Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1930. First Edition. 328pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Near fine. American Waterways Series II (2). "This work includes much information on the rise and development of the logging industry. Blair was a partner..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1901. 458,464,466pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Map endsheets and pastedowns. All volumes very good or better. Illustrated with numerous photogravures. Classic work, that was from the beginning a critical and popular success, and represents a landmark..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005. Advance Reading Copy. 595pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Well written and researched work that contrasts the eras of the suffragist movement in Utah of the early 20th century and the anti-ERA movement of Utah of the later 20th century. "Early Utah leaders..... More
Salt Lake City: Brite Music Enterprises, 1981. 11pp. Quarto [28 cm] Gray covers. Very good. Minor crease to cover. Two faith-promoting songs for children by the prolific Janeen Brady. More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1998. First Edition. 476pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Signed by the editor on the half-title, with the volume prospectus laid in. Volume 3 in the ambitious and well received 'Kingdom in..... More
Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. 448pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Scoundrel's Tale is the story of Mormonism, Manifest Destiny and the conquest of California, Western exploration and settlement, the gold rush, vigilantism, and the Gilded Age. It is an amazing tale of the West, told in..... More
San Francisco: 1884. 40pp. Octavo [22 cm] Previously bound with stab holes at spine. Very good. California land promotion with sections titled: 'Description of San Luis Obispo County' - 'The Sacramento Valley and Tributary Country' - 'Amador County' - 'Butte County' - 'Colusa County' - 'El Dorado County' - 'Lake..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. 73pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Pictorial endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Inscribed by U.S. Senator from Utah, Elbert D. Thomas and his wife Edna on the front pastedown. Illustrated work..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. First Edition. 187pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth. Near fine. Prospectus laid in. This study discusses sixty-one Sioux, Cheyenne, and Crow pictographic drawings of the battle. Clark & Brunet 31. Hidden Springs of Custeriana Volume XIII (13). More
London: David Bogue, 1849. First Edition. 207pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Full red cloth with decorative blind stamping to boards and the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Frontis map of the gold fields of California. James S. Copley's bookplate on the front pastedown. Consulting what reports..... More
Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1982. First Edition. 342pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very/good/Near fine. Faint rubbing to extremities to the jacket. "Quicksand and Cactus, an autobiography by Juanita Brooks, could hardly be more appropriately named. Her life began in the..... More
Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1900. First Edition. 520pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt on the front board and on the backstrip. Decorative blind stamped borders to boards. Better than very good. A nice copy of this work. James Stephen Brown (1828-1902) was..... More
St. Louis: Patrice Press, 1988. First Edition. 221pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. First public appearance of this excellent trail history that was originally mimeographed and circulated internally at the National Park Service. Illustrated throughout..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1869. First Edition. 535+4pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Lavender boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Top corners bumped with backstrip uniformly faded. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Browne made a career as a journalist, government reporter, and travel writer. This work offers..... More
Manti, UT: Keen Impressions, 2016. First Edition. 4 volume set. 566,437,567,576pp. Quarto [29 cm] Illustrated boards. Fine. Comprehensive history of Milburn, Utah (pop. 738) in four profusely illustrated volumes. Milburn, Utah, is a small agricultural community in Sanpete County. We locate no institutional holdings and no sales histories for this..... More
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London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1901. Second Edition. 3 volume set. 222, [223]-526, [527]-702pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown cloth with titles stamped on black on the front boards and the backstrips. All volumes very good with slightly rolled text blocks. Volume VI [6], VII [7], and VIII..... More
San Francisco: Smith Research Associates, 1994. First Edition. 234pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. A veil of secrecy surrounds Mormon temple worship. While officially intended to preserve the sacredness of the experience, the silence leaves many Latter-day Saints mystified. What are..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997. First Edition. 393pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page, with the volume and series prospecti laid in. Volume 1 in the ambitious and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. First Edition. 448pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Green cloth with gilt titles and designs and the front board and backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Small library stamp on the title page and the final page of text. Small deaccession stamp on the..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First Edition. 707pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip and a beehive gilt on the front board. very good. Gentle wear to extremities. Complete with both fold-outs. A nice copy of this classic travel narrative, of Burton's..... More
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
London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1801. 2 volume set. 436, 446pp. Octavos [21 cm] Full leather with decorative gilt stamped borders to the boards. Title and decorative gilt stamping to backstrips. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Bookplates on the front free endsheets and pastedowns. Hinges have been professionally repaired. Very good..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988. First Edition. 346pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. In the late 1850s, United States president James Buchanan sent 2,000 troops to the desert territory to subdue the reportedly rebellious Mormons. Angry Utahns responded by waging..... More
[Saint Louis, MO]: The Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, [1964]. 35pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue wrappers. Very good. Association copy. Inscribed by the editor to Dale Morgan. "For Dale Morgan, with good wishes - George R. Brooks." More