Provo, UT: Provo City Corporation, 2003. First Edition. 263pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Red illustrated wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by the author to David Bigler on the half-title: "David, I hope you enjoy the trip down this trail leading to Provo's origins. D. Robert Carter." Illustrated with black and white views throughout..... More
Provo, UT: Provo City Corporation, 2003. First Edition. 263pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/ Near fine. Warmly inscribed by the author to fellow historian Will Bagley on the half-title. "Best wishes, Will. I hope you enjoy this..... More
Provo, UT: Provo City Corporation, 2008. First Edition. 262pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine. Warmly inscribed by the author to fellow historian Will Bagley on the half-title. "Best wishes to our friend Will Bagley. I hope you enjoy..... More
London: Printed for J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1843. First Edition. 277pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Original blind stamped brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Recased in original boards with the foot of the backstrip replaced. The frontispiece supplied. Very good. Internally clean and bright. Bookplate on the..... More
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1857. First Edition. 346+16pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Yellow pebbled cloth. Wear to corners and sunning to backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown and named blind stamped on the front free endsheet. Otherwise very good. Chandless crossed the plains as a wagon driver in the summer of..... More
Yellowstone Park, WY: Haynes Picture Shops, Inc, 1931. Fourth Edition. 94pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Orange printed wrappers. About very good. Backstrip has been repaired and tape at joint on title page. Illustrated humor work. "It is my purpose and intention in compiling this little book, Foolish Questions, to give to..... More
Denver, CO: Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, 1926. [30pp.] Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Promotional piece for the D&RGW that is illustrated with thirteen full-page tinted photographs. Images include Timpanogos, Saltair, Bryce, Taos and Ogden Canyon. "They must come to anyone with a flicker..... 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
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
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
Omaha, NE: Union Pacific Systems, 1929. First Edition. 40pp. Octavo [25 cm] Tan wrappers with the title and Old Faithful gold embossed with blue highlights on the cover. About very good. Gentle overall wear to covers. Illustrated guide of Yellowstone issued by Union Pacific, that offers descriptions of the various..... 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
Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1999. 186pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Early Oregon Trail travel narrative. According to Eberstadt: "The personal narrative of an Argonaut of 1851, with details of hardships and adventures on the..... More
Bismark, ND: Capital Book Co., 1926. First Edition. 324pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Jacket is nicked at corners and the faded spine has tape at the crown. Book is in nice condition. Complete with map and all plates..... 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
Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2011. First Edition. 2 volume set. 601pp. Quartos [28.5 cm] Illustrated boards. Both volumes fine. That America's westward expansion was a defining movement in the nation's long history is hardly open to dispute. Along with such important events as the Revolutionary War and independence, the creation..... 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
Sacramento: California Alaska-Yukon Exposition Commission, 1909. 172pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with nice color illustrated panels laid over. Very good. Bookplate on the front free endsheet. Work touting the Golden State that was produced for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition that was held in Seattle in 1909. Printed by..... 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
Casper, WY: Prairie Publishing, (c.1943). Fifth Edition (Revised). [72]pp. Oblong quarto [24 cm x 34 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Better than very good. Minor age-toning and discoloring to covers with nicking to backstrip. Internally nice. Nice Wyoming view book that includes 33 full-page black and white views with captions on..... 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
Denver: Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, 1891. 57pp. Duodecimo [21.5 cm] Yellow printed wrappers. About very good. Rear panel's lower left corner chipped with loss. A few nicks to the backstrip. Fold-out map present at the rear. Illustrated guide for the perspective rider of the D&RG, which was founded by..... More
Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Company, 1946. [42pp] Oblong quarto [25 cm x 30.5 cm] Gray printed wrappers with a photograph of the Upper Colorado on the front panel. Better than very good. 20 tinted plates [16.5 cm x 20] on white leaves with the facing page prints a paragraph description..... More