The Ox Team or the Old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906. by Meeker, Ezra

Omaha, NE: The Author. Poor. ca. 1906. Third Edition. Softcover. Covers are detached from the pages but present. Covers have chipping to the spine ends, slight staining, and slight rubbing. Very slight creasing to upper outer corners. Pages are clean. .

Whipporwill Publications, 1906T. hardcover. Very Good. . Very good. Hardcover. PLEASE NOTE: This is the 1984 reprint on Whipporwill Press and the image pictured is NOT our copy, but an Amazon Stock photo that we cannot change. Clean text -- NO writing, NO highlighting to text.� Very Good condition.

Omaha: Ezra Meeker, 1906. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and fading. Writing on the front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

"to the pioneers who fought the battle of peace, and wrested Oregon from British rule this book is reverently dedicated" Maps in rear of book. Ex lib with markings and stamped withdrawn. Binding reinforced, Many b&w photos. Text unmarked.. Very slight wear top and bottom of spine. Book read nine times according to check out slip, last time in 1983. Bottom corners show wear. Pages clean.d

Indianapolis: Published by the author, 1906. Other. Octavo; Poor+; Paperback; Spine, exposed binding; Lacks cover, textblock only; Text block in clear plastic sleeve, binding exposed along spine, fore corners are curled, light soiling to title page and final exposed page, intermittent spine breaks, 1 plate loose from binding; Inscription and author's signature in ink on dedication page; 5 postcards with b&w images of related subjects laid in; 254 pages, illustrated (b&w). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #6. 1350143. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Privately Printed, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Fourth edition, brown cloth with black titles and pictorial paper paste down on front cover, 12mo, 248 pages plus maps and publisher's advertisements in rear, inscribed by Ezra Meeker on dedication page; boards lightly edge worn. From the personal library of Norma Paulus, first woman to be elected to statewide public office in Oregon as the Secretary of State in 1977.

Indianapolis: By the author, [1906 - but later?]. Early reprint. Small octavo; red cloth over boards with photographic onlays; 254pp; illus; portrait frontispiece. Inconspicuous rubbing to board edges; foxing to prelims, previous owner's annotation inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight and textually unmarked; solidly Very Good. The first edition was Omaha, 1906; this would appear to be an early reprint from the original plates. Printed by M.A. Donohue, Chicago, with their slug at base of copyright page. Illustrated from photographs; final 6pp (included in pagination) comprise an advertisement for Meeker's Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound (1905). Mintz: "...an account of the author's trip across the plains at the age of twenty-two, and of the retracing of the trail in 1906 with an ox team at the age of seventy-six. The text is somewhat disjointed. However, the book is still interesting due to the heroic nature of the venture." Meeker actually published the book while in the midst of his1906… Read More

Indianapolis: Ezra Meeker, 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 254 pages, comments and commendations about the author's book, Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound, b/w photos; small 8vo, red cloth, two pictorial round labels front cover. Very good, light cover wear, name/address, Feb. 1907 date; no dust jacket. In clear Brodart sleeve. Account of the author's trip across the plains from the Missouri River to Puget sound with ox and cow team in 1852 at age 22, and his return with an ox team in 1906 with excerpts from his journal and other sources.

Omaha, Nebraska: Published by the Author, 1906. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair/No Dust Jacket. Warmly inscribed on the dedication page by the author "To Mrs. May Cameron/Because of my esteem/ for your unselfish work/with the little ones at "The Home"/ and your considerate/and heroic work as a/mother it is a pleasure/to inscribe this volume/Seattle,Wash/Feb. 23rd 1908/Ezra Meeker." Written under the author's inscription is this "Presented to/Mary Sanders Baird/June1, 1941/Mamie Swearingen." Green cloth with two circular pastedowns of oxen on front cover. Cloth rubbed thru at a few small areas along the spine folds, rubbed at the edges and pastedowns on cover, front hinge loose but holding.