Oysterville is the magnificently told tale of four families who settled up and down the East Coast of America three centuries ago and subsequently migrated west, eventually arriving at the tiny settlement of Oysterville on the Pacific coast in the territory of Washington. Drawing on conversations with elderly relations and friends, on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy affectionately reconstructs his own personal past to give us a rich and revealing account of these families that were born, grew up, and died as ...
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Oysterville is the magnificently told tale of four families who settled up and down the East Coast of America three centuries ago and subsequently migrated west, eventually arriving at the tiny settlement of Oysterville on the Pacific coast in the territory of Washington. Drawing on conversations with elderly relations and friends, on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy affectionately reconstructs his own personal past to give us a rich and revealing account of these families that were born, grew up, and died as the United States itself was being shaped and formed, explored and expanded.
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Very Good. > SIGNED by Author. Signed by the author on the title page. 300 pages in illustrated tan paper. Small amount of bumping to the top edge. Autographed sticker on front cover. Mild shelf wear. Interior text is clean and bright, firm to the spine and straight. Binding is solid with no crease.
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Fine. No Jacket. Size: 4to-over 9; Signed by Author First University of Washington Paperback Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on front loose endpaper. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition in pictorial wraps. 4to, 300 pages illustrated on tan paper. Illustrated history of Oysterville, Wa. Oysterville was declared a national historic site in 1976. Tan cover with bold green titles with cover illustration by Earl Thollander; the other illustrations are also by him-impressive line drawings throughout. (Don't miss the sketch on the rear flyleaf! ). Cover is very clean, unmarked, no spine creasing. Binding tight, solid and square. Internals very clean and free of any markings, no creases. Willard Espy's memoir is delightful, filled with memorable characters, with no celebrities, from his family trove of people over the centuries, from witches in Salem, Massachusetts, to pioneer oystermen on the Pacific coast of Washington state. Drawing on conversations with aged relations and friends, on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy reconstructs his own personal past to provide an account of his family that was born, grew up, and died, as the United States was being born, shaped, formed, explored, expanded. 300 pages. 10 x 6.5". inches. 1992, University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, USA,
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Illustrated by Ills by Eral Thollander. Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" VG in wraps 8vo 300+[4]pp. Signed By the Author on blank preliminary page: "Cordially, Willard R. Espy". Account of four families and their move from the East to tiny Oysterville, Washington.
