New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition. 740pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] 1/2 dark orange cloth over orange boards. Both the book and jacket are better than very good. Well received and celebrated biography of the founder of the Mormon faith. Winner of Mormon History Association's Best Book Award (2005)..... More
Tooele, UT: 2008. First Edition. [133pp]. Quarto [28 cm] White wrappers with the title printed in black on the front panel and backstrip. Near fine. A self-published homage to the 'Most Wanted Iraqi' playing cards, with the theme being decidedly conservative and religious: Norman Vincent Peale, Dan Quayle, Pat Boone..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. First Edition. 463pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine. Volume 5 in the ambitious and well received 'Kingdom in the West' series. In a labor extending over several years, Roger Robin Ekins has..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1963. First Edition. [50pp] Narrow octavo [26 cm x 12.5 cm] White printed cloth. Very good/Very good. Head of jacket's cover chipped, minor discoloring to boards. Inscribed by the author on the verso front free endsheet: "To Dorothy - a warm and wonderful woman..... More
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. "This..... 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
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 of..... 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
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
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
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
Salt Lake City: J.C. Graham & Co., 1884. First Edition. 131pp. Sextodecimo [18 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Better than very good. Biographical sketches of twenty-one notable women of Mormondom in the latter-half of the nineteenth century: Eliza R. Snow, Zina D...... 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
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