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
Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997. 393pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. The official journal of the Brigham Young pioneer company is made available for the first time in this book. The arrival of Latter-day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake is one of the..... More
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Milano [Milan]: Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1875. First Edition. 161pp. Octavo [22cm] 1/2 calf over red and black marbled boards with raised bands and gilt stamped title and bands to backstrip. Near fine. Abridged edition of Burton's classic work in Italian with numerous illustrations from Le Tour du Monde. This work..... 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
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. Near fine. Signed by the series editor on the half-title, with the volume prospectus laid in. Volume 5 in the ambitious and well received 'Kingdom..... 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
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989. First Edition. 1/500. 286pp. Octavo [24 cm] Gray cloth with a light blue cloth wraparound. Near fine. This is the third title published in the Signature Books 'Significant Mormon Diaries' series. This work was limited to 500 numbered copies, this is copy 3. "Through this..... 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." 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
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1995. First Edition. 278pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Western Frontiersman Series XXIV (24). Working from the autobiographical writings of influential and legendary pioneers to California, the author weaves a tapestry of..... More
Portland: Champoeg Press, 1962. First Edition. 148pp. Octavo [27 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. While awaiting the opportunity to fight for his country after 1849, or possibly as a reaction to events in his homeland, Cipriani made..... 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
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
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
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