[Salt Lake City]: University Services Corporation, 1992. 208pp. Quarto [26 cm] White blind stamped cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Profusely illustrated work on the Salt Lake Temple. Forty years of effort and sacrifice to build the Salt Lake Temple concluded on April 6, 1893, the last day of the Church's annual..... More
Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1988. 71pp. Quarto [26 cm] Light blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Map endsheets and pastedowns. "Though the following Voyage was chiefly undertaken from motives of curiosity by Mr. Cox, the fur trade in the North West..... More
Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1987. First Edition. 65pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Near fine. Guidebook produced to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the LDS Church in the United Kingdom. Illustrated with maps throughout. Surprisingly uncommon, I can locate three institutional holdings (BYU - LDS CHL - Fam. Hist..... More
[Portland]: Champoeg Press, 1955. 55pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with a Mossman & Co. advertisement printed in black on the front board. Near fine. Fold-out map at the rear present. Mounted photo frontispiece present. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy in an edition of 500 copies. "A Pony Expressman's..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. First Edition. 126 facsimile maps. Folio [51 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle sunning to extremities and backstrip. When the Corps of Discovery left the vicinity of St. Louis in 1804 to explore..... More
Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1972. 155pp. Quarto [26 cm] Publisher's brown buckram with the title on the front board and backstrip (both faded). Very good. "These chronicles of stirring events were written since my discharge from the Seventh United States Cavalry, with both legs paralyzed, due to injuries received at..... More
Denver: Artcraft Press, 1955. First Edition, 1,500. 189pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] 1/4 green cloth over light green boards with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip and the front board. Very good. A few small scuffs to the front board. Large fold-out map present at the rear. This..... More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1965. Second Printing. 278pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Yellow printed cloth. Very good/Near fine. Jacket price-clipped. "So this excursion through the Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California is more than a collection of anecdote and story. It is a fragment of Americana which helps to..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First Edition. 347pp. Octavo [20 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle rubbing to corners of boards. Lengthy contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. "This book is offered to the consideration of..... More
Provo: N.L. Nelson, 1904. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4. 412pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Complete run of this quarterly magazine, owned and edited by N. L. Nelson, professor of English, Brigham Young University, to apply theology to..... More
San Francisco: William Hamilton Nelson, 1932. Third Edition. 133pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Orange cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A few small nicks to the jacket's corners. Being a series of connected sketches of the youngest state in the American Union..... More
Murphy, ID: Owyhee County Historical Society, 2006. Second Printing. 283pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Name in ink on the front free endsheet. History of this rugged and rural and sparsely populated county in southeast..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1947. Fifth Printing. 372pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed by Nibley on the front free endsheet: "To Cannon Lund / with best..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. First Edition. 247pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Burgundy boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Subtle sunning to spine of jacket. Inscribed to fellow historian, Will Bagley, on the title page. Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power reveals insights into the complex..... More
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1970, 1976, 1976. First Edition. Three volume set. 288, 294pp Octavos [23 cm] Brown cloth. The text volumes are near fine in like jackets - the map [102 cm x 84 cm] volume is near fine. - 'A Scientist on the Mississippi Headwaters With Notes on..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. 418pp. Quarto [26 cm] Black cloth with the title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. From primary sources collected over thirty years, both textual and photographic, the author tells the story of the military subjugation of these Plains Indians and their removal..... More
Chicago: Belford, Clarke, & Co., 1881. First Edition. 286 + [16]pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Yellow cloth with titles and mule illustration stamped in black and gilt. Very good. Gentle wear to boards, internally nice. "This book deals largely with the singular scenery and Peculiar people of the Rocky Mountains. It..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. 241pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth. A few small chips to the extremities of the jacket otherwise book and jacket better than very good. "In that game Jim Stanton, by profession a gambler, and by avocation a connoisseur of guns, won a store..... More
Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1929. First Edition. 126pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Near fine. Inscribed by George H. Brimhall to Franklin S. Harris in the year of publication on the front free endsheet: "George H. Brimhall from President Franklin..... More
Portland: The Oregon Historical Records Survey, February, 1941. 332pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers with a binder's tape spine as issued. Very good. Title manuscript in white on the spine. WPA work detailing the holdings of the Wasco County archives located in The Dalles. Uncommon. More
San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1966. First Edition. 233pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light blue cloth. Near fine/Near fine. "Dr. Albert G. Osburn's two-year odyssey from 1849 to 1851 first takes him to mine for gold on the Yuba and upper Sacramento rivers. He was one of the leaders of a...... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, December, 1926. 269pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Lower half of jacket's spine missing. Former owner name in ink on the rear free endsheet. Epic poem describing the Mormon Pioneer..... More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1927. 256pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Small faint staining to backstrip and rear board. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed on the limitation page [front free..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004. First Edition. 397pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Signed by the author and the series editor on the half-title, with the volume prospectus laid in. Volume 7 in the ambitious and..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Quarterly, October, 1928. Volume 1 - Number 4. [101]-128pp. Octavo [23 cm] Gray printer wrappers. Very good. Fourth issue of this important and long-running periodical. Articles are: 'Personal Recollections of Wash-a-kie, Chief of the Shoshones' by P.L. Williams - 'Father Escalante and the Utah..... More