Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Rutledge Book, Prentice-Hall, 1973. Limited Edition. 384pp. Quarto [32 cm] 1/2 grained leather over cream canvas boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. AEG. Housed in a cream canvas slipcase. Better than very good in like slipcase. This edition was limited to 250 signed and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1983. First Edition. 2 volume set. 522, 534pp. Quartos [32 cm] Brown cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Housesed in a brown cloth slipcase. Better than very good in like slipcase. Illustrated work on the culture, craft, and ceremonials of the..... More
Bellevue, WA: Family Research and Development, 1996. First Edition. 939pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. This publication names nearly 10,000 descendants of John D. Lee, the only person charged and convicted of the atrocities of the Mountain Meadows..... More
Chicago: Mrs. H.B. Manford, Publisher, 1885. Revised Edition. 413pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Good. Mild rubbing to extremities and joints of boards. Bookplate on the front flyleaf. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. Front hinge going..... More
New York: Readex Microprint Corporation, 1966. 498pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Grained burgundy buckram with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and front board. Near fine. Facsimile printing of the classic travel narrative that describes in highly dramatic fashion the adventures and misadventures of a California-bound emigrant party of 49ers..... More
Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates [Signature Books], 1994. First Edition. 244pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark brown cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed by Marquardt on the title page. For more than 150 years the story of Mormon origins has been rewritten..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. 304pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle wear to corners of jacket. map endsheets and pastedowns. "In 1866, after a brilliant Civil War career, Captain (Brevet Major) Andrew Burt marched with..... More
Phoenix, AZ: Manufacturing Stationers, 1921. First Edition. 307pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Portraits of Arizona Governor, Thomas E. Campbell, and the author on a single leaf and laid in. Inscribed by Le Roi Snow on the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947. Frederic Remington. First Edition. 157pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped red label on the backstrip. Near fine. Book closes with 48 full-page plates (29 in color), by the famous cowboy artist, Frederic Remington. More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1940. First Edition. 286pp. Duodecimo [20.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped title to the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Minor wear to boards with a few small spots. Inscribed by McGavin on the front free endsheet: "To /..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First Edition. 389pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 tan cloth over brown boards. Fine/Fine. Sterling Moss McMurrin (1914-1996) was a liberal Mormon theologian and Philosophy professor at the University of Utah. He served as United States Commissioner of Education in the administration of President John..... More
Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1931. First Edition. 91pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over decorative paper boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in a matching slipcase. Both book and slipcase near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Uncommon bibliography that was produced in an edition..... More
London: Hamish Hamiltan, 1978. First British Edition. 438pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "Coming into the Country is about Alaska and Alaskans - contemporary, for the most part, with occasional expeditions into Alaska's past. It is unforgettable blending of..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1944. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Faint offsetting to pastedowns and endsheets from former jacket protecter. This work provides an historical and cultural background for the prewar..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1873. First U.K. Edition. 400pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 3/4 red sheep over marbled boards with the title and bands gilt stamped on the backstrip. Extremities rubbed with some splitting to the hinges. Endsheets foxed. This U.K. printing preceded the American first by a year. This..... More
Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co., Publishers, 1890. 253pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Tan beveled boards with the title and author gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Corners of boards gently bumped and rubbed. Library bookplate on the front pastedown. Lacks the rear free endsheet. Blind ownership embossment on..... More
The Pacific Historical Review, 1948. 383-409pp. Octavo [25 cm] Side-stappled wrappers. Very good. Saunders 148. More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1986. First Edition. 414pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Along with selected correspondence concerning Morgan's views on the history of the Latter-day Saints, this book publishes even scattered draft..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. First Edition. 432pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket is nicked at the corners and spine faded. According to Saunders: "Great Salt Lake dealt more with the historical context of the..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. First Edition. 432pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Signed on a special tipped-in sheet that is attached to front flyleaf. Bobbs-Merrill's series on American lakes was sponsored as an attempt to recapture..... More
Ogden: The Historical Records Survey, 1939. First Edition. 259pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers with a binder's tape backstrip as issued. Very good. Minor wear to covers. Mimeographed contents. The first published work by Dale Morgan is this W.P.A. guide. "Morgan's first monographic work was actually his second completed..... More
Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1962. Keepsake 10. 95pp. Octavo [26 cm] Gray wrappers. Fine. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. This guide to a museum exhibit was numbered into the keepsake series but not identified as such in the publication itself. It described exhibits..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1993. 2 volume set. 457, 458-825pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] Burgundy 1/4 burgundy buckram over salmon boards with the titles gilt on the backstrips and printed on the front boards. Both volumes near fine in like jackets. An edited compilation of primary sources from the first year..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1993. 2 volume set. 457, 458-825pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] 1/4 black leather over marbled boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in a salmon colored slipcase. Near fine. The printing of this book was limited to 100 copies, this is copy 40. Signed..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1956. First Edition. 51pp. Elephant folio [39 cm x 54 cm] Illustrated cloth. Near fine. A centennial reprint of Rand McNally's first western atlas and facsimiles from period publications, combined with narratives authored by Morgan concerning the map of each state. Saunders 28. More