Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977. First Edition. 306pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title in white on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle sun fading to the backstrip. Map present in the rear pocket. "After the coalition of the North West and Hudson's Bay companies..... More
Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1942. First Edition. 223pp. Octavo [20 cm] Gray pebbled cloth with title stamped in blue on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. The introduction to this work was Morgan’s last contribution to a WPA publication. The majority of this book was penned by..... More
Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1942. First Edition. 223pp. Octavo [20 cm] Gray pebbled cloth with title stamped in blue on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. The introduction to this work was Morgan’s last contribution to a WPA publication. The majority of this book was penned by..... 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 shows minor fading to spine. According to Saunders: "Great Salt Lake dealt more with the historical context of the lake than the..... 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
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. First Edition. 86pp. Folio [ ] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Gentle sunning to the backstrip with a bookplate on the front pastedown. Complete with all seven maps. The four page prospectus is laid in..... More
Ogden: Ogden City Commission, October, 1940. First Edition. 77pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan wrappers with an illustration of the Weber County Building. Near fine. Second state with the text block and covers trimmed square. Pre-print of the Proposed Inventory of Municipal Archives of Utah. Prepared by the Utah Historical Records..... More
[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
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1920. First Edition. 198pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Olive green cloth with the title gilt on the front board and the backstrip. Better than very good. Name stamped on the front free endsheet. Clean copy of this work that prints some of the prophecies..... 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
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. First Edition. 203pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 burgundy cloth over red boards with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Mild discoloring of price clipped jacket that has a few short closed tears. "This book tells the story of Alexander Hamilton Swan, a...... 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
Omaha, NE: Union Pacific Systems, 1926. First Edition. 39pp. Octavo [25 cm] Tan wrappers with the title and Old Faithful gold embossed with blue highlights on the cover. Very good. Illustrated guide of Yellowstone issued by Union Pacific, that offers descriptions of the various sights, routes, accommodations and general information..... More
Salt Lake City: Truth Publishing Company, (c.1950). 24pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Stapled printed wrappers. Very good. Reprinted from Millennial Star Issue of April 30, 1853. Joseph Musser (1872-1954) was an early fundamentalist leader and considered a Prophet by many, and was the leader of the Short Creek group during the..... 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
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1984. First Edition. 394pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black cloth over tan boards. Very good/Very good. Map endsheets and pastedowns. This is the definitive work on Emma Smith and likely will never be surpassed. Inscribed by the author, Linda King Newell on the half-title. "Many women..... 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
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
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1967. 67pp. Quarto [27 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Edited by George Koenig. Photographs by Ansel Adams. Fold-out route map by Robert Becker is present at the rear. "This diary records with on-the-scene impact..... More