New York: Macmillan Company, 1949. First Edition. 295pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth with the title in blue on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket is price clipped. "This is a firsthand description of two so-called 'short cuts' traveled by the prairie schooners of our pioneer grandfathers on their way..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1943. First Edition. 514pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with the title in white on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket is price clipped with minor nicking at the corners. Square of discoloration on front pastedown likely from bookplate removal. Short inscription on front free endsheet..... More
Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1983. 186pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Publisher's red buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. "Joel Palmer was widely known and highly respected in the Oregon Territory. He was elected speaker of the House of Representatives in Oregon in..... More
[Provo, UT]: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 1982. First Edition. 106pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with silver stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Fine. This work covers the formative years of Young's life, including his conversion to the Mormon faith, and the development of his..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. First Edition. 336pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip and front board. Fine. American Trails Series XX (20). The first scholarly work on children's narratives of the trail. Although at least one-fifth of the approximately 350,000..... More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 289pp. Quarto [26 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt on black labels on the front board and backstrip. Very good. "The history of Elizabethan expansion is to a great extant the work of Richard Hakluyt, to a greater extent perhaps than the record..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. First Edition. 260pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over gray boards. Near fine/Near fine. In previous accounts, the U.S. Army's first clashes with the powerful Sioux tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable characters - a Mormon..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1962. First Edition. 196pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White buckram with the title in red on the backstrip and printed blood splatters on the front board. Black buckram slipcase with printed white a wraparound printed label. The backstrip is gently sunned. Stain to wraparound label on..... More
Iowa City, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1937. First Edition. 575pp. Octavo [24 cm] Green cloth with the title and borders gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Book has been placed in a 1968 reprint jacket, with '1968' crossed out and '1937 1st ED'..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1972. 74pp. Quarto [28 cm] Comb bound yellow wrappers with the title on the cover. Better than very good. Utah State Historical Society: Western Trail Guide Series, Number 1. Detailed and illustrated guide of the Mormon Battalion's march from Fort Leavenworth to San..... More
Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2012. First Edition. 328pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Western Trails Series XXIII (23). Signed by the author on the title page. Based on ten years of research, West from Salt Lake..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997. First Edition. 137pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on backstrip and front board. Near fine. Northwest Historical Series XVIII (18). "The primary accounts offered in this work detail the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest as conducted by..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First Edition. 160pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Gilt stamped image of the Whittier home on the front board. Better than very good. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Ellen..... More
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1997. Limited Edition. 120pp. Quarto [31.5 cm] 3/4 burgundy leather over red boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. A.E.G. Matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. This edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies, this is copy 591. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake..... More
Salt Lake City: Granite Publishing Company, 1958. First Edition. 371pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title printed in off-white on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. "Joseph C. rich might well be called the versatile pioneer; for pioneer he was, and a man of many talents and accomplishments..... More
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1980. First Edition. 64pp. Oblong Quarto [21 cm x 29 cm] Bound in light blue and dark blue cloth with silver stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Gentle rubbing to jacket near spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Photographs by Michael Collier and..... More
Chattanooga, TN: The Southern States Mission, 1899. 284pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Rebound in black cloth with the title and bands gilt stamped on the backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns. Good. Closed tear and tape to title page with sporadic pencil marginalia throughout. "In addition to the compilation, as published in..... More
Basel: Aufstieg-Verlag, 1935. Third German edition. 126pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth over tan marbled boards with the title printed in red on the front board. Very good. Uncommon German translation of Pratt's important theological treatise. I am able to locate two American institutional holdings (BYU, Princeton). Rare. More
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1952. First Edition. 385pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black pebbled cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and the backstrip. Fine. Edited and published by his grandson, Parker Pratt Robison. An exceptionally nice copy of this work of the writings of Parley..... More
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905-1907. 20 Volume Set. Octavos [23 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles on backstrip and gilt device to front boards. Top edge gilt. Bookplate (or faint glue residue from) on front pastedown. All volumes near fine. Nice clean set. Illustrated with maps throughout. Handsome..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. First Edition. 84pp. Octavo [21 cm] Salmon cloth boards. Jacket rubbed at extremities with a few small nicks and chips. Otherwise Very good/Very good. Map endsheets and pastedowns. "This little volume has been prepared to satisfy the curiosity of the hundreds of thousands..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997. First Edition. 313pp Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. With the exception of the usual sunning to the jacket's spine, this copy is nice. Very good/Near fine. Signed and dated (in the year..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. 477pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark blue cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page. D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans has elicited critical acclaim as well as controversy. Using..... More
Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. 188pp. Quarto [29 cm] Rust colored cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine. Lacks the glassine jacket. This edition was limited to 400 signed and numbered copies, this is copy 340. " The diary of the Reverend Alexander Taylor Rankin are..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1971. First Edition. 232pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and rules gilt on the backstrip. Better than very good. American Trails Series VIII (8). "The Parallel accounts of these two journalists are complimentary in their tale of overland travel at the close..... More