New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921, 1923. Two Volume Set. 527, 512pp. Dark blue cloth with the title and bands gilt stamped on the backstrip. Both volumes better than very good. Bookplates on the front pastedown of both volumes. History of California in two volumes. "With the exception of a...... More
Pierre, SD: Lawrence K. Fox - Superintendent, Department of History, State of South Dakota, 1932. 458pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon was appointed main trader at Fort Clark, a post of the American..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. First Edition. 221pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title in silver on the backstrip. Very good. Lacks the jacket. Published for the American Folklore Society. "So abundant are the songs that the Mormon folk have composed and sung at all of the..... More
Taipei: Wen Wen Printing Company, 1980. Third printing. Triple Combination. 718+74+462+108pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Black smooth buckram with Chinese titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. This is the third printing of the Triple Combination in Chinese and contains the new revelations (secs. 137, 138) added..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. First Edition. 322pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Spain in the West Series X (10). "Nuno Beltran de Guzman ranks second only to Hernan Cortes in importance in the early conquest of New..... More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1947. First Edition. 41pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Pioneer illustration on the front board. Better than very good. Two different addresses by Clark on the Mormon Pioneers coming to Utah, both..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Fourth Printing. 322pp. Octavo [24 cm] Tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770-1838) wrote at least forty-six letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1991. First Edition. 1/500. 580pp. Octavo [24 cm] Gray cloth with a blue cloth wraparound. Near fine. This is the fifth title published in the Signature Books 'Significant Mormon Diaries' series. This work was limited to 500 numbered copies, this is copy 303. William Clayton is..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. First Edition. 222pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and bands gilt on the backstrip. Both the book and jacket are better than very good. This is volume 64 in the 'American Exploration and Travel Series.'. Born in 1790 in Canada, Peter..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005. First Edition. 203pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip and front board. Fine. Western Frontiersman Series XXXIII (33). During his adventurous life span of sixty-one years, 'Pomp,' whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, successfully integrated the..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. First Edition. 441pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over tan boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. "Perhaps no episode in American history has done so much to forge our attitudes and national character..... More
Tucson: Dale Stuart King, Publisher, 1968. First Edition. 310pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue felt over grained gold colored buckram with the title gilt on front board and backstrip. Orange marbled endsheets. Near fine. This deluxe first edition was limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this is copy..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1965. 2 volume set. 1027pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the titles gilt on the backstrips. Both volumes near fine in like slipcase with paper printed label. Complete with maps in pocket at the rear of vol. II. Volume I: The Red River of..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1971. First Edition. 141pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Orange illustrated cloth that matches the jacket . Very good/Fine. Spine of jacket faded, Boards and internally very nice. Before "Seven Habits," and when Covey, wasn't a self-help guru, but a modest associate professor at BYU, this..... More
Portland: Binfords & Mort Publishers, 1973. First Edition. 318pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Light gray grained buckram. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by thirteen of the contributors on the half-title (one is an author's hand stamp). "Land of the Multnomahs is the united effort of members of the Creative Writers group of..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1967. First Edition. 144pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Near fine/Near fine. A juvenile edition of Greenwood's biography compiled from Dale Morgan and Charles Kelly's book, and printed by the same press. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1989. First Edition. 219pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Brown cloth with title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Western Lands and Water Series XV (15). "The Jornada del Muerto was a stretch of road, a shortcut actually. on the Camino Real from New Spain to..... More
Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers, 1973. Second printing. 326pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Association copy. Warmly inscribed by Jean D. Crowther to Carol Lynn Pearson on the verso of the front flyleaf. "To Carol Lynn, We..... More
Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1975. Reprint. 441pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title in red on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. "The gunfighters live again in Triggernometry; they do their deeds, and speak grimly or with the sardonic humor of the man of action, and win..... More
Kansas City, MO: Published by Fred Harvey, 1923. Seventh edition. 74pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Gray printed wrappers. Backstrip gently faded otherwise very good. Illustrated with diagrams and black and white images throughout. The purpose of this guide is to point out the more important relations of the rocks and to..... More
Salt Lake City: Olympus Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. 264pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White printed boards. Near fine/Fine. An unusually clean copy of this history of labor in Territorial Utah, by a professor of economics at BYU. More
Salt Lake City: Utah Arts Council, 1980. First Edition. 169pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Ex-libris Emma Lou Thayne. Warmly inscribed by the author to Emma Lou Thayne on the front flyleaf: "For Dear Emma Lou..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1979. First Edition. 206pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Mild discoloring to the rear panel of the price-clipped jacket. The Hakluyt Society - Second Series: Volume 150. In May 1517, Luigi of Aragon, one of..... More
Portland: Western Imprints - The Press of the Oregon Historical Society, 1985. First Edition. 167pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 red cloth over orange boards. Near fine/Near fine. Translated and annotated by Herbert K. Beals. "An English translation of the Diario of Bruno de Hezeta y Dudagoitia is long overdue. The..... More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. 256pp. Quarto [27 cm] Burgundy cloth. Near fine/Very good. Jacket has three short closed tears. This is the first translation of this work that recounts the incredible achievement of a dedicated group of Jesuit padres in "civilizing and converting" to Christianity approximately..... More