3/4" tear top-edge, in protective mylar.

Price: $30.00