San Francisco: Gelber-Lilienthal, Inc. [Grabhorn Press], 1937. First Edition, 1/500. 78pp. Octavo [26 cm] 1/4 rust cloth over tan boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Near fine. Prospectus laid in. This edition was limited to 500 copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press and edited with an introduced by..... More
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1936. First Edition. 128pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green grained cloth with a blind stamped pioneer motif and the title in a gilt panel on the front board. Near fine. The printing of this book was limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 221..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Revised Edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Very good/Very good. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in the early West. From his early days along the Missouri River as a trapper until years later as an..... 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
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition. 152pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Better than very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, Charles Kelly, on the front free endsheet. The..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First Edition. 336pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with title and decorative silver stamping to backstrip. Large chip to jacket's front panel at the upper left. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Good/Near fine. Signed by the author and artist, Rockwell Kent, at the..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First Edition, First State. 292pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. About very good. Crown and foot of backstrip bumped. Textbook slightly rolled. Front board gently rubbed. Clarence King, the man Henry Adams called "the best..... 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
London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1928. First British Edition. 242pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Map endsheets and pastedowns. The Rainbow Bridge and Indian life in the Navaho country in an easy-going story..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1934. First Edition. 215pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Both jacket and book are about very good. Corners of jacket chipped with loss. Front hinge starting. Story about missionary work set in Zuni by Cornelius Kuipers (1898-1989)..... 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
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
Dugway, UT: Pioneer Press, 1973. First Edition. 312pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light blue grained buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. "In this small volume I have tried to set forth the salient features of E.B. Snow's public and private life - short..... More
Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1971. First Edition. 814pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/2 brown leather over light green illustrated boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Near fine. Erastus Snow (1818-1888) was a colonizer in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona; and he established southern settlements on the..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. First Edition. 450pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth. Very good/Very good. Minor rubbing to extremities 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
![Item #8145 [National Elk Refuge]. Stephen Nelson Leek](https://tschanzrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8145.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681775860)
[Jackson Hole, WY]: (c.1920). Panorama silver gelatin photograph [14 cm x 35.5 cm] / [5.5" x 14"]. Strong contrasts. View of a herd of elk. We believe this image is by Stephen N. Leak. Stephen Nelson Leak (1858-1943) was a longtime resident and founder of Jackson Hole, who settled in..... More
[Reno, NV]: Desert Research Institute, 1993. First Edition. 278pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] White illustrated boards. About very good. Name in ink on the front free endsheet. 'Discard' in ink on the top edge. Frederick West Lander was in many ways the epitome of a nineteenth century American hero. A handsome..... 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
![Item #8417 The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine [The Village Blacksmith]. Henry...](https://tschanzrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8417.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691445707)
New York: November, 1840. 370-460pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light blue printed wrappers. Better than very good. This issue contains the first printing of the Longfellow poem 'The Village Blacksmith.' The inspiration for this poem is commonly believed to have come from the Cambridge smithy, which the poet passed every day..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition. 322pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth with the title in red on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Price-clipped jackets is nicked at the corner and has a gently sunned spine. Uncommon biography and autobiography combined, as the author tells..... 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
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1967. Lakeside Classics number 65. 395pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Glassine jacket present. Near fine. The Klondike was the last of the great nineteenth-century gold rushes, a succession of frenzies that had..... 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