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Last modified July 15, 2008


On the left is a picture of me before I started selling books. On the right is the "after" picture. This is what bookselling can do to you. I actually started selling books by mail in 1974. In 1978 I started "The Business" a "bricks and mortar" store in Anacortes, WA. Pacific Rim Used Books started selling books on the internet in 1995 as a part of The Business.    Anacortes, Washington, is located on Fidalgo Island off the Northwest corner of the state.

Thanks to all our customers who have made 13 years of internet book selling worthwhile.

Glen Des Jardins


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A Collection of Latin Books

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More than 60 items, more than 40 Lbs., a highschool Latin teacher's collection of texts, textbook keys, teaching aids, test samples and translated classics. There is some duplication. The condition is good to very good. There are rubber stamps on the edges of a few titles and a few of the paperbacks have short tears on the covers. $100 plus Shipping

Asses To Airstreams

True Travel Tales (with some exaggeration)

By Glen Des Jardins

New Book-- Knw-Yer-Own Press. 2007 with 146 pages and 70 b&w photos. Part autobiography, part Old Airstream, part geezer philosophy and....some humor. $20. (We have multiple copies)

More pictures, information and chapter excerpts at

Asses To Airstreams


Author Reading

Glen Des Jardins will read from his book, "Asses To Airstreams" at the Mt. Baker Vintage Trailer Rally, 8pm Friday night, August the 15th. The rally is at the Demming Log Show Grounds near Bellingham, WA, August 14-17. Visit the link below for more details and other planned events.

Mt Baker Vintage Trailer Rally


Yoseido Gallery Catalogs.
A collection of 9 Yoseido Gallery Catalogs. 5.75 x 8 inches, they are in good condition with some occasional light fraying on the spine. Yoshitoshi Mori, 1983, Catalog No. 11, 1976, featuring 42 woodblock artists, Catalog 12, 1977, Catalog 13, 1978, Catalog 14, 1979, Catalog 15, 1980, two copies of Catalog 17 (one has a repaired hole on the back cover), 1982, and Catalog 20 from 1985. $100 for all


A Collection Programs from The Seattle International Film Festival
#1, #2, # 4, #5, #6, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #14, #15, #16, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #24, #25, #26, and #27. These programs are in good to very good condition. Number one has a light horizontal crease, others show faint creasing and very light shelfwear. $100


Klondike Big Inch Land Co, Inc. Deed


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This 8 x 5 inch deed was a Quaker Oats cereal promotion in 1955. The parent company in Illinois didn't pay the property taxes and the property was siezed by the Canadian Government. In good condition with double folding creases--folded once, and then folded again.

$30

A Collection of Ten Theosophy books

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Besant, Anne, Karma, a small 1975 reprint hardback in very good shape.
Chaudhuri, Haridas, The Evolution of Integral Consciousness, A Quest Book, paperback, in very good condition.
Leadbeater, C.W., Ancient Mystic Rites, A Quest Book, paperback, in very good condition.
Mead, G.R.S., The Doctrine of the Subtle Body In Western Tradition, A Quest Book, paperback, in good condition.
Pearson, E. Norman, Space, Time and Self, A Quest Book, paperback in good condition.
Ram, N. Sri, An Approach to Reality, A Quest Book, paperback, with a small scrape mark on the front cover.
Reyes, Benito F., Scientific Evidence of the Existence of the Soul, A Quest Book, paperback, with light shelf wear.
Van Der Leeuw, J.J., The Fire of Creation, A Quest Book, paperback, in good condition with light shelf wear.
Williams, Jay G., Yeshua Buddha An interpretation of New Testament theology as a meaningful myth, A Quest Book, paperback, in very good condition.
Wood, Ernest, Concentration An Approach to Meditation, A Quest Book, paperback, in very good condition.

$30 for all ....

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A 1944 letter from Wacker City, Alaska


On 8.5 x 11 Wacker City, Alaska letterhead, a letter to C.E. Willmore SF2/C, 85th Batt. Co. D.1., C/O Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif. informing him that the .25 cent money order (included) can't be cashed in Wacker City. They need coin or stamps. The letter is signed Alaska Development Company, by E. Wacker. The money order is from Willmore and made out to the Alaska Development Company. The left side of the envelope has a 1940's carricature of a Native American spanking his wife in front of a totem pole, with a mountain in the back ground. Underneath that is "WACKER CITY (PRONOUNCED WHACK_HER SIT-TY) Alaska. There are three, 3 cent victory postage stamps attached. The condition is good with the imprint of a paperclip where the money order was attached.

E. Wacker was probably Eugene Wacker, the first postmaster of Wacker City. Wacker city became Wards Cove, AK in 1951.

$30



A collection of 19 Inuit / Eskimo art catalogs. Click on the thumbnail for more pictures and information.






A unique 1910 Oregon Map. Click on the thumbnail for more pictures and information.




Turning Wheels the Studebaker Story (1954)

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6.75 x 10 inch comic book format with 14 pages, the story of Studebaker, Studebaker cars, trucks, wagons and all the rest.

This comic is in fair to good condition with 3 ring punches on the left margin, yellowing pages, a light crease at the top from the owner typing his name and address, and some other creases and light chipping. The staples are rusty. One page has ink writing on the top

$40


Eighteen early Catalogs from Oak Knoll Books, Including the first Nine
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All are in good to very good shape with light soiling, light shelf wear, very small page corner creases and rusty staples. Catalogue twenty has ink on the cover and minor ink inside.

Catalogues one through nine are present. In addition there is Catalogue twelve, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three and thirty-two.

$50 for all.

A Collection of old "Northwest Gardens" magazines
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Cecil Solly was the editor until 1939, Orrin Hale follows. In 1942 the title changes to "Northwest Gardens and Homes." There are interesting articles and ads.

All copies are in good condition. Most have rusty staples and light soiling with an occasional rip along the spine. There's an occasional small address label on the backs

November 1936, March 1937 Has a bit of chipping/small tears and some writing on the cover. Short tears on the back cover, December 1938, November 1939, December 1939,November 1942, December 1942, February 1943, February 1944, November 1944, December 1944, June 1945, July 1945, October 1945, February 1946, September 1946, October 1946, November 1946, January 1947, February 1947, March 1947, September 1947, October 1947, November 1947 has a chipped corner

$50 for all

Territory of Alaska Map, Circa 1956

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22 x 34 inches, published by the Map Corporation of America, circa 1956. The flip side has maps of Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchikan. The front cover has some light soiling. The edges of the front cover are "bumped" a bit. There is one 3 inch tear on the top center of the map, in a fold. $25

Mostly Square Dance Book Collection


1912 Vancouver, WA Real Estate Map

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17 X 17 inches. "Compliments of Edson M. Rowley Real Estate Dealer." Compiled by W. P. Homan, December 1912. Rowley additions are in red, railroad property in blue. There is a 3 inch tear along one fold on the right side. $25
10782 Darling, J. N., ("Ding") The Cruise of the Bouncing Betsy A Trailer Travelogue Frederick A. Stokes Fair to good. Wear and soiling on the covers and spine. There is a 1/2 tear in the cloth on the bottom of the front "gutter." No dust wrapper. 1937 hardback with 96 pages and wonderful cartoon illustrations by the author. Ding Darling was an editorial cartoonist in Iowa, a conservationist and the father of the federal duck stamp program. The story of a winter trailer trip from Iowa in 1937 to Captiva Island on the Florida Gulf Coast. Recreation Vehicle, Ding Darling, Captiva Island, Florida. $125

Included with this book is a 26 page booklet, Wildlife Drive Guide--J.N."Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge This is the area mentioned in The Cruise of the Bouncing Betsy above. This book and other Trailering and RV books are listed on our Airstream Page



"L" CO 2D BN 1ST INF. TR REG. T.C. 1 Camp Pendleton, Calif, 11 July 1953 A black and white panoramic photo, 24.5 inches wide and 9 inches high. This picture has been stored "rolled up," so it doesn't want to lay flat. There are two brown stains on the right side, otherwise it is in good condition. United States Marine Corps USMC. $50


11036 Alaska Steamship Company S. S. Alameda, J. Ramsauer, Commander Alaska Steamship Company Very good with light shelfwear and soiling. June 24, 1931 cardstock menu, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, with a sepia picture of "an old Alaska highway" on the front and the menu on the back. Ephemera, Alaska Steamship Company, S. S. Alameda, Ships, The Alaska Line $20

From our Alaska Page