* Paul Bunyan in the Army by 'John Rogers Inkslinger' (Portland, OR.: Binfords & Mort, 1942)
First edition, with large, bold colour illustrations throughout by Tom O’Brian. Paul Bunyan, giant symbol of the American worker, is ready to help the war effort in this entertaining book. During the Second World War children’s books such as this played an important role in maintaining good morale on the home front. John Rogers Inkslinger was the pseudonym of Thomas Binford who wrote this tale while serving as a corporal in the United States Army.
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* The Good-Natured Map of Alaska by Edward Camy (Seattle: Alaska Steamship Co. [Farwest Lithograph and Print Co.], 1939)
Color pictorial map of Alaska and Yukon with humorous advertising featuring the Alaska Steamship company routes, includes connections to the Alaska Railroad and highway systems, large inset of the Seward-Fairbanks-Cordova loop, nine cartoon illustrations of activities aboard the steamship in the inside passage from Seattle to Skagway. Camy (1904-1958) was an American graphic artist and illustrator in San Francisco. His most noted works were for the Alsaka Steamship line, Santa Fe Railroad and other advertisements in the 1930s and 1940s. This map was from the library of Dr. G. Warren Smith (1941-2021) of Pennsylvania who had a long career as university professor and administrator, and was a collector of over 6,000 books, maps, illustrations, and artifacts relating to the Arctic, Alaska and Pacific Northwest.
