Search Results: Logging from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 80pp. Illus. "Being a Brief Account of the Discovery Settlement and Development of the Mendocino Coast, together with Correlated History of the Union Lumber Company and how Coast and Company grew up together." Nicely printed by Taylor & Taylor. Dark mark on lower front cover, but still vg. No dj.

Wash. D. C.: Gov't Printing Office, 1933. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. 1st printings. Two volumes in printed wraps. 1,677pp. Charts. Graphs. Maps. Index. Copy of W. L. McCormick who signed his name on the covers & the inside. There is a W. L. McCormick associated with mining in SE Alaska about 1919. These volumes were de-accessioned from the Weyerhaeuser Company library. Library pocket, etc. Chip to lower front cover of Vol. II. Other small chips. Bump to text block of Vol. I. Good condition. Scarce as a set.

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4th printing of Revised and Enlarged edition. Cloth. 180pp. Illustrated with some drawings. Maps. Bibliography. Endpaper maps showing Crawford County, Michigan. Signed by Miller on the half-title & non-authorial gift inscription on verso of same. "part of (author's) interesting account deals with the indiscriminate logging of Michigan's virgin pine in the Au Sable region." Trace of wear to couple of edges, else fine in nearly complete dust jacket chipped along the top edge. This book commanding hefty prices even for later printings.

n.p.: n.p., 1906. Soft cover. Near Fine. Not a book. Five original lumber mill cabinet photos, slightly sepia. 1905-06. Each 6 1/2" x 8 5/8" & on original mats. Ink/pencil info written on back of each mat. Photo #1: (sawmill with men lined up in front of it) "Picture taken 1906 Pelican River Sawmill on Pelican River approx 2 - 2 1/2 miles East or South of Rhinelander Wisconsin" Fine. Photo #2: (another sawmill with men lined up close range) 11 of 13 men named on back & "This picture taken about - 1906 at Monico Jct Wisconsin". Lower left margin stained, just into photo. Photo #3: (Monico sawmill with group of men standing/sitting close to camera) "Taken about 1905 at Monico Jct Wisconsin" & names of 16 men/boys & 4 unknowns. Great close-up group! Fine. Photo #4: (sawmill burned to ground; 3 men standing in ruins) "After Pelican River Mill fire July 1906". Fine. Photo #5: duplicate of #4: on back is written: "John J. Suche Jr". Fine. This set at one time must have belonged to a family who likely… Read More

Rhinelander WI: Privately Printed, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 132pp. Illus. Maps. fos (former owner's signature on both paste downs. Excellent history of this small Northwoods Wisconsin city and written by the Western novelist, T. V. Olsen, who lived nearby. Near fine. No dj as issued. Scarce now.

Minneapolis: Gov't Printing Office & Smithsonian, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. 1/2 leather & cloth boards. 184pp. Illustrated with nice photogravures. Family copy with unusual custom bookplate on the front paste down of the author's son & daughter-in-law, Frank and Alice Warren, which has three half-tone photos on it showing a cabin, a lighthouse, & a forest road. On the frontispiece (showing a stream & some trees) there is a space for an inscription, this one being the author's presentation to Alice, his daughter-in-law, & dated Aug. 10, 1914. This book is a superb memoir of early timber cruising in northern Wisconsin & Minnesota beginning in the 1870s. A remarkable life as a woodsman who eventually became what I believe to have been a leader in the industry in that Great Lakes area. The leather joints have been repaired and are holding well, but note some deterioration at head & toe of spine. A good, tight copy. This book was printed on beautifully textured from Italy.

Rhinelander WI: n.p., 1906. No Binding. Fine. Four original cabinet size logging photos from Northern Wisconsin. Two locations, sawmills on the Pelican River near where it joins with the Wisconsin River, at that time about two miles from Rhinelander, and several miles to the east, Monaco Junction (where presently US 45 & 8 intersect). On the back of two of the photos are two lists of names of boys and men in the photos! Remarkable! One photo is of the burned mill. A rare opportunity from this era to have photos related to logging and milling with named individuals. Each photo is framed.