New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. 637pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and one of the Kinderhook Plates gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Gentle rubbing to corners with a bookplate to the front pastedown. Complete with all..... 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, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008. First Edition. 492pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth with blue panels on the front board and backstrip with silver stamped titles. Fine. Volume 10 in the 'Kingdom of the West' series. Warmly inscribed by the editor: "To David Bigler, friend, teacher..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1976. First Edition. 365pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket. The Hakluyt Society - Second Series: Volume 147. Chronicling, in the main, the initial (albeit abortive) attempt to establish a spice trade in the..... More
Chicago: Mrs. H.B. Manford, Publisher, 1885. Revised Edition. 413pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Good. Mild rubbing to extremities and joints of boards. Bookplate on the front flyleaf. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. Front hinge going..... More
Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. 304pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle wear to corners of jacket. map endsheets and pastedowns. "In 1866, after a brilliant Civil War career, Captain (Brevet Major) Andrew Burt marched with..... More
Columbia, MO: E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1906. First Edition. 416pp. Octavo [22 cm] Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. Painstakingly researched; this book is concerned with the various families of Lewis in Virginia. The Lewis families tracing to Gloucester county..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908. First Edition. 272pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "Mrs. E.F. Samuels - from - K.C. McBeth - Lapwai, Id. Feb. 20th 1913." Interesting..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. First Edition. 285pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor overall discoloring to price clipped jacket. "Reduced to its simplest terms, barbed wire changed not only American but world-wide concepts of enclosure. Before its invention in..... More
Portland: Champoeg Press, 1954. First Edition. 84pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. This edition was printed in an edition of 500 copies. "The journal of Evan S. McComas, describing a trip from Iowa City to Oregon in 1862, contains nothing..... More
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1973. Later printing. 856pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black grained buckram with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endsheet otherwise nice. Lacks the jacket. Signed by Bruce R. McConkie on the front free endsheet..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1979. First Edition. 517pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Minor rubbing to the corners of the jacket. Second published title in McConkie's landmark Messiah series. "Such in any event is the labor..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978. First Edition. 636pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing to the jacket at the front fore edge. A nice clean copy of this work that is signed by McConkie..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947. Frederic Remington. First Edition. 157pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped red label on the backstrip. Near fine. Book closes with 48 full-page plates (29 in color), by the famous cowboy artist, Frederic Remington. More
Portland: Binfords & Mort Publishers, 1972. First Edition. 180pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light orange cloth with the title in dark brown on the front board and backstrip. Jacket is price clipped otherwise both the book and jacket are better than very good. Map on the endsheets and pastedowns. Illustrated. "Fascinating..... More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1940. First Edition. 286pp. Duodecimo [20.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped title to the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Minor wear to boards with a few small spots. Inscribed by McGavin on the front free endsheet: "To /..... More
San Diego: Southern California Panama Expositions Commission, 1914. 263pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Near fine in publisher's plain box. Promotional piece from a Southern California consortium for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, that contains history and current data and statistics of the area. Illustrated throughout. "The Southern California Panama Expositions..... More
Portland: Binfords & Mort Publishers, 1948. First Edition. 376pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt on a black label on the backstrip. Jacket is price clipped otherwise both the book and jacket are better than very good. Map on the front endsheet and pastedown. Illustrated. "These letters..... More
London: Hamish Hamiltan, 1978. First British Edition. 438pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "Coming into the Country is about Alaska and Alaskans - contemporary, for the most part, with occasional expeditions into Alaska's past. It is unforgettable blending of..... More
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967. First Edition. 427pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the title in silver on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Price-clipped jacket. "The controversy between the United States and Great Britain over the Oregon Country extended from the War of 1812 to 1846..... More
El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1962. Second Edition. 212pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black cloth. Faint rubbing to the corners of the jacket, otherwise near fine/near fine. This book deals with early days of El Paso and the bloody reign of the city marshals of El Paso. Illustrated by Tom Lea. "These..... More
Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Co., (c.1960). 61pp. Sexagesimo-quarto (64mo) [5.5 cm] White buckram covers with the title stamped in dark green on the front panel. Very good. Illustrated with six full-page woodcuts. "Your Little Bible: When the early Hebrews went to prayer in the morning, they wore on..... More