Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition. 178pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown grained buckram with a stamped pioneer motif and the title in a gilt panel on the front board. Near fine. Minor rubbing to hinges. Lacks the dust jacket. This is the first book length work by..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Signed limited edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Housed in a double slipcase covered in red and green cloth. Paper label on green slipcase. Book in fine condition with the slipcases showing minor rubbing at the..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. First Edition. 411pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. A few small chips to the jacket. A nice copy of this work in the elusive jacket on Kelley's work to promote the..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1991. First Edition. 260pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with titles and rules gilt stamped on backstrips. Near fine/Near fine. Northwest Historical Series XVI (16). "This document, once attributed to Josef Espinosa y Tello, contains an account of the expedition of Galiano and Valdes y...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. First Edition. 469pp. Duodecimo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth with titles stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Price clipped jacket is nicked at the corners with small losses. Uncommon Butch Cassidy romance novel, by the author of Peaceable Kingdom. "It is..... More
Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2010. First Edition. 136pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Illustrated throughout. Warmly inscribed on the title page by the author to fellow historian Will Bagley, who authored the introduction. The period this study embraces is between..... More
Salt Lake City: Published at the Juvenile Instructor Office, 1884. First Edition. 62pp. Sextodecimo [19 cm] Green cloth with blind stamped floral borders to the boards and the title gilt stamped on the front board. Better than very good. Gift inscription on the front free endsheet from the year of..... More
Los Angeles: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1935. Second printing. [24]pp. Oblong octavo [15 cm x 23 cm] Color illustrated wrappers. About very good. Fold-out color bird's eye map [15 cm x 46 cm] Present at the rear and in bright condition. Work that offers a brief description of..... More
Salt Lake City: Latter Day Publications, 1974. First Edition. 222pp Octavo [22 cm] Light blue wrappers with the title on the front cover and backstrip. Near fine. Pro-life text from Rhea Allred Kunz (1906-1989) who was a devout fundamentalist and the daughter of Byron Harvey Allred ('A Leaf in Review')..... More
Salt Lake City: Latter-day Saints University, June, 1903. Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 1 - Number 1. 90pp. Octavo [22 cm] Printed gray wrappers. Very good. Top right corner of cover chipped with the head of the wrappers showing mild discoloration. This work offers short descriptions of the University, the staff and..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. First Edition. 242p. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 yellow cloth over black boards with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle rubbing to extremities of the jacket. "This lively biography describes how, in the spring of 1861, Cary and two other young men..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. 344pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with the titles in gilt relief panels on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. jacket is price-clipped. Signed by the author on the title page. Epic of the California Gold Rush and the author's..... More
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, (c.1912). 554pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth with the title and decorations gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Nice copy in jacket of the standard work on the Montana vigilantes and the Plummer gang of road agents. "Much and valuable frontier history..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951-1968. First Editions. 11 volume set. 352,362,372,411,333,361,369,420,320,353,80pp. Quartos [27 cm] Green cloth with gilt titles on the backstrip. Vol. VII ex-libris with usual marks, the other ten volumes very good in like jackets. Some of the volumes have owner bookplates on the front pastedowns. Thomas..... More
Bohemian Grove: Silverado Squatters [Grabhorn Press], 1959. First Edition. 20pp. Octavo [26 cm] Light blue wrappers with the title gilt stamped on the front panel. Very good. These letters are taken from volumes 5 and 6 of 'The Larkin Papers.' Thomas Oliver Larkin, probably the most influential merchant in Mexican..... More
Salt Lake City: Printed by Elbert C. Kirkham, 1959. Revised edition. 104pp. Quarto [28 cm] Light blue wrappers with photograph and title printed in dark blue on the front panel. Near fine. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. Recto of rear panel has a photograph of the Peruvian Lodge at..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition. 450pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth. Very good/Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners of price clipped jacket. Definitive and classic work on the Bent Brothers' oasis on the Arkansas River, that was the stop along the Santa Fe Trail, and for..... More
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1938. First Edition. 244pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip and front board. Very good. Gentle sunning to extremities of boards with a contemporary ownership inscription on the front free endsheet. "During his imprisonment Lee wrote the story..... More
San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1955. First Edition. Two volume set. 344, 480pp. Brown cloth with the red title labels on the backstrips. Very good/Very good. Minor age toning to jackets with a few small chips at the extremities. Map endsheets and pastedowns. John D. Lee was the only person..... More
El Paso: Texas Western Press, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1969. First Edition. 226pp. Octavo [24 cm] Tan cloth. Near fine/Near fine. "The author traces the development of ranching in South Texas, with particular emphasis on the heretofore unmentioned millions of sheep. His extensive research and wide personal..... More
Omaha: Union Pacific Railroad, 1910. 45pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Very good. Short promotional guide from Union Pacific for the prospective tourist to Salt Lake City. Twenty full-page black and white views illustrate the text - includes images of Saltair, the original Public Library (Hansen Planetarium), Beck Hot Springs..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. First Edition. 329pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title and bands gilt on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. This is volume 25 in the 'American Exploration and Travel Series.'. "Nearly four hundred frontiersmen left Austin in June, 1841, to establish a trade..... More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1959. 449pp. Octavo [25 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle wear to extremities of jacket. Fold-out map present in rear pocket. Illustrated throughout. Reprint of the original edition with added illustrations and an introduction by David F. Myrick..... More
New York: R.O. Ferrier & Co., 1882. 47pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan printed wrappers. About very good with the original covers showing some discoloring with a handful of small chips at the extremities. Internally clean. A forceful defense of polygamy, written by a prominent individual anarchist and labor activist. Egbert..... More
Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2016. First Edition. 698pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page and the series editor on the half-title, with the volume prospectus laid in. Volume 11..... More