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Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper .

SOFTCOVER. Condizione: VERY GOOD. NO JACKET. 15TH EDITION. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. USA: COPPER QUEEN PUBLISHING, 1978. 15TH EDITION. VERY GOOD/NO JACKET. Copper Queen Publishing Company, Bisbee, AZ, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Good Plus. STATED FIRST PRINTING. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee (Arizona) from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette. Mild sunning to light-blue card covers, and black smudge to back cover. Softcover original. 1ST PRINTING.…

Softcover. Condizione: VERY GOOD. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, Stated. 1978. Copper Queen, Bisbee, Arizona. Paperback: blue-grey pictorial wrappers, light edge & shelf wear, faint even fading. Small marking to corner & very light scattered foxing to title page, else unmarked. Glossy b&w nineteenth-century street photographs, the 1972 Lavender Pit aerial view by Ray Manley & mining camp story illustrations, printed on thick glossy paper throughout. Unpaginated. Quarto. Compiled from the Brewery Gulch Gazette archives by longtime editor William C. Epler w/ historical research by Alice Metz, documenting the copper mining camp of Bisbee, Arizona. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Documenting the origins, municipal expansion, and mineral wealth of early Arizona, Bisbee Vignettes chronicles the historical evolution of one of the premier copper mining camps in the American Southwest. Sourced directly from serialized accounts and archival features in the historic Brewery Gulch Gazette, the text provides a detailed overview of frontier daily life, nineteenth-century commerce along Main Street, and industrial transitions across the Mule Mountains. Narrative passages examine early prospectors in Tombstone Canyon, the formation of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, and the community traditions that defined Cochise County during its boom decades. Issued in a quarto format with light blue-grey pictorial paper wrappers, the volume carries a nineteenth-century street scene on the front cover. Archival black-and-white photographs appear throughout the work, capturing early mercantile storefronts, mule pack trains, residential settlements along steep canyon slopes, and twentieth-century open-pit operations. Notable visual inclusions include an aerial survey of the Lavender Pit by Tucson photographer Ray Manley alongside period story illustrations depicting frontier humor and local folklore. Published in 1978 by the Copper Queen Publishing Company in Bisbee, Arizona, the work was authored and compiled by veteran journalist William C. Epler, longtime editor of the Brewery Gulch Gazette. Historical fact-checking and archival research were conducted by local historian Alice Metz, integrating pioneer documentation and family records preserved by early residents, including the banking and merchant family of Joseph M. Muheim Jr. Specialized sections document the structural development of the Sacramento and Lavender Pits under Phelps Dodge Corporation management alongside regional accounts of flash floods, mining operations, and civic milestones. Serving as an informative primary-source record of Southeastern Arizona industrial heritage, the publication preserves transient journalistic history and nineteenth-century photography for Western Americana researchers. Academic libraries, regional historians, and mining ephemera specialists utilize the monograph as a specialized reference work for Cochise County local history, early copper extraction technology, and late nineteenth-century mining camp society. Ray Manley (illustratore).…

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

[ARIZONA]. First edition. Quarto. Blue pictorial wrappers, n.p. (40 pp.), illustrated. A collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper. Great photographs and wonderful stories of one of the world's greatest copper camps. Fine copy. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Gene Tratton Porter - The Woman - Glimpses of Novelist's Inner Life Revealed in Intimate Talk with Friend; How the South Regards the Negro - "We shall speak with no malice in our hearts - We aim merely to be frank"; "Off Agin! On Agin! Gone Agin! - there have been 25 Premiers of France this century, almost one a year; Is Europe Satisfied with the League of Nations? - governments and peoples differ as to what benefits, if any, are to be derived; New Salem, Illinois - The Town That Put Lincoln on the Map; Passing of the Yankee Country Store - better transportation and mail order house have sounded knell of village emporium; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - there is much that can be done to lift up America's back lands lf neglect; Editorials - the true sesqui-centennial, up from slavery, scarcely any play can get by today on Broadway without a prostitute, war debts, Max Goldberg and the murder of "Lefty" Kanter; Woodrow Wilson - Master of Dreams (part 7); Traveling Around Without a Coat - a garment which becomes a symbol of respectability and passport to civilization; Voyage of the Victoria (2nd part of a series) - Finding of the Spiceries; What I Remember of Longfellow - famous Novelist's son give intimate personal recollections of the author of 'Evangeline'; The Bedouins and the Wahabis (short article); Nations take action for World Sanitation; A Dance a Week - The Minuet - with piano sheet music; R.C. (Mac) MacLeod and his Walla Walla, Washington magazine "Up-to-the-Times"; The Last of the Catawba Nation; Fantastic photos of unusual occupations - Paris rat catcher, alligator trainer, Swiss lace-maker, village musicians of Brittany, One-man travelling restaurant in Java, and a Cairo drinking water pedlar. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Graham, J.C.; Honore, Paul (illustratore).…