Exploring the Northwest Junell Follett 1961 Vintage Pacific NW School Textbook For Sale

This is the book Northwest schoolchildren learned their own region from in the early 1960s: Washington, Oregon and Idaho, taught as geography, industry, settlement and daily life, at a fourth- and fifth-grade reading level. Joseph S. Junell wrote it for Follett\'s New Unified Social Studies series with Emlyn Jones consulting, and what makes it worth keeping now is exactly what makes any period schoolbook interesting — it shows you not just the Northwest, but how the Northwest was being explained to its own children at a particular moment. The timber and fishing industries appear at their mid-century height, the dams are new, and the colour photographs are a straight documentary record of the region as it looked. There is a full atlas section at the back with colour maps, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. For an Oregon, Washington or Idaho family it is a genuinely local piece of history; for a homeschool unit on the Pacific Northwest it is a primary source about the era as much as a text about the region. Uncommon — no other copy could be found offered anywhere at the time of listing.

📚 Book Details

• ✍️ Author: Joseph S. Junell, with Emlyn Jones as consultant
• 🏢 Publisher: Follett Publishing Company, Chicago
• 📅 Year: 1961
• 📄 Format: Green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, 192 pages, with colour maps, colour photographs, black-and-white illustrations and an atlas section
• 🔖 ISBN: none — this book predates the ISBN system
• 📖 Edition: Part of Follett\'s New Unified Social Studies series. Covers Washington, Oregon and Idaho
• ✅ Best For: Pacific Northwest local-history readers, Oregon, Washington and Idaho families, homeschool units on the Northwest, collectors of vintage school textbooks, and anyone interested in how the region presented itself in 1961

📋 Condition: Good

• ⚠️ Green cloth covers show noticeable fading and scuffing, heaviest on the lower front and back
• ⚠️ Wear to the spine edges
• ⚠️ Three previous-retail stickers: a white circular dot on the front cover, a red apple-shaped price sticker marked 22 inside the front cover, and a small USED sticker beside it
• ⚠️ Interior pages evenly yellowed with age, as expected for 1961 paper
• ⚠️ No dust jacket
• ✅ Binding intact and text block sound
• ✅ Pages reasonably clean — no heavy writing and no highlighting observed
• ✅ Colour maps, colour photographs, illustrations and the rear atlas section all present and clear
• ✅ No library stamps, call-number spine labels, card pockets, date-due slips or barcodes — not an ex-library copy

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