Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. First Edition. 126 facsimile maps. Folio [51 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle sunning to extremities and backstrip. When the Corps of Discovery left the vicinity of St. Louis in 1804 to explore..... More
Denver: Artcraft Press, 1955. First Edition, 1,500. 189pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] 1/4 green cloth over light green boards with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip and the front board. Very good. A few small scuffs to the front board. Large fold-out map present at the rear. This..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. First Edition. 304pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 tan cloth over gray boards. "Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851..... More
Salt Lake City: Truth Publication Company, June, 1935 - May, 1939. Volume 1, Number 1 - Volume 4, Number 12. 240, 240pp. 48 issues. Octavos [25 cm] Bound in green buckram with gilt bands and titles on the backstrips. Both volumes better than very good. The first forty-eight issues of..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First Edition. 347pp. Octavo [20 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle rubbing to corners of boards. Lengthy contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. "This book is offered to the consideration of..... More
Provo: N.L. Nelson, 1904. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4. 412pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Complete run of this quarterly magazine, owned and edited by N. L. Nelson, professor of English, Brigham Young University, to apply theology to..... More
San Francisco: William Hamilton Nelson, 1932. Third Edition. 133pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Orange cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A few small nicks to the jacket's corners. Being a series of connected sketches of the youngest state in the American Union..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 2005. Second Edition, 1/100. 609pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Full dark blue leather with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. A.E.G. Satin endsheets and pastedowns. Fine. This special edition was produced in a limitation of 100 numbered copies, this is copy 25. This is..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1947. Fifth Printing. 372pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed by Nibley on the front free endsheet: "To Cannon Lund / with best..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. First Edition. 247pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Burgundy boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Subtle sunning to spine of jacket. Inscribed to fellow historian, Will Bagley, on the title page. Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power reveals insights into the complex..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. 418pp. Quarto [26 cm] Black cloth with the title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. From primary sources collected over thirty years, both textual and photographic, the author tells the story of the military subjugation of these Plains Indians and their removal..... More
Chicago: Belford, Clarke, & Co., 1881. First Edition. 286 + [16]pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Yellow cloth with titles and mule illustration stamped in black and gilt. Very good. Gentle wear to boards, internally nice. "This book deals largely with the singular scenery and Peculiar people of the Rocky Mountains. It..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. 241pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth. A few small chips to the extremities of the jacket otherwise book and jacket better than very good. "In that game Jim Stanton, by profession a gambler, and by avocation a connoisseur of guns, won a store..... More
Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1929. First Edition. 126pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Near fine. Inscribed by George H. Brimhall to Franklin S. Harris in the year of publication on the front free endsheet: "George H. Brimhall from President Franklin..... More
Portland: The Oregon Historical Records Survey, February, 1941. 332pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers with a binder's tape spine as issued. Very good. Title manuscript in white on the spine. WPA work detailing the holdings of the Wasco County archives located in The Dalles. Uncommon. More
San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1966. First Edition. 233pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light blue cloth. Near fine/Near fine. "Dr. Albert G. Osburn's two-year odyssey from 1849 to 1851 first takes him to mine for gold on the Yuba and upper Sacramento rivers. He was one of the leaders of a...... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, December, 1926. 269pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Lower half of jacket's spine missing. Former owner name in ink on the rear free endsheet. Epic poem describing the Mormon Pioneer..... More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1927. 256pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Small faint staining to backstrip and rear board. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed on the limitation page [front free..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1971. First Edition. 203pp. Octavo [26 cm] Light blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Ex-lib with very few marks (blind stamp on title page and scuff to rear free endsheet for pocket removal) and..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004. First Edition. 397pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Signed by the author and the series editor on the half-title, with the volume prospectus laid in. Volume 7 in the ambitious and..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Quarterly, October, 1928. Volume 1 - Number 4. [101]-128pp. Octavo [23 cm] Gray printer wrappers. Very good. Fourth issue of this important and long-running periodical. Articles are: 'Personal Recollections of Wash-a-kie, Chief of the Shoshones' by P.L. Williams - 'Father Escalante and the Utah..... More
[Provo, UT]: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 1982. First Edition. 106pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with silver stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Fine. This work covers the formative years of Young's life, including his conversion to the Mormon faith, and the development of his..... More
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. First Edition. 336pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip and front board. Fine. American Trails Series XX (20). The first scholarly work on children's narratives of the trail. Although at least one-fifth of the approximately 350,000..... More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 289pp. Quarto [26 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt on black labels on the front board and backstrip. Very good. "The history of Elizabethan expansion is to a great extant the work of Richard Hakluyt, to a greater extent perhaps than the record..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1962. First Edition. 196pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White buckram with the title in red on the backstrip and printed blood splatters on the front board. Black buckram slipcase with printed white a wraparound printed label. The backstrip is gently sunned. Stain to wraparound label on..... More