"[2 Maps in Booklet] Birdseye View of Puget Sound Country and Vicinity [and] Map of "Inside Passage" to Alaska [in] The Seattle Spirit Overcoat Pocket Edition",

This petite and apparently scarce volume was written by Lucy Byrd Mock and serves as a "Primer on Puget Sound" covering the region's "past, present and future." It features two small maps. At the front is a view of the Puget Sound (9.1 x 6.3"), extending from the Columbia River north to Vancouver Island and inland to the cities of Seattle, Bellingham, and Vancouver. Bound at the rear is a map of the Pacific Coast (9.4 x 4.8") extending from Seattle north to Kodiak, Alaska, demonstrating the "inside passage" where the water is "so quiet that seasickness is unknown." The 136 pages of text are profusely illustrated. Paper wrappers are missing.

Lucy Byrd Mock was an author, poet, editor and publisher known as the first woman to design a golf course. After playing golf in Great Britain as a teenager in the 1890s, on her return she developed the first golf course in her native Arkansas. For her biography, click here.

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Condition: B+

The two small folding maps are clean and bright with a 0.5" edge tear at left on the "Inside Passage" map that has been closed on verso with archival tape. Text has a hint of pleasant light toning. Wrappers are missing.