Los Angeles: [Los Angeles Coral of the Westerners], 1948. First Edition, 1/100. [10]pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and a green gilt stamped label on the front board. Near fine. Large fold-out map [25 cm x 56 cm] / [10" x 22"]..... 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
[New York]: [Russell Brothers], 1868. First Edition. 72pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over cream printed boards. Very good. Gentle age toning to boards. Second Deseret Alphabet primer, and one-of-four books printed by Brigham Young and the LDS Church in the Deseret Alphabet. Illustrations from the 'Wilson Readers.' "[Brigham]..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (c.1910). 534pp. Quarto [29 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over gray boards with paper label on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. In marbled slipcase. Illustrated pastedowns and endsheets. With 25 tipped-in color plates by Frank Reynolds, each with tissue guards. Lovely copy of..... More
Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2010. First Edition. 338pp. Quarto [29 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. "Of these numerous records from Standing Rock, perhaps the most historically..... More
Flagstaff, AZ: Fretwater Press, 2007. First Edition. 456pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title stamped in red on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Bert Loper was born in 1869 the very day that Major John Wesley Powell discovered the..... More
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition thus, 'New and Definitive Edition'. 2 volumes set. 674, 696pp. Quartos [36 cm] Tan cloth boards with blue labels on the backstrip. Both volumes better than very good. Internally nice. Complete with all plates including the large fold-out map (both in excellent condition)..... More
Boston: Published by Josiah Drake, 1833. 22+110+124+47+135pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full brown sheep with the title and devices gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good. Early anthropological work on the pre-colonial Native Americans of New England by the noted historian and antiquarian. Descriptions of the customs, cultural practices, religious ceremonies..... More
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1979. First Edition. 304pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with titles and rules gilt stamped on backstrips. Better than very good. Northwest Historical Series XIV (14). Siigned by the author on the title page. In this biography, Drury attempts to give a voice to a...... More
[Los Angeles]: Southern Pacific Lines, 1928. 15pp. Octavo [23 cm x 20 cm] Color illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Vertical fold as issued. Promotional work from Southern Pacific touting their service to Arizona and its dude ranches that is illustrated throughout with black and white views, including the double-page..... More
Santa Ana, CA: The Fine Arts Press, 1937. First Edition. 2 volume set. 273, 352pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] 1/2 brown leather over brown boards with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Near fine. Translated, edited, and annotated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Foreword by Frederick Webb Hodge. The author of..... More
[Laguna Hills, CA]: James Cahill Publishing, 1995. First Edition. [8]pp. Duodecimo [20.5 cm] Gray wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page. Short story from the noted and bestselling mystery author (and bookseller), John Dunning. "We all thought the book trade was above it - the quick..... More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. First Edition thus. 264pp. Quarto [29 cm] Tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Nice reprint of Dutton's monumental Grand Canyon work. "One of the greatest, if not the very greatest of all Grand Canyon..... More
San Francisco: Printed by Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers, 1866. Third Edition. 391pp. Octavo [22 cm] 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards with gilt title and raised bands to backstrip. Front board detached. Internally very good. Complete with all three plates and both maps. San Francisco had filed..... More
Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1941. First Edition. 270pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Near fine. Zion's Book Store stub at rear. Nice copy of Father Dwyer's dissertation, which has become the standard work on the interactions of Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah during the 19th..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1959. First Edition. [203]-327pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Contains the Morgan piece, 'The Changing Face of Salt Lake City.' This was essentially an offprint from the Utah Historical Quarterly but released as a monograph. Saunders 33. More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1967. Third Edition. 135pp. Octavo [26 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Contains the Morgan piece, 'The Changing Face of Salt Lake City.' This edition was reillustrated and again reset to follow the format and layout of the then current Utah Historical Quarterly. It..... More
Los Angeles: Printed for Glen Dawson. 1949. 26pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine. This small item is a reprint of a letter in the Niles National Register 61: 209 which was copied from the Evansville Journal. In the note on the..... More
Berkeley, CA: Published for the Bancroft Library by the University of California Press, 1963. First Edition. 2 volume set. 379, 294pp. Quarto [27 cm] Blue cloth with titles gilt on the backstrips. Minor sunning to volume one's jacket at the head and spine. Otherwise both volumes are better than very..... More
Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1966. First Edition. 118pp. Folio [36 cm] Full green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. The discovery of gold on the American River, east of Sacramento, on January 24, 1848, caused Stockton to transform from a small settlement..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1990. First Edition. 271pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the editor on the title page. - 'Latter Day Saint Scriptures and the Doctrine of Propositional Revelation' by Richard P. Howard - 'A Reinterpretation of Inspiration, Revelation, and Scripture' by Geoffrey F...... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005. First Editions. Two volume set. 648 + 265pp. Octavo [24 cm] Burgundy boards with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrip and flying angel devices blind stamped on the front boards. In burgundy slipcase. Both volumes. Fine/Fine. Both volumes are signed by the editors..... More
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Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1968. Volume 36, Number 1. 96pp. Octavo [26 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Contains the Morgan piece, 'Utah Before the Mormons.' Saunders 140. 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