Omaha, NE: Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1909. First Edition. 61pp. Sextodecimo [18 cm] Tan printed wrappers. About very good. Some smudging to the first few leaves. Illustrated work on the fossil beds of the Laramie Plain and central Wyoming produced by the U.P. "In July, 1899, the passenger department of..... 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
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. First Edition. 411pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with decorative green floral pattern and the author and title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Gentle wear to extremities of boards and backstrip. 10pp of advertisments at end of text..... 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
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First Edition. 469pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 gray over burgundy boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. In the mid-1800s San Bernardino emerged as one of the largest settlements in southern California. It surpassed Pueblo de los Angeles and..... 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
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Rutledge Book, Prentice-Hall, 1973. Limited Edition. 384pp. Quarto [32 cm] 1/2 grained leather over cream canvas boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. AEG. Housed in a cream canvas slipcase. Better than very good in like slipcase. This edition was limited to 250 signed and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1983. First Edition. 2 volume set. 522, 534pp. Quartos [32 cm] Brown cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Housesed in a brown cloth slipcase. Better than very good in like slipcase. Illustrated work on the culture, craft, and ceremonials of the..... More
Bellevue, WA: Family Research and Development, 1996. First Edition. 939pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. This publication names nearly 10,000 descendants of John D. Lee, the only person charged and convicted of the atrocities of the Mountain Meadows..... 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
San Jose, CA: The Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894. First Edition. 498pp. Octavo [20 cm] Mustard colored cloth with the title and border stamped in black on the front board and the title is gilt stamped on the backstrip. Title blind stamped on the rear board. Very good. Classic..... More
Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates [Signature Books], 1994. First Edition. 244pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark brown cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed by Marquardt on the title page. For more than 150 years the story of Mormon origins has been rewritten..... 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
Little Rock, AR: August House, 1986. First Edition. 271pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheet and pastedowns. This volume attempts to assemble all the known records of the Arkansas gold seekers. It especially makes use of the contemporary Arkansas..... More
Phoenix, AZ: Manufacturing Stationers, 1921. First Edition. 307pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Portraits of Arizona Governor, Thomas E. Campbell, and the author on a single leaf and laid in. Inscribed by Le Roi Snow on the..... 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
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
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007. First Edition. 607pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed by the editors on the title page. The LDS hierarchy was divided in 1837 over the militarization of the church in Missouri. Many..... More
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First Edition. 389pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 tan cloth over brown boards. Fine/Fine. Sterling Moss McMurrin (1914-1996) was a liberal Mormon theologian and Philosophy professor at the University of Utah. He served as United States Commissioner of Education in the administration of President John..... More
Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1931. First Edition. 91pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over decorative paper boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in a matching slipcase. Both book and slipcase near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Uncommon bibliography that was produced in an edition..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1944. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Faint offsetting to pastedowns and endsheets from former jacket protecter. This work provides an historical and cultural background for the prewar..... More