[Salt Lake City]: Hotel Utah, 1940. Single sheet [21 cm x 22 cm] Cream stock printed in red an green. Near fine. Scheduled Christmas and New Year's Eve events for 1940 at the Hotel Utah. The reverse is a mail-in RSVP. "Throughout the yuletide season the Hotel Utah provides gay, delightful... More about Happy Holidays at Hotel Utah
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Quarterly, January, 1928. Volume 1 - Number 1. 32pp. Octavo [23 cm] Gray printer wrappers. Very good. First issue of this important and long-running periodical. Articles are: 'Salutatory' by Albert F. Philips - 'Indian Names in Utah Geography' by William R. Palmer - 'Some... More about Utah Historical Quarterly. Volume 1 - Number 1
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1981. First Edition. 263pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. Definitive work on Joseph Morris, his followers that recounts the events that led up to the little known event in Utah history, 'The... More about For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga Of The Morrisites
[Salt Lake City]: [Bamberger Railroad], (c.1930. Broadside [28 cm x 21.5 cm] printed in red and green ink on an off-white sheet. Near fine. Promotional advertisement for the Intermountain West's longtime summer destination. "Lagoon - the fun spot of Utah - offers Amusement - clean, safe and wholesome, Gayety, but nothing... More about Lagoon Amusement Park Broadside
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1950. First Edition. 265pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with the title in gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Overall wear to spine sunned jacket with a few short closed tears and minor chipping at the corners with... More about Pageant in the Wilderness: The Story of the Escalante Expedition to the Interior Basin, 1776
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. 73pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Pictorial endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Inscribed by U.S. Senator from Utah, Elbert D. Thomas and his wife Edna on the front pastedown. Illustrated work... More about Acceptance of the Statue of Brigham Young, Presented by the State of Utah
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. 243pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Yellow cloth with the title in green on the front board and the backstrip. Near fine/Fine. Minor rubbing to the corners of a price clipped jacket. Definitive work on the massacre that took place in southern Utah on... More about The Mountain Meadows Massacre
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1862. First American Edition. 574pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth with decorative blind stamped boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Complete with both fold-outs. Internally fine. A very nice copy of this classic travel narrative, of Burton's visit to... More about The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
Provo, UT: Provo City Corporation, 2003. First Edition. 263pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Red illustrated wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by the author to David Bigler on the half-title: "David, I hope you enjoy the trip down this trail leading to Provo's origins. D. Robert Carter." More about Founding Fort Union: Provo's Native Inhabitants, Early Explorers, and First Year of Settlement
Logan: Utah State University, [1965]. First Edition. 58pp. Duodecimo [22 cm] Cream colored comb-bound wrappers. Very good. Nine pages at the center of black and white photographs, that are not included in the book's pagination. Short illustrated history with remembrances by the author, Alice Chase, who was married to USU... More about The Story of a House: The President's Home
Salt Lake City: Olympus Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. 264pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White printed boards. Near fine/Fine. An unusually clean copy of this history of labor in Territorial Utah, by a professor of economics at BYU. More about Deseret's Sons of Toil: A History of the Worker Movements of Territorial Utah, 1852-1896
Springville, UT: Art City Publishing Co, 1979. First Edition. 798pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Small rubbed spot on the front board, with gentle rubbing to the corners. Inscribed by the compiler, Stella Day, on the front... More about Builders of Early Millard: Biographies of Pioneers of Millard County 1850 to 1875
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 1890. First Edition. 56pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray illustrated wrappers. Very good. Gentle foxing at fore edge of textblock. D&RG promotional piece that is illustrated throughout. Offers a short history of the settlement and growth of Utah, and includes profiles of Salt Lake... More about Valleys of the Great Salt Lake. Describing the Garden of Utah and the Two Great Cities of Salt...
Salt Lake City: Student Association of East High School, 1966. 143pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] White side-stapled wrappers. A handful of manuscript notes and scribbles, otherwise very good. Handbook and directory printed for students that contains a brief history of the school (traditions, mascot, emblems, colors, etc.) which is followed by... More about The Leopard's Pa': A Handbook & Student Directory, 1966-1967
Salt Lake City: Student Association of East High School, 1968. 112pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Spiral bound printed covers. A handful of manuscript notes and scribbles, lacks pages 105/106 and 107/108 otherwise very good. Handbook and directory printed for students that contains a brief history of the school (traditions, mascot, emblems... More about The Leopard's Pa': A Handbook & Student Directory, 1968-1969
[Salt Lake City]: [1952-2006]. Scrapbook. [54pp.] Quarto [33 cm] Green vinyl side sewn album. This scrapbook contains photographs, ephemera, keepsakes, clipped newspaper articles, cards, notes, certificates, obituaries etc. that document three decades of history of an active chapter of the D.U.P. More about Daughters of Utah Pioneers Collection
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1996. First Edition. 438pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue buckram with gilt titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Illustrated with black and photographs. Published in conjunction with Utah's state centennial. Grand County is situated in southern Utah, with Arches, Canyonlands... More about A History of Grand County
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Salt Lake City: Allied Printing, [1937]. Election handbill [9.5 cm x 20 cm] printed on heavy card stock. Very good. Union slug at the center foot. On the right side is an image of the original Salt Lake airport with the 'Western Airlines' hanger in the background. "Pat is doing... More about Stand Pat with 'Pat' and Keep Them Flying by Re-electing P.H. (Pat) Goggin [Election Handbill
Salt Lake City: Skelton Publishing Co., 1919. First Edition. 352+16pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth with titles in white and a shield in red, white and blue stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Gentle rubbing to corners. Name in ink on the front free endsheet. The 16... More about History of Indian Depredations in Utah
Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1928. First Edition. 442pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped title and bands on the backstrip. Very good. Mild bumping to the lower corners of the boards. 'New Hampshire Historical Society. Collections. Volume 12' Complete with all five tipped-in plates. Overall a.... More about The Utah Expedition, 1857-1858: Letters of Capt. Jesse A. Gove, 10th Inf., U.S.A., of Concord,...
[Salt Lake City]: Hotel Utah, (c.1970). Sheet of printed letterhead [27 cm x 18.5 cm] printed mailing envelope [10.5 cm x 24 cm] Small ink scribble on the letterhead, otherwise both are fine. The Hotel Utah (1911-1987 ) was The hotel in Salt Lake, that over it's lifetime hosted presidents... More about Sheet of letterhead and printed envelope
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Quarterly, July, 1928. Volume 1 - Number 3. [67]-96pp. Octavo [23 cm] Gray printer wrappers. Very good. Third issue of this important and long-running periodical. Articles are: 'Gunnison Massacre, Indian Version' by Josiah F. Gibbs - 'Father Escalante and the Utah Indians' by J.... More about Utah Historical Quarterly. Volume 1 - Number 3
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition. 178pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green grained buckram with a blind stamped pioneer motif and the title in a gilt panel on the front board. Very good. Gentle bumping to the corners. Lacks the dust jacket. This is the first book length... More about Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the...
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 about Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the...
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1940. [65]-251pp. Octavo [24 cm] Tan yapp-style wrappers. Very good. Covers bumped at the extremities and show minor overall age toning. Internally clean. Volume 8 - Nos. 2-3-4 of the UHQ. Important work on the short lived 'State of Deseret' (1847-1849) by one... More about The State of Deseret