Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009. First Edition. 320pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and the backstrip. Fine. Warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Dave and Evah Bigler, with many thanks for leading the way... More about Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1995. First Edition. 302pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth. Fine/Fine. Western Frontiersman Series XXV (25). "Klingensmith, the first participant in the infamous event to break silence, was the author's great grandfather. It is a detailed account of the massacre and its effect on those who... More about Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith
Los Angeles: Westernlore Books, 1978. First Edition. 151pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Publisher's brown grained buckram with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/ Near fine. "This book deals with the military operations to put down the 'Mormon Rebellion' of 1857 and, more importantly, the turmoil that accompanied it. With... More about Holy Smoke: A Dissertation on the Utah War
Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2000. First Edition. 492pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth with blue panels on the front board and backstrip with silver stamped titles. Fine. Volume 4 in the 'Kingdom of the West' series. Prospectus laid in. Warmly inscribed by one of the editors... More about Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives
Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997. First Edition, 1/67. 24pp. Octavo [33 cm] Light blue wrappers. Near fine. This keepsake is comprised of six letters from various issues of the Millennial Star, selected and introduced by Will Bagley to accompany the publication of 'The Pioneer Camp of the Saints,'... More about Glorious News From the Salt Lake: The Millennial Star Mormon Trail Letters of Thomas Bullock
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1999. First Edition. 187pp. Octavo [25 cm] Dark red grained buckram with wraparound printed paper label. Fine. Warmly inscribed by the author to David Bigler: "To Dave Enjoy this trip with Cannon to California in '49. Your friend, Michael N. Landon." TLS from Landon... More about The Journals of George Q. Cannon, Volume I: To California in '49
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1947. First Edition. 41pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Pioneer illustration on the front board. Better than very good. Two different addresses by Clark on the Mormon Pioneers coming to Utah, both... More about To Them of the Last Wagon & The Pioneers
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Library, 1973-1995. First Editions. 14 volume set. 346,93,92,149,82,118,148,111,231,105,227,190,164,183pp. Octavos (varying sizes). Thirteen bound in full cloth. Owner's bookplate on the front pastedowns. All volumes Near fine in like jackets. - 'A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner.' - 'Letters of Long Ago' by Agnes..... More about Tanner Trust Fund Series
Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006. First Edition. 314pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue colored cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and the backstrip. Fine. Frontier Military Series XXV (25). Warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title: "March 24, 2007 - David Bigler Mentor... More about History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., 1854. First Edition. 447+[6]pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown blind stamped cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Very good. Backstrip is faded. Gentle foxing throughout. "Important source book written by one who was active in the affairs of the state from its beginnings." -... More about A History of Illinois, from its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Containing a Full...
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1954. First Edition. 290pp. Octavo [24 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Fold-out map present at the rear. Illustrated with photographs and maps. very good/Very good. Minor chipping and nicking to corners... More about Colonia Juarez: An Intimate Account of a Mormon Village
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 about At Sword's Point, Part I: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1987. First Edition. 65pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Near fine. Guidebook produced to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the LDS Church in the United Kingdom. Illustrated with maps throughout. Surprisingly uncommon, I can locate three institutional holdings (BYU - LDS CHL - Fam. Hist... More about Historic Sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1973. First Edition. 309pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. map endsheets and pastedowns. Fortified with a strong sense of mission and a firm belief in manifest destiny, guided by desert... More about Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994, 1997, 2017. First Editions. Three volume set. 685, 928, 597pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] All volumes bound in gray cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front boards and backstrips. 'Origins' & 'Extensions' both stamped review copy on the title pages. All are near... More about The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power - Extensions of Power - Wealth & Corporate Power
[New York]: [1878]. 33pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Side sewn but previously bound. Lacks wrapper and the pages have manuscript renumbering at the head (pp. 489-522). Otherwise very good. Uncommon pro-polygamy work that was penned after the Reynolds decision, and before the raids that would make fugitives of many. Flake/Draper 6835. "The... More about Bigamy and Polygamy. Review of the Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, Rendered at...
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1966. First Edition. 399pp. Quarto [26 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Gentle fading to jacket's spine. Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page: "To my good friend David... More about Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of Thunder - Son of God
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1983. Second Edition. 417pp. Quarto [26 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Lacks the dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front endsheet: "To Dave Bigler A good friend and... More about Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of Thunder - Son of God
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. 331pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Purple cloth with silver stamped titles on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Spine of jacket shows browning and age toning. Wallace Stegner's work on the great Mormon Trek from Nauvoo to the Great Basin in 1846-1847, and the... More about The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. 331pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Purple cloth with silver stamped titles on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Age toning to spine and extremities of price clipped jacket. Wallace Stegner's work on the great Mormon Trek from Nauvoo to the Great Basin in 1846-1847... More about The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
Peoria, IL: Steam Press of N.C. Nason, 1871. First Edition. 163pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Good. Extremities of boards rubbed with the cloth chipped at the spine ends. Gentle foxing to endsheets. History of Canton, Illinois by the son of the... More about Canton: Its Pioneers and History. A Contribution to the History of Fulton County
Salt Lake City: Printed by Elbert C. Kirkham Company, [1956]. First Edition. 100pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Tan side-stapled wrappers with a brown binder's tape spine. Title printed in brown on the front panel. Very good. Gentle wear to the covers with some minor bumping to the corners. Illustrated with six... More about A Review of Draper History: Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Draper Ward,...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. First Edition. 371pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title stamped in black on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. Well received work on the bloodbath in Southern Utah that occurred in 1857. "It was a considerable time before more... More about Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Legend and a Monumental Crime