Logan: Utah State University Press, 1994. Limited Edition, 1/300. 2 volume set. 328, 126pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over tan cloth boards. Titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. In a matching slipcase. Near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown of 'West from..' Maps present in envelope at the..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011. First Edition. 616pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. The city council dealt with all sorts of problems, large and small. In 1841 it threatened to kill free-roaming dogs and pigs, but two..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1991. First Edition. 177pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. - 'Restoring the Church: Zion in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries' by Edwin B. Firmage - 'The Ambiguous Gift of Obedience' by Lavina Fielding Anderson - 'The Two Churches of Mormonism' by Ron Molen..... More
Stockton, CA: University of the Pacific, 1968. 63pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Contains the Morgan piece, 'New Light on Ashley and Jed Smith: Good luck and a sharp eye find missed data in an old paper.' Saunders 139. More
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967. First Edition. 76pp. Octavo [26.5 cm] Illustrated white boards. Near fine. Morgan's contribution to this book was from the Conference and was published twice the following year, first in Minnesota History and then reprinted in American West. It is essentially an historiographic essay..... More
Richmond, UT: Published by Howard R. Egan Estate, 1917. First Edition. 302pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Gray cloth with the title in black on the front boatrd and backstrip. Better than very good. Egan was part of the vanguard party from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City in 1847. He was a...... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995. First Edition. 247pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Eugene England gives the Christian ethic a seductive appeal. Drawing from experiences in Utah's trout streams, visiting strife torn Los Angeles, and living in American Samoa, England demonstrates surprising ways to bring about personal and..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1922. First Edition. 101pp. Octavo [25 cm] Brown cloth with the title printed on the spine. Near fine. Academic work on Mormon group life and culture, which would be revisited decades later by Arrington's Great Basin Kingdom. "To explain the Mormon community life in..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. First Edition. 320pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust colored cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. "Kit Carson's life story is, in essence, the story of the West as that region developed over the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. As such..... More
Phoenix, AZ: [State of Arizona], 1915-1918. First Editions. 8 volume set. Octavos [21.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the titles gilt on the backstrip. Very good. Bookplates on the front pastedowns and small abrasions from tag removal at the foot of the backstrips. Internally nice. Formidable history of Arizona by the..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. First Edition. 388pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Tan cloth with the title in brown on the front panel and backstrip. Minor age toning to jacket's spine, otherwise both book and jacket are better than very good. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Spine..... More
Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. 271pp. Octavo [25 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Warmly inscribed by the authors on the half-title page. The Fifes' interest in western song and verse dates back to their graduate student..... More
[Bloomington, IN]: Journal of American Folklore, [1948]. 19-30pp. Octavo [25 cm] Light yellow wrappers. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the cover. Retention copy of a three page letter from Austin Fife to Dale Morgan laid in. More
Denver: Colorado & Southern Railway, 1910. [46]pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Gray printed wrappers. Very good. Promotional work from the Colorado & Southern Railway that offers views and descriptions of a few of the scenic delights that a passenger might see. "How long ago these towering mountains were lifted from the..... More
St. Paul: Great Northern Railway, [1927]. 40pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Near fine. Brief illustrated history of the Northwest produced for the Great Northern Railway and illustrated with black and white views and illustrations. Large folding-map [22 cm x 53.5 cm] 'Historic Adventure Land the Northwest ' present..... More
Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006. First Edition. 314pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue colored cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and the backstrip. Fine. Frontier Military Series XXV (25). Warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title: "June 1, 2006. To Hugh, Best Wishes..... More
Sequim, WA: Fletcher Family Foundation, 1999 & 2001. First Editions. 3 volumes in 2 books. 418, 445 pp. Quartos [29 cm] Red illustrated cloth with the title gilt on the front boards and backstrips. Both volumes near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Signed by the authors on the title-pages of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. 1/425. 65pp. Octavo [27 cm] Gray printed boards. Fine. Fremont's maps and his Congressional report served for a decade as the basis of much of the general geographical knowledge of the West until the Pacific Railroad Exploration surveys and the King, Hayden..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1983. First Edition. 74pp. Quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth with a paper label on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Complete with five color plates [20 cm x 26 cm] by Black Horse. Account of the first major bloodletting between the U.S. Army and..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. First Edition. 145pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle rubbing to the extremities of the jacket. This is volume 56 in the 'The American Exploration and Travel Series.'. "This contemporary account of the movement of..... More
Stoughton, MA: Western Hemisphere, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 390pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Near fine. Fold-out map present at the rear. "If those who read Howard Gardiner's account of his experiences in California between 1849 and 1857 will thereafter return..... More
Stoughton, MA: Western Hemisphere, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 390pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 dark brown leather over tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in a matching tan cloth slipcase. Fold-out map present at the rear. Near fine. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. "The critical problem arising from Russian expansion across Asia was that of supplying the outermost reaches with food. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the..... More
Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1981. First Edition. 30pp. Folio [39 cm] 1/4 vellum over decorative paper boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Private bookplate on the front pastedown. This edition was limited to 300 numbered copies containing an original leaf on handmade paper..... More
Salt Lake City: Bureau of Information, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1918. 24pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Green printed wrappers. Very good. "Although constant reference is made in this treatise to the loyalty of the Mormon people, mainly because of the persistent falsehoods circulated by hireling agitators in..... More