Item #5471 Logger-talk: Some Notes on the Jargon of the Pacific Northwest Woods. Guy Williams, Glenn - ed Hughes.
Logger-talk: Some Notes on the Jargon of the Pacific Northwest Woods
Logger-talk: Some Notes on the Jargon of the Pacific Northwest Woods
Logger-talk: Some Notes on the Jargon of the Pacific Northwest Woods

Logger-talk: Some Notes on the Jargon of the Pacific Northwest Woods

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1930. First edition. 19x13cm, 30pp. Signed by Williams on the ffep. Printed, wood-patterned paper wrappers show some light edge wear and toning else near fine. Laid in are 3 original logging photographs of the author.

Number 41 in the University of Washington Chapbooks series, and one of the more collectible numbers, being a depression era lexicon of the logging camps of the Puget Sound in which the author grew up.  The original photos are of a dapper, young Guy Williams driving a boat and standing next to recently felled timber.  

Williams was a prominent figure, along with his friend and editor of the series, Glenn Hughes, in the Seattle theatre scene.  Williams served as the first state director of the newly organized Federal Theater Project, with Hughes as the Regional Advisor.  Under Williams' direction and supervision, the segregated Negro Repertory Company of Seattle gained national acclaim for their first three productions, most notably Stevedore in 1936. Item #5471

Price: $250.00