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KEN SANDERS RARE BOOKS
CATALOGUE 29
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TERMS
I. UTAH & THE MORMONS
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II. WESTERN AMERICANA
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III. SOUVENIRS
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IV. FINE PRESSES
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V. ART, ILLUSTRATED & CHILDREN’S
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VI. AMERICANA & OTHER FINE ITEMS
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VII. LITERATURE & MODERN FIRSTS
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TERMS
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Catalogue compiled by Kent Tschanz, with assistance by
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Photography by Anthony Lordeman
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I.UTAH & THE MORMONS
1. Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith
and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom
Came to America between the Years 1620 and 1685, and Settled in the States of
Massachusetts and Connecticut. Independence, MO: [Herald Publishing House],
1929. First Edition. 720pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped profiles on
front board and title gilt stamped on backstrip. Near fine. Faint rubbing to corners of
boards. Contemporary gift inscription in ink on front pastedown and recto of front
free endsheet.
Family history of the charismatic founder of the Latter-day Saint faith. Profusely illustrated
with photographs. Includes an index. Fold-out diagram at center present, and in nice condition.
Flake/Draper 122
$800
Woman’s Suffrage & Mormonism
2. [Anti-Mormon]. National Society for Maintaining American
Institutions. New York: 1911. Circular is a single sheet folded in half with content
on three pages (including cover). Invitation is a single sheet on letterhead that is
signed at the foot. Both near fine.
Prospectus circular and invitation letter from this incipient organization. Preserving the family by
fighting such evils as woman's suffrage and Mormonism, this well-heeled group of reactionary men and
women produced a well-printed circular and sought to engage prominent citizens to represent and support
their causes. Article II is 'Woman's True Rights and Anti-Suffrage Department" and Article II is the
"Anti-Mormon Department". Not in Flake/Draper.
$350
3. Backus, Anna Jean. Mountain Meadows Witness: The life and times of
Bishop Philip Klingensmith. Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1995.
First Edition. 302pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth with gilt rules and title on backstrip.
Fine in like jacket.
Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. Inscription reads: "To ____ ____ - May
you be - blessed with decrement - Sincerely, - Anna Jean Backus".
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 survived. American
Century 11.
$150
Tabernacle Choir Conductor Memoir
4. Beesley, Sterling E. Kind Words the Beginnings of Mormon Melody: A
Historical Biography and Anthology of the Life and Works of
Ebenezer Beesley, Utah Pioneer Musician. Containing an Account from the
Emigration of 1859 and the Evolution of Latter-day Saint Psalmody. First Edition,
1/300. 835pp. Quarto [28 cm] Bound in publishers grained brown buckram with gilt
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stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine. Scarce work on the pioneer
musician, hymn composer, and former conductor of the Tabernacle Choir.
$450
Early Mormon Insider’s Scandalous Account
5. Bennett, John Cook. History of the Saints; or, an Expose of Joe Smith
and Mormonism. Boston, MA: Leland & Whiting, 1842. Third edition. 344pp.
Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Good. Volume
has been rebacked with original backstrip laid over, boards rubbed and discolored,
bookplate on front pastedown, minor sporadic foxing.
An early and influential Mormon, Bennett was later exposed as a charlatan. After being run out of Nauvoo
he penned this "expose". Later in his life he had a short lived association with the Beaver Island Colony
(Strangites). Probably best known for coining the term "Spirtual Wifery". Still an important contemporary and firsthand account of life in Mormon Nauvoo. Flake/Draper 403. Howes B352. Scallawagiana 24.
$2,500
6. Bennett, John Cook. History of the Saints; or, an Expose of Joe Smith
and Mormonism. Boston, MA: Leland & Whiting, 1842. Third edition. 344pp.
Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown cloth with decorative blind stamping to boards and gilt
stamped title on backstrip. Fine. Sporadic foxing throughout. Contemporary name in
ink on front free endsheet and again on the title page. Original binding in excellent
condition. A beautiful copy. Scarce in this lovely condition. Flake/Draper 403. Howes
B352. Scallawagiana 24.
$3,500
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19th Century “Bastard” Book of Mormon
7. [Smith, Joseph]. Book of Mormon. New York: Jas. O. Wright & Company,
1859. Second issue. 380pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Original Brown cloth with decorative
blind stamping and title gilt on backstrip. Fine. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front free endsheet. Internally
fine. Boards are sharp and tight.
This is the second issue of the James Wright edition. Wright printed the work not as a faith promoting exercise, but a profit promoting exercise. Wright was a businessman who saw a need in the marketplace for new
Book of Mormons. After the 1842 Nauvoo edition there was not another LDS sanctioned edition printed
in the United States until the Salt Lake 1871 and this is the only 19th century Book of Mormon not printed by the LDS or RLDS churches. There were two issues of the Wright edition. The second also called the
"Brooks Huntley", has an in introduction by Zadoc Brook. Flake/Draper 605. Morgan III:74.
$3,000
Second European Book of Mormon
8. [Smith, Joseph]. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of
Mormon, Upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi. Liverpool: Published by
Orson Pratt, 1849. Second European Edition. 563pp. Sextodecimo [14.5 cm] Original
green leather with decorative blind stamping to boards and title gilt stamped on backstrip. Volume has been rebacked in matching cloth with original backstrip laid over.
Hinges have been professionally repaired. Extremities have front free endsheet and
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half-title have been professionally repaired. Contemporary name and place in ink on
front free endsheet. Internally very clean with very little foxing.
This is a reprint of the 1841 edition with only a few subtle changes. Orson Pratt added a half-title,
combined the three and eight witness statement to a single page and moved the index to the front of the volume and renamed it contents. For unknown reasons, Pratt added very few of the Joseph Smith changes from
the Nauvoo editions. Crawley 415. Flake/Draper 600.
$10,000
First Pulpit Book of Mormon
9. [Smith, Joseph]. Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of
Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. Salt Lake City, UT: Juvenile
Instructor Office, 1888. First Lectern Edition. 623pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Black cloth
with blind stamped borders to front and rear board. Title gilt stamped on front board
and backstrip. Floral pastedowns and endsheets. This is the only oversized 19th
century large print edition of the Book of Mormon. A very nice copy with only the
faintest of rubbing to the corners. We have not seen a nicer copy of this edition.
Flake/Draper 625
$1,500
First Swedish Book of Mormon
10. [Smith, Joseph]. Mormons Bok: En Berattelse, Skrifven Med Mormons Hand
Pa Plater Efter Nephi Platar [Swedish Book of Mormon]. [Salt Lake City, UT]: [The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], 1878. First Edition. 676pp. Octavo [19.5
cm] Full brown morocco with decorative blind stamping to front and rear board.
Ornate blind stamped bands on backstrip. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Gilt
stamped bands on backstrip. Very good. Gentle fading to backstrip. Light rubbing to
extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Contemporary name and date in ink at
the head of the front free endsheet. Small hole in rear free endsheet.
Originally translated by John C. Sandberg and August W. Carlson from August 1877 to June 1878.
Revisions and corrections were made during the translation by Sandberg and Carlson as well. Issued in
installments of 64 pages to about 300 subscribers. 3,000 copies printed by F.E. Bording of Copenhagen.
Jacobs 480.B. Flake/Draper 742. Sabin 83142.
$3,000
Deseret Alphabet Book of Mormon
11. Smith, Joseph [Deseret Alphabet]. Book of Mormon: An account written by
the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi. New York:
Published for the Deseret University by Russell Bros., 1869. 443pp. Octavo [23 cm]
Black cloth with gilt stamped title and temple on backstrip. Near fine with
subtle rolling.
This is one of the scarcer Books of Mormon with a print run much smaller than the Palmyra or Kirtland
editions. The Deseret Alphabet was introduced in 1854 and was created by Parley P. Pratt, Heber C.
Kimball and George D. Watt. Made up of thirty-eight characters to correlate with basic sounds in the
English language, the Deseret Alphabet was intended to be used to help simplify the principles of the English
language. The creation of the language was one the more unusual ideas of Brigham Young,
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and was never embraced in the way he thought it would be. The Deseret Alphabet was
abandoned shortly after Young's death. Flake/Draper 607. Jacobs 86.B
$7,500
Book of Mormon Parallel
12. [Book of Mormon Parallel]. The Christian Economy. Translated from the
Original Greek, of an old Manuscript, Found in the Island of Patmos, Where St. John
Wrote his Book of the Revelations. Philadelphia, PA: Printed by Mathew Carey, 1808.
55pp. Sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Original plain calf. Rubbing to extremities. Corners
bumped and almost rubbed through. Minor splitting to backstrip mostly at foot.
Pages yellowed with sporadic foxing throughout.
Curious and unexplained text, the National Union Catalog shows some fifteen editions printed in England
and America between 1760 and 1841. A strange and evidently fabricated scripture from the eighteenth
century.
Of interest here for what it represents, rather than for any particular Mormon parallels in the text itself.
The public's fascination for such apparently newly discovered scripture helps explain the appeal of Joseph
Smith's revelatory translations of previously unheard of relics. Of all such objects, such as the Book of
Mormon, the Book of Abraham, and the Kinderhook Plates, the very earliest of any to be translated completely by Joseph Smith was - somewhat coincidentally to The Christian Economy - a writing of "John, the
beloved disciple...Translated from parchment, written and hid up by himself." (D&C 7).
Later speaking of another intriguing text, the Apocrypha, Joseph recorded that while it must be approached
with caution, "There are many things contained therein that are true....and whoso is enlightened by the
Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom..." (D&C 91:1,5). A similar attitude is expressed in the Christian
Economy preface, observing that "it matters little by whom a treatise is written, if the work itself be good
and profitable: nay what consequence is it to us...were it the mere work of a modern divine, were it only the
production of the present age". pp. 11-12. Mormon Parallels.
$300
13. Brown, Lisle G. Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: A
Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances
1841-1846. Salt Lake City, UT: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006. Limited Edition.
395pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Gray cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Fine. Limited edition of only 175 copies. Comprehensive register of persons
receiving LDS temple ordinances during 1841 to 1846. An important genealogical
and historical reference, published in a highly limited edition.
$200
Gold Rush Mormon Newspaper
14. Cannon, George Quayle. Writings from the "Western Standard,"
Published in San Francisco, California. Liverpool: Published by George Q.
Cannon, 1864. 512pp. Octavo [22 cm] Full diced leather with gilt rules and title on
backstrip. Very good. Joints have been professionally repaired, light bumping to corners, gift inscription in ink on front pastedown, short pencil notation at head on verso
of front free endsheet, small faint stain on Introductory Address.
George Q. Cannon's weekly periodical detailing the activities of the Saints in California during the Gold
Rush. Flake/Draper 1174. Howes C116.
$1,000
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Early Salt Lake Fire Company History
15. [Carpenter, George E.]. Souvenir History of the Salt Lake Fire
Company, 1852 to August, 1901. [Salt Lake City, UT]: Press of Deseret News.,
August, 1901. 105pp. Quarto [31.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on front
board and blind stamped rules. Near Fine. Light rubbing to extremities. Minor
bumping to corners. Faint staining near fore edge of front board. Front free endsheet
loose with contemporary gift inscription in ink. Otherwise fine.
Contains the 'Last Roll Call of the Old Mormon Fire Department, December 31, 1889'. Roll call includes
all the active firemen for this station as well as a large picture of some of the men with carriages in front of
the firehouse. Published in the Interest of the Firemen's Relief Association. James Devine, Chief. Profusely
illustrated with photographs of fire engines, fire stations and firemen and equipment. The volume is divided into three sections; the first on all of the various volunteer and paid fire departments of Salt City, including 'Last Roll Call of the Old Mormon Fire Dept."; the middle section entitled "A Review of Salt Lake
City As It Is Today" including photos of the prominent merchants and mercantiles, bankers and banks, etc.
including Saltair; and the third section devoted to text and photos of the Salt Lake City Police Dept. 53pp
of period ads of mercantiles and many saloons, breweries and distilleries. Not in Flake/Draper.
$750
16. De Rupert, A.E.D. Californians and Mormons. New York: John Wurtele
Lovell, Publisher, 1881. First Edition. 166pp. Octavo [19 cm] Green cloth with decorative floral design in red with matching titles on front board. Gilt stamped title on
backstrip. Near fine. Subtle discoloring to front pastedown from bookplate removal.
Small stimple stamp at foot of title page and a small ink stamp on reverse at foot.
Travel narrative of the Western States in the late nineteenth century. Flake/Draper 2779.
$300
Account of the Kinderhook Plates
17. [Deseret News]. Deseret News; Being a Weekly Journal for the Diffusion of
General Intelligence among the Latter Day Saints, Volume VI. Great Salt Lake City,
UT: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, March 12, 1856 March 4, 1857. Volume 6. 416pp. Small Folio [39 cm] 3/4 leather with black boards.
Gilt bands on backstrip and gilt stamped titles as well. Very good. Extremities rubbed,
corners rubbed through. Hinges tight. Interanlly fine. Complete in 52 issues. Six page
index bound at front of volume.
Contains an account of the Kniderhook Plates with a full-page illustration. The Deseret News is Utah's
oldest continually published newspaper. Early issues like these are a window to the past, and are a lasting
record of the early settlement of the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding areas. These issues cover the struggles, as well as the mundane routine, of the Mormon settlers. Complete early volumes rarely appear in the
marketplace, and almost never in this condition.
"A paper that is worth printing is worth preserving; if worth preserving, it is worth binding; for this purpose we issue in pamphlet form; and if every subscriber shall preserve each copy of the 'News' and bind it
at the close of the volume, their children's children may read the doings of their fathers, which otherwise
might have been forgotten; ages to come".
$20,000
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Deseret News Flight Issue
18. [Deseret News]. Deseret News. Volume Eight, Number 10. Fillmore City,
Wednesday, May 12, 1858. Fillmore City, UT: Deseret News Press, 1858. Single folio
sheet folded in half to produce four pages. Near fine. Stab holes from former binding
at fold. Name in ink at fold on front page.
This is one of the flight issues. With the onset of the Utah War, Brigham Young had sent out two wagon
parties in separate directions under the cover of darkness, one contained the Deseret News printing press.
The Wagon train with the press made their way to Fillmore, Utah. Young knew the power of the written
word, and with keeping the Saints apprised of the situation. Young probably had the memories of the Phelps
press being destroyed in Missouri in mind. A handful of issues were printed in Fillmore before the press was
returned to Salt Lake City. Contents include excerpts from the History of Orson Hyde, and the History
of William E. McClellin.
$350
Scarce Run of Early Bound Volumes of The Deseret News
19. [Deseret News]. Deseret News, Volume XI. Great Salt Lake City: March 6,
1861 - June 25, 1862. Volume 11. 416pp. Small folio [39 cm] Contemporary 3/4 leather
over pebbled boards with gilt bands and title on backstrip. Extremities rubbed.
Corners rubbed through. Internally clean. Complete in 53 issues.
The Deseret News is Utah's oldest continually published newspaper. Early issues like these are a window
to the past, and are a lasting record of the early settlement of the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding areas.
These issues cover the struggles, as well as the mundane routine, of the Mormon settlers.
$6,500
20. [Deseret News]. Deseret News, Volume XIII. Great Salt Lake City: July 1,
1863 - September 21, 1864. Volume 13. 412pp. Small folio [39 cm] Contemporary 3/4
leather over pebbled boards with gilt bands and title on backstrip. Extremities
rubbed. Corners rubbed through. Internally clean. Complete in 52 issues. Includes
many remarks and discourses from LDS leaders, and extensive coverage of the
Civil War.
$6,500
Trial of John D. Lee
21. [Deseret News]. Deseret Weekly News, Volume XXV. Salt Lake City, UT:
February 2, 1876 - January 31, 1877. Volume 25. Folio [40 cm] Very good.
Contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled boards with gilt bands and title on backstrip.
Ex-lib. with very few marks (number at foot of spine & pocket attached to front
pastedown. Extremities rubbed, more so at bumped corners. Internally fine.
Complete in 53 issues. Flake 2811.d.
Includes extensive coverage of John D. Lee's trial for his involvement in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Also includes many discourses from LDS Church leaders as well as coverage of the General Conferences
for 1876.
$5,000
The Death of Brigham Young
22. [Deseret News]. Deseret Weekly News, Volume XXVI. [Salt Lake City, UT]:
February 7, 1877 - January 23, 1978. Volume 26. 816pp. Folio [40 cm] Contemporary
3/4 leather over marbled boards with gilt bands and title on backstrip. Very good.
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Ex-lib. with very few marks (number at foot of spine & pocket attached to front
pastedown. Extremities rubbed, more so at bumped corners. Internally fine.
Complete in 51 issues.
Includes 'Discourse by President Brigham Young, at Logan, Cache County, Monday morning, May 25,
1877, at the priesthood meeting, held for the purpose of organizing a stake of Zion' (June 6th issue)
Flake/Draper 10,058a.
Also contains a report of the execution of John D. Lee and "Lee Last Speech" which the editor's refer to as
"peculiar utterances of a guilty man on the confines of eternity.."
Also includes Brigham Young funerary issue of September 5, 1877. "The tidings of the death of President
Brigham Young, announced in last evenings Deseret News, were telegraphed to all parts of the Union. The
leading papers of the United States have each published an obituary notice, the cable has flashed the word
to Europe, and all parts of the civilized world have been stirred to their depths by the sad news" Includes
Young's obituary, funeral notice, and eulogies from Wilford Woodruff, Franklin Richards, Erastus Snow,
Daniel H. Wells, George Q. Cannon and Orson Hyde. Flake/Draper 2811.d.
$6,000
Second European D&C
23. Smith, Joseph. The Book of Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Selected from the Revelations of God. Liverpool:
Orson Pratt, 1849. Second European edition. 336pp. Duodecimo [16 cm] Attractively
rebound in full brown leather with title gilt stamped on backstrip. New endsheets and
pastedowns have been added. Fore edge of title page has been expertly repaired.
Handsome volume. Flake/Draper 2865. Crawley 442.
$7,500
Nauvoo D&C
24. Smith, Joseph. Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints; Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God. Nauvoo, IL:
Printed by John Taylor, 1846. Fourth American Edition. 448pp. Sextodecimo [15.5
cm] Original brown sheep that has been rebacked with a matching calf. Title and
bands gilt stamped on backstrip in the style of the original. Leaves have been professionally cleaned and volume has been resewn. Former owner inscription in ink on
front free endsheet that is heavily faded. Light staining from tape at hinges.
This volume was probably printed in February of 1846 after the great Mormon exodus from Illinois had
begun. The 1846 D&C was reprinted from the stereotype plates of the 1844 third edition, and would be the
last D&C printed in America until the 1876 Salt Lake edition. The whereabouts of these stereotype plates
is currently unknown. Early editions of the Doctrine and Covenants are scarce in any condition, and the
textblock of this volume is bright with no flaws. Flake/Draper 2864. Crawley 302.
$15,000
25. Ehat, Andrew F. & Lyndon W. Cook. Words of Joseph Smith: The
Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph. Provo,
UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University., 1980. First edition. 447pp.
Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip.
Index. Very good/Near fine. Minor discolorations to jacket. Discourses and teachings
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by the founder of Mormonism. The years covered are 1839 to 1844. Foreword by
Truman G. Madsen. Scarce.
$450
26. Esshom, Frank Ellwood. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah.
Comprising Photographs-Genealogies-Biographies. Pioneers are Those Men and
Women Who Came to Utah by Wagon, Hand Cart or Afoot, Between July 24, 1847,
and December 30, 1868, Before the Railroad. Prominent Men are Stake Presidents,
Ward Bishops, Governors, Members of the Bench, etc., Who came to Utah after the
coming of the Railroad. The Early History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, Publishers,
1913. First Edition, 1/2500. 1399pp. Large quarto [30 cm] Full leather with raised
bands and gilt stamped titles on backstrip. Very fine.
You could spend the rest of your days trying to find a copy of this monumental work in this pristine
condition. Hundreds of biographies of early settlers of the Territory. Profusely illustrated with portraits.
Through overuse and time this has become an increasingly more difficult item to find in nice condition.
Scarce title in such beautiful condition. Flake/Draper 3182
$2,000
John D. Lee Stereoview
27. Fennemore, James. John D. Lee at Jacob’s Pools. Salt Lake City: circa 1870s.
Stereo View, mounted albumen photograph attributed to Powell Expedition photographer, James Fennemore. Orange card stocks mount.
Portrait of notorious Mormon leader, John D. Lee, a participant in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the
only person tried for this atrocity; Lee was found guilty and put to death by firing squad at Mountain
Meadows, a few years after this photograph was taken. Photo depicts Lee standing in front of a crude log
cabin with a brush roof that was home to his wife Rachel. He is posing with several of his children and a
large dog, and several men lounging about the bleak yard, including two men off to the right, in uniform.
These men may be members of the Powell Expedition. Photographer is unknown but it is likely taken by
Powell Expedition photographer, James Fennemore, who lived in Beaver, Utah in the 1870s. A manuscript
caption on the back labeled the image "Capt. Lee/ Salt Lake". Some edge wear to stereo, else very good.
One of a series of very scarce images of Lee taken by Fennemore. A similar view can be found in W.L.
Rusho's book on Lees Ferry entitled Desert River Crossing.
$1,500
28. Flake, Chad. Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930: Books, Pamphlets,
Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century. Salt Lake
City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1978. First Edition, 1/25. 825pp. Quarto [29 cm]
Full leather with decorative gilt stamped borders. Raised bands. Gilt stamped devices
between bands. Author and title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip. Marbled
pastedowns and endsheets. Fine.
This is number two of a limitation of 25. Although not stated we believe this was produced by LDS
Collector's Library. This massive bibliography of Mormon imprints, a work first begun by the noted
historian Dale Morgan in the 1940s, contains over ten thousand entries on Mormonism's first century
including pro and anti Mormon books, pamphlets, broadsides, periodicals and printed ephemera. Set of the
definitive bibliography on Mormonism. Scallawagiana 100.
$500
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29. Ford, Thomas. History of Illinois, from its Commencement as a State in
1814 to 1847. Containing a Full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress,
and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and Other Important and
Interesting Events. New York: S.C. Griggs & Co., 1854. First edition, variant issue.
447pp. Octavo [20 cm] Full leather presentation binding. Blind stamped borders
with in gilt stamped rules to boards. Decorative stamped panels between raised
bands. Leather label on backstrip with gilt stamped titles. Marbled fore edge. Marbles
endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Binders tape at hinges. Contemporary name
in ink on front free endsheet. Light sporadic foxing throughout.
This volume is considered the best history of the early years of Illinois containing accounts of the Black
Hawk War, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots and other events. It also gives a context of the general sentiment
towards Mormons in Illinois and how this sentiment was fueled by economic and political conflict.
Governor Thomas Ford (1800-1850) began his term as Illinois Governor in 1842. Governor Ford and
Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith (1805-1844) had numerous confrontations over the next few years. In
1844, Ford accused Smith and the Mormons of destroying a local newspaper, The Nauvoo Expositor,
because it was publishing anti-Mormon sentiments. Ford demanded that Joseph Smith and his brother
Hyrum (1800-1844) surrender to authorities warning of further militia action if they did not. As a result
of Ford's threats, Joseph and Hyrum turned themselves in on June 25, 1844 in Carthage, Illinois. After
meeting with Governor Ford for several hours, Joseph Smith finally conceded to Ford that he was to blame
for destroying the newspaper. Anti-Mormon mobs had already begun to cause violence. In light of Joseph
Smith's confession, Governor Ford tried to control the mob violence, but failed and fled to Quincy, Illinois.
Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed by angry mobs at the Carthage Jail on June 27, 1844. Flake/Draper
3397. Howes F254. Scallawagiana. 48
$1500
30. Frances [Walker, Marietta]. With the Church In An Early Day.
Lamoni,IA: Lamoni Decauter Co., 1891. First edition. 391pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Green
cloth with gilt stamped title and decorations stamped in black on front board and
backstrip. Decorative endsheets and pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait of the author.
Near fine. Gentle rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's name and stamp to front
pastedown.
'Frances' was the pseudonym of Marietta Walker and her book was first issued serially in Autumn Leaves.
Much on early Church history, Including content on Kirtland, Ohio and the tragedy at Haun's Mill.
Although the book has had numerous editions, the 1891 first edition is uncommon. Flake/Draper 3592.
$750
The Murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
31. Fullmer, John S. Assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the
Prophet and the Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints. Also a Condensed History of the Expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo.
Liverpool: F.D. Richards, 1855. First edition. 40pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Rebound in 3/4
leather with marbled boards. Near fine.
The first section of this pamphlet contains the text from a letter John Fullmer wrote to James Gordon
Bennett at the New York Herald on October 30, 1844, discussing the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.
The second section of the book is Fullmer’s account of the Mormon War in Hancock County and recounts
the mob mentality towards the Saints of Nauvoo at this point in time. Flake/Draper 3488. Howes F409.
$2,500
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32. Gibbs, Josiah Francis. Mountain Meadows Massacre. [Salt Lake City, UT]:
Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company, 1910. Second edition. 59 pp. Octavo [22.5
cm] Tan wrappers. Illustrated. Very good. Light bumping and fading to extremities.
Minor nicking to corners.
Sensationalized account of the Massacre at Mountain Meadows. Cover photograph is of the "Graves of
One Hundred and Thirty Emigrants - Victims of Mormon Blood Atonement at Mountain Meadows,
September 16th, 1857". Flake/Draper 3553
$200
Utah Exploration Expedition
33. Gove, Jesse Augustus. Utah Expedition, 1857-1858: Letters of Capt. Jesse A.
Gove, 10th Inf., U.S.A., of Concord, N.H., to Mrs. Gove, and special correspondence
of the New York Herald. Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1928.
Limited edition. 1/50 on large paper. 442 pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 green cloth with
gray paper covered boards and matching label on backstrip. Illustrated. Near fine.
Lower corners bumped. Edited by Otis G. Hammond. New Hampshire Historical
Society Collections, Volume 12.
Letters of Capt. Gove to his wife describing the life of a soldier on the frontier surrounded by a hostile population. Sometimes mundane, sometimes enlightening. Gove was in Utah at the outbreak of the Civil War,
where he would later lose his life in battle at Gaines' Mills, Virginia as a member of the 22nd Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Variant of Flake/Draper 3562. Scallawagiana 87.
$1,000
34. Gove, Jesse Augustus. Utah Expedition 1857-1858: Letters of Capt. Jesse A.
Gove, 10th Inf., U.S.A., of Concord, N.H., to Mrs. Gove, and special correspondence
of the New York Herald. Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society,
1928.First Edition. 442pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black cloth with gilt rules and title on
backstrip. Near fine. Subtle fading to backstrip. Some subtle rubbing to boards.
Edited by Otis G. Hammond. New Hampshire Historical Society Collections, Volume 12. A few black
and white illustrations including a facsimile of the Mormon Declaration of Martial Law, a facsimile of an
illustration showing Fort Bridger, and an illustration showing the camp at Fort Bridger. Letters of Capt.
Gove to his wife describing the life of a soldier on the frontier surrounded by a hostile population.
Sometimes mundane, sometimes enlightening. Flake/Draper 3652. Kovacich 1103. Howes G279.
$350
35. Grant, Jedediah Morgan. Three Letters to the New York Herald, from
J.M. Grant of Utah. [New York]: 1852. 64pp. Octavo [21 cm] Missing original
wrappers otherwise near fine.
A series of letters believed to be co-authored by Thomas Kane. These letters were penned to refute charges
of polygamy, theocracy and other nefarious doings, then being made by territory judges Lemuel Brandebury
and Perry Brocchus, and territory secretary Broughton Harris to President Fillmore. The first letter was
printed in The New York Herald on March 9, 1852. When the Herald declined to print any other letters
in their entirety, Grant collected the printed letter along with two others, and had them bound in a single
volume.
The letters are penned with a scathing and humorous air. The topic of Polygamy was tip-toed around, and
when mentioned was flatly denied. Scarce. Mormon Fifty 38. Crawley 693. Flake/Draper 3684.
$1,500
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Scarce Territorial Directory - Ogden, Utah
36. Haefeli, Leo. Directory of Ogden City and Weber County, 1883.
Compiled and Published by Leo Haefeli and Frank J. Cannon. Ogden City, Utah:
Ogden Herald Publishing Company, Printers, 1883. 214pp. Octavo [21cm] Blue cloth
spine with blue paper boards printed with advertising. Minor overall discoloring and
wear. Front inner hinge has begun to crack. Wetstamp of a previous owner to the
front cover and front pastedown. Internally fine.
Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To the Fourth Ward, Ogden, Y.M.M. I. A. by Leo Haefeli."
Advertisements before and after the main text. Flake/Draper 3772.
$2,500
Hancock County Archive
37. [Hancock County]. An Archive of Court Documents from the
Mormon Period in Hancock County, and Schuyler County, Illinois
(1840-1845). The archive consists of fourteen original manuscriptdocuments dated
between 1840-1845 and includes subpoena, affidavits, bonds and summons.
Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and his brothers were regularly involved in legal affairs, beginning in New York
in 1826 when Joseph Smith was tried and convicted of "glass looking." The names of Joseph Smith and his
brothers also turn up in court records in Ohio and in Illinois. This archive lists some of the people involved
at one time or another with legal action against the Smiths.
There is a William Smith (1811-1893) mentioned in this archive of records, and this is likely the brother of
Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith. William Smith brought a case against Harman and Claiborne Wilson in
1841. In the July 1, 1843 issue of Times & Seasons, there is mention of Harman Wilson (1815-1851) who
attempted to have Joseph Smith arrested. Wilson was a merchant by trade and served as the Sheriff of
Carthage at this time.
The Circuit Court in Carthage, Illinois was held twice a year. According to the book ‘Carthage
Conspiracy: The Trail of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith’, the two week trial sessions:
"were better than a traveling circus. By wagon, on horseback, or on foot, the farmers of Hancock County
gathered at the county seat for court week… Though its 22,559 inhabitants made Hancock the most populous county in Illinois in 1845, Carthage, the county seat, had only a few hundred inhabitants - except during court week. Then it was impossible to find sleeping space on a floor." [Oaks, Dallin H. and Marvin S.
Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. (Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 1979) p.1]
$9,500 for the lot
38. Hatch, Nelle Spilsbury. Colonia Juarez: An Intimate Account of a
Mormon Village. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1954. First Edition.
290pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and
backstrip. Near fine with faint rubbing to corners of boards. Front hinge a little shaky.
Ex-libris 'The Improvement Era' with a small ink stamp at the foot of the front free
endsheet, and the half-title. Illustrated with black and white photos, and a fold-out
map at rear of volume.
History of the Mormon outpost in Northern Mexico. Though founded before the official end of LDS
Church-sanctioned polygamy. Colonia Juarez's population exploded in the late nineteenth century due to
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polygamists fleeing the United States. Though still a Mormon outpost, its population has slowly declined
over the last century.
$200
Uncommon Mormon Offshoot Newspaper
39. Hedrick, Granville. Truth Teller: Temple Lot Newspaper. Bloomington,
IL: August, 1864 - December, 1868. Loose odd issues. Issues include: Vol. 1, No. 2
[17]-32 pp. - Vol.1, No. 8 [113]-128 pp. - Vol. 1, No. 9 [129]-144 pp. - Vol. 1, No. 10
(two issues) [145]-160 pp. - Vol.1, No. 11 [161]-176 pp. Vol. 2, No. 1 [1]-16pp. - Vol.2,
No. 2 [17]-32 pp. Octavo [23 cm] All volumes very good or better. Volume 1, Number
2 is bumped and chipped at the extremities with minor losses. Some issues show light,
sporadic foxing.
Granville Hedrick was the first Prophet of the Church of Christ on the Temple Lot, and 'The Truth
Teller' was the official newspaper of this small sect. Before Hedrick began editing and publishing this small
publication he had a revelation to move with a small band of followers back to Independence, Missouri to
regain control of the Temple Lot that was dedicated by Joseph Smith.
The contents of this small paper vary, from his disgust with the "Brighamites" (Salt Lake Mormons) over
proxy ( for the dead) marriages and baptisms - "While others are getting married by Proxy to as many dead
women as their fancies" to polygamy "...marching down into the very jaws of that hell-bound doctrine of
polygamy", and the cause of Civil War "...that the great calamity of this great war is the chastening hand
of an offended and just god." Terribly scarce newspaper from an early and surviving, offshoot of the
Mormon faith. Not listed in Flake, or in Morgan III.
$2500
Mormon Folk Songs on Vinyl
40. Hilton, L.M. Mormon Folk Songs, Sung by L.M. Hilton. New York:
Folkway Records & Service Corporation, 1952. 33 1/3 rpm record in very clean condition with no scuffs or scratches. Housed in original paper sleeve within printed cardboard sleeve. Both sleeves in near fine condition. "903" in marker on front and rear
panel. Ownership stamp in ink on front and rear panel. Includes twelve page lyric
booklet with an introduction and notes by Willard Rhodes. Songs included are: Hand
Cart Song, Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy, The Sago Lily, Sea Gulls and Crickets,
Echo Canyon Song, Zack the Mormon Engineer, Oh Babylon Oh Babylon!, Come
Come Ye Saints, Hard Times Come Again No More, Gather Round the Camp Fire
Brethren, Have Courage My Boy to Say No, What's the Use of Repining.
$1,100
The First Utah Art Book
41. Horne, Alice Merrill. Devotees and Their Shrines: A Hand Book of
Utah Art. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, 1914. First Edition. 158pp. Octavo [24
cm] Light blue cloth with gilt stamped title on front board. Near fine. Light rubbing
to corners.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. The first book published on Utah artists, architecture
and applied arts. Includes the big ten of Utah artists: James Harwood, Lee Greene Richards, Mahonri
Young, Cyrus Dallin, H.L.A. Culmer, George Ottinger, Alfred Lambourne, Daniel Weggeland, C.C.A.
Christensen and John Hafen. Much on the history of early Utah art, artists and schools.
Flake/Draper 4089 (8134)
$200
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The First Anti-Mormon Book
42. Howe, Eber Dudley. History of Mormonism: or, a Faithful Account
of that Singular Imposition and Delusion, with Sketches of the
Characters of its Propagators, to which are Added Inquiries into
the Probability that the Historical Part of the Golden Bible was
Written by one Solomon Spalding, and by Him Intended to Have Been
Published as a Romance. Plainsville, OH: 1840. 290 pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]
Original orange cloth that has been professionally rebacked by George Bayntun with
original label from backstrip laid over. Housed in a red cloth clamshell that has leather
label. Hinges have also been repaired by Bayntun.
Howe was a prominent newspaper man, and a vocal critic of the fledgling Mormon faith who called its
believers "victims of delusion". The book claims the Book of Mormon to be a work of fiction and imagination and written more than twenty years ago, in Salem, Ashtabula County, Ohio, by Solomon Spalding,
Esq. These claims of plagiarism would later be repeated. Scathing early critique of Mormonism by
Howe that quite scarce.
$15,000
First Salt Lake Hymnal
43. [Hymnal]. Sacred Hymns and Spirtual Songs for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon, 1871. First Salt
Lake Hymnal in its second state. 432pp. Vicesimoquarto (24mo) [13 cm] Full leather
with decorative blind stamping to boards and title gilt on backstrip. Very good.
"Springville Choir" gilt stamped on front board, corners bumped with light rubbing,
extremities of pastedowns and endsheets discolored, dates in ink on front pastedown,
some markings in colored pencil on page 376. Attractive copy of this L.D.S Hymnal.
Flake/Draper 1772a.
$3,000
44. [Hymnal] Deseret Sunday School Union Music Book, Containing A
Large Collection of Choice Pieces For The Use Of Sunday Schools. Salt Lake City,
UT: Deseret Sunday School Union, at the Juvenile Instructor Office, 1884. 100pp.
Oblong duodecimo [16 cm] 1/4 black calf over black boards with "S.S. Union Music"
gilt stamped on front board. Very good. Light rubbing to extremities, more so at corners. Minor chipping to foot of title page, due to the leaf being bound in slightly
askew. Tape "repair" to verso of title page. Text block shows light overall wear.
Flake/Draper 1609.
$500
45. [Hymnal]. Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Liverpool: Printed and Published by George Teasdale,
1890. 20th edition. 448pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [13 cm] Black, striated leather
with gilt bands and title on backstrip. Very good. Gentle rubbing to extremities of
boards. Light discoloring to gutter of title page. Small ink stamp on front pastedown.
Flake/Draper 1780.
$700
46. [Hymnal]. Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Company printers and
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publishers, 1891. 20th edition. 464pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [12 cm] Limp leather
yapp binding with raised bands and gilt stamped title on backstrip. Very good. Some
minor rubbing to extremities and bands. Slight discoloring to extremities of
pastedowns and endsheets. Rear pastedown has crease down center. Flake/Draper
1781 (12693)
$600
47. [Hymnal]. Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon & Sons Company,
Printers - Publishers, 1899. 23rd edition. 464pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [12 cm] Full
leather with decorative gilt stamping to boards and backstrip. Full leather with decorative blind stamping to front and rear board. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Blind
stamped bands to backstrip. Floral endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Head of
backstrip chipped with a small loss of leather that is laid in. corners bumped and
rubbed. Page 18/19 deatched and laid in. Ink stamp on verso of front free endsheet,
and once again very faint on front pastedown. Flake/Draper 1899.
$400
Mandarin Chinese Hymnal
48. [Hymnal (Mandarin)]. Selected Hymns Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints Mandarin Romanization. [Salt Lake City, UT]: [Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], [1970]. Second enlarged edition. 121pp. Octavo
[20 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped title to front board. Very good. Light discoloring to upper right corner of front board. Same name in ink on front and rear free endsheet. Chinese characters on front and rear pastedown. Jacobs shows one known
institutional copy. Jacobs 750.H. (13065)
$350
Salt Flats Racing Legend
49. Jenkins, Ab & Wendell J. Ashton. Salt of the Earth. Salt Lake City, UT:
Deseret News Press, 1939. First Edition. 78 pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark red cloth with
blind stamped borders to boards, and gilt stamped title on front board. Near fine.
Small remnants of glued-in portrait at head of front free endsheet.
Personal history of the Bonneville Salt Flats racing legend. Jenkins broke numerous land speed records, and
drove the "Mormon Meteor" into history. Illustrated with photographs. Includes an index.
$250
Nauvoo Horse Thief & Murderer
50. Jenks, Ira C. Trial of David F. Mayberry, for the Murder of Andrew
Alger; before the Rock Co. Circuit Court--Judge Doolittle presiding--July 10th &
11th, 1855. Containing the Correct Account of His Death by a Mob. Janesville,
Wisconsin: Baker, Burnett & Hall, 1855. First edition. 46pp. Octavo [21 cm] Original
wraps. Near fine.
This pamphlet recounts one of the most notorious crimes in the history of Rock County, Wisconsin. The
introductory paragraphs tell of David F. Mayberry‘s life as an early member of the LDS Church living in
Nauvoo with his parents, siblings and wife. After the murder of Joseph Smith, Mayberry ended up joining
a gang of horse thieves and was sent to prison in Alton, Illinois for seven years. His mother, father, brothers and wife immigrated to Utah with the Brigham Young Company in 1848. The names of his parents
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John and Mary Mayberry, and those of his brothers, Gabriel and Thomas Mayberry are listed in the 1850
Utah census. After his release from prison in 1854, David Mayberry moved to Rockford County,
Wisconsin. In June of 1855, Mayberry learned that a man named Andrew Alger had sold a large amount
of lumber at Rockford. After Alger had been paid, Mayberry made his acquaintance and decided to travel
with him. Along the way, Mayberry purchased a hatchet which he used to brutally murder Alger and rob
him.
The next day, Mayberry showed a friend the money he had stolen and told his friend he had murdered to
get it. Mayberry was promptly arrested and a jury trial was held. When sentenced, Mayberry stated: "I
know the evidence is strong against me, but I am innocent of the murder." ["Sunday 75th Anniversary of
Alger Murder That Led to Lynching of Mayberry." Janesville Daily Gazette, June 14, 1930. From a copy
held at The Wisconsin Historical Society.] As Mayberry was led from the courthouse after sentencing, an
angry mob seized him and promptly hanged him from the nearest tree. This stands as the only case of a mob
lynching in the history of Rock County, Wisconsin. It may also be the earliest case in which an individual
with ties to the Mormon Church in Nauvoo committed a heinous murder.
$3,500
51. Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A
Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of the copies of these editions were lost to
wter or fire damage in the Sam Weller fire of 1973. Salt Lake City: Western Epics,
1971. Reprint. Four Volume Set. 828, 827, 828, and 824pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue
cloth spines and boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Just the slightest rub at the
tips of each of the corners. Light scuff mark on the lower edge of the spine of volume
II. Volume I has a slight red pen mark on the title page. Illustrated with photographs.
No dust jackets as issued. A beautiful set.
$600
52. Johnson, Annie R. Heartbeats of Colonia Diaz. Mesa, AZ: Published by
the author, 1972. First edition. 494pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with red printed
titles. Very good. Minor bumping to corners. Includes appendices and index. Black &
white photographs throughout. A comprehensive history of the Mormon colony in
Mexico and its destruction in the Mexican revolution.
$150
53. Jones, Daniel Webster. Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling
narrative of the author's experiences among the natives. Salt Lake City, UT: Juvenile
Instructor Office, 1890. First edition. 400pp. Octavo [23 cm] Dark blue cloth binding with blind stamped and gilt title on cover and backstrip. Near fine. Gentle rubbing to corners. Jones' adventures with the Indian Wars, the Mexican War
and with the Mormon Batallion. Flake/Draper 4484. Howes J202.
$350
54. Jones, Daniel Webster. Forty Years Among the Indians. Salt Lake City,
UT: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890. First edition. 400pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full
leather with gilt title to the front board and backstrip and decorative blindstamping.
Decorative end sheets and pastedowns. Very good plus. Minor wear to the extremities, small losses to the head and foot of the backstrip, bookseller’s label on the lower
edge of the front pastedown. Internally clean.
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An attractive leather-bound copy. Jones recounts his travels throughout the southwestern Unites States
including events from the Mexican War as well as his encounters with Native Americans and the
Mormons. Flake/Draper 4484. Howes J202.
$600
Friend of the Mormons
55. Kane, Thomas Leiper. Mormons: A Discourse Delivered Before the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: March 26, 1850. Philadelphia, PA:
King & Baird, Printers, 1850. 84pp. Octavo [23 cm] Original printed wrappers. Fine.
'Friend of the Mormons', Thomas Kane was an outspoken advocate for the Mormons. Kane first came into
contact with followers of the LDS faith at a conference in Philadelphia in 1846. Kane helped the Mormons
with the westward migration requesting aide from the Federal Government and helping to secure permission to occupy Pottawattamie and Omaha Indian lands along the Missouri. He also helped to establish the
Mormon Battalion with Captain James Little.
After the Saints' arrival in the Utah wilderness, Kane continued to push for the LDS faithful's interests
and was asked by President Fillmore to be the territorial governor. Kane refused and nominated Brigham
Young. He helped to broker peace between the Federal Government and the Mormons in the 'Utah War'.
Throughout the latter nineteenth century, Kane pushed for Utah statehood, even visiting several times. On
one of these trips with his family his wife penned a series of letters that was later published as 'Twelve
Mormon homes'.
On Brigham Young's death, Kane returned once again to offer his condolences, and to be the executor of
Young's estate. An important scarce work that is rarely offered for sale in such nice condition. Wagner
Camp 185:1. Streeter 2289. Howes K8. Scallawagiana 39. Flake/Draper 4523.
$1,500
Uncommon John D. Lee Title
56. Kelly, Charles (Ed.). Journals of John D. Lee, 1846-7 and 1859. Salt Lake
City, UT: Privately printed for Rolla Bishop Watt by Western Printing Company,
1938. First edition, 1/250. 294 pp. Quarto [28 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles
on front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Small red stain on front panel of
jacket. Tipped in frontispiece from page six missing with remanants of glue near foot
and tail. Otherwise a sharp copy of this scarce title.
Inscribed by the editor to fellow historian C.M. Drury. This copy is out of series, and the limitation page
states this copy to be an exchange copy. Professional curmudgeon, Charles Kelly was the first to wade into
the murky water of John D. Lee. Kelly acquired the diaries form the Lee family and from Rolla Watt who
was nephew of W.W. Bishop, the Nevada lawyer who represented Lee at trial. For all of Kelly's spite, he
was surpassingly fair to Lee and paved the way for other historians, most notably Juanita Brooks. Volume
was printed by Kelly's Western Printing. An incredibly scarce title.
$1,500
57. Kelly, Charles (Ed.). Journals of John D. Lee, 1846-7 and 1859. Salt Lake
City, UT: Privately printed for Rolla Bishop Watt by Western Printing Company,
1938. First edition, #84/250. 294 pp. Quarto [28 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped
titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A few small faint discolorations to the jacket. The frontis portrait is present, but as usual has come unglued,
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and is simply laid in. Former owners name dicreetly blind stamped, and quite small,
at the head of the front free endsheet and the title page.
$1,500
One of Five Copies Produced
58. Knecht, William L. & Peter L. Crawley. History of Brigham Young, 18471867. Berkeley, CA: MassCal Associates, 1964. First edition, 1/5. 407pp. Octavo [23.5
cm] Full leather with gilt stamped title and rules on backstrip. Index. Near fine.
This is 1 of 5 copies bound in full leather. Typed letter from William L. Knecht on personal letterhead
signed and laid in. The letter includes the line "..I am sure that this will be a collector's item.." He was
correct. Very scarce.
$3,500
A Love Song for the Great Salt Lake
59. Lambourne, Alfred. Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead. Salt
Lake City, UT: Deseret News Publishers, 1909. First Edition. 256pp. Large octavo [25
cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. Very good plus.
Light bumping and rubbing to corners. Small gouge at center of backstrip. Former
owner's inscription in ink on front free endsheet from year of publication.
Writer and painter Alfred Lambourne's opus on the Great Salt Lake. The book reflects the year he
spent living alone in a self-built cabin on Gunnison Island in the Great Salt Lake. Illustrated with seven
illustrations by his fellow artist, James T. Harwood.
This is the author's final version of the work, having previously issued the book as newspaper
and magazine articles, as a pamphlet, and in a previous smaller book form in 1902. The original edition is
from 1895.
$100
Inscribed by George Albert Smith
60. Little, James Amassa. Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience,
as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer. Disclosing Interpositions
of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes. Fifth
Book of the Faith-Promoting Series designed for the Instruction and Encouragement
of Young Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, 1909. Second edition.
151pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Original red cloth with gilt stamped title to front cover.
Near fine. Light rubbing to corners, name small in ink at head of front pastedown.
Warmly inscribed by George Albert Smith to Hal W. Smith. Inscription reads"To Hal W. Smith and
Family. With best wishes for a joyous year 1934. George Albert and Family. January 1934." Howes L383.
Flake/Draper 4952.
$250
61. [MacDonald, Alexander Findlay]. Mexican Colonies: Valuable Information
to Intending Settlers and Tourists. [Salt Lake City, UT]: [Deseret News], September
11, 1890. [3pp.] 28 cm by 43 cm Bi-fold. Fine.
Uncommon LDS piece. This is the second state of this work printed to coincide with Woodruff's '1890
Manifesto' , (September 23, 1890) which officially ended LDS sanctioned polygamy. The first issue of this
was a letter to the Deseret News. The 1890 Manifesto was written in response to the Federal Government's
anti-polygamy policies, and most especially the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887. Many polygamists decided to
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remove themselves from the grasp of the Federal Government by moving to Mexico, where they believed
(erroneously) polygamy was legal. This guide was written to familiarize the fleeing Saints with their new
locale. Flake locates only three copies. Flake/Draper 5133a
$600
Uncommon Utah History
62. Manly & Litteral. Utah: Her Cities, Towns and Resources. Chicago:
Manly & Litteral, printed by W.B. Conkey Company, 1891-2. First Edition. 228pp.
Quarto [30 cm] Full color illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Slight wear at corners of
wrappers.
A sharp copy of this hard to find work that offers a glimpse of life in late nineteenth century Utah. Includes
histories of many turn of the century businesses, as well as many biographies of the business leaders of the
day and the towns they lived and worked in. The beautiful cover illustration is by H.L.A. Culmer (see
cover of this catalogue). Interestingly enough, the authors tried with some success to focus on nonMormons. This is the nicest copy of this scarce work that we have ever encountered. Flake/Draper 5260
$400
1831, Account of the Mormons
63. Marks, David. Life of David Marks, to the 26th year of his age. Including the
Particulars of His Conversion, Call to the Ministry, and Labours in Itinerant
Preaching for Nearly Eleven Years. Limerick, ME: Printed at the Office of the
Morning Star, 1831. First Edition. 396pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Original full leather
with gilt bands on backstrip and leather label on backstrip. Fine. Contemporary name
in ink on front free endsheet. The nicest copy we have seen.
Early Mormon content describing David Marks visit to the Whitmer family farm in 1830, and his evaluation of the Book of Mormon and its Witnesses. David Whitmer was one of the "Three Witnesses". This
is one of the earliest published description of the Mormons and Mormonism. Wonderful source material
detailing life in the 'Burned Over District' and surrounding areas. Flake/Draper 5277. Howes M292.
$5000
64. McMurtrie, Douglas C. Beginnings of Printing in Utah, with a
Bibliography of the Issues of the Utah Press, 1849-1860. Chicago, IL: John Calhoun
Club, 1931. 1/160, out of series. 91pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with brown and
tan decorative cloth boards in matching slipcase. Near fine. Original printing of this
very hard to find work that is a classic. Scarce.
$1500
65. McMurtrie, Douglas C. General Epistle from the Council of the
Twelve Apostles, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Abroad,
Dispersed Throughout the Earth. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935. 1/120. [32pp]
Octavo [24 cm] Tan linen with brown paper label on front board. Fine. Subtle sunning to backstrip.
This epistle marks the beginning of Mormonism in Utah. The epistle recounts the troubles in Nauvoo, and
the subsequent evacuation. It also announces the establishment of the LDS headquarters in the Great Salt
Lake Valley. The epistle also urges Saints converging upon the Great Basin to bring whatever they may to
help the settlement flourish.
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Subtitle on title page is: Dated: Winter Quarters, Nebraska December 23, 1847, and constituting the earliest known example of printing in the present state of Nebraska by Douglas C. McMurtie containing a
complete facsimile of the original edition of the epistle. Scarce.
$500
66. McMurtrie, Douglas C. Notes on Early Printing Outside of Salt Lake
City. Los Angeles: Press of the Frank Wiggins Trade School, 1938. 9pp. Octavo [23
cm] Tan wrappers with printed label on front panel. Near fine.
Short work from the noted bibliographer. Includes two reproduced pages from the "Farmer's Oracle", a
periodical published in Spring Lake Villa in Utah County
$150
67. Merrill, Melvin Clarence. Utah Pioneer and Apostle Marriner Wood
Merrill and His Family. 1937. First Edition. 527pp. Octavo [22 cm] Publisher's
maroon grained buckram with gilt title on front board and backstrip. Gilt bands at
head and foot of backstrip. Near fine. Illustrated with black and white photographs
throughout.
Warmly inscribed by the author' son, Apostle Joseph F. Merrill. Inscription reads: " To - Elder Jonathan
G. Kimball - with - The Compliments of Jos. F. Merrill - Aug. 24, 1937". Biography and family history of
one of the pioneering families of the Cache Valley. Merrill was the first president of the Logan Temple, and
was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Scarce.
$500
68. Moffat, Riley Moore. Printed Maps of Utah to 1900: An Annotated
Cartobibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Western Association of Map Libraries, 1981.
First Edition. 176pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Color illustrated white wrappers. Fine.
Includes an index and a bibliography.
Though probably not as well known as the Wheat's Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West, this is an incredibly useful bibliography (our store copy gets a lot of use). A must for the library of the Western Americana
collector, and the cartographer alike.
$100
Historic Run of LDS Periodicals
69. [Mormon Periodicals]. Early Mormon Newspapers Contributed to the
Centennial Newspaper Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876. Six issues of Times and
Seasons are bound collectively in contemporary half leather binding over marbled
boards. The six issues include: Vol. 2, no. 13--May 1, 1841; Vol. 2, no. 14--May 15, 1841;
Vol. 2, no. 15--June 1, 1841; Vol. 2, no. 19--Aug. 2, 1841; Vol. 2, no. 20--Aug. 16, 1841;
Vol. IV, no. 20-- Sept. 1, 1843. The front free endsheet is inscribed: "These papers
were contributed to the Exhibition by Mrs. A.L. Higley of Oxford, Ill., and were presented to me, Dec. 3, 1901, by Mr. George P. Rowell of Irvington, N.Y. [signed]
Frederic Rowland Marvin." Seven separate unbound issues of The Seer are included:
Vol. I, no. 4--April 1853; Vol I, no. 5--May 1853; Vol. I, no. 6--June 1853; Vol. I, no. 7-July 1853; Vol. I, no. 8--August 1853; Vol. II, no. 1--January 1854; Vol. II, no. 3-March 1854. The January 1854 and the March 1854 issues of the Seer show some wear
and edge tears. The pages of both issues have been crudely sewn together with black
thread. In the January 1854 issue, pages 207-210 are missing. Overall the newspapers
are in good to very good condition.
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As the inscription on the front free endsheet indicates, this collection of newspapers was exhibited at the
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. As part of the overall event, a special exhibit of newspapers
were on display. The exhibit included examples of every published American newspaper up to this point in
time. The Centennial Newspaper Exhibition was organized by George P. Rowell, a writer and advertising
agency owner. Rowell began publishing the American Newspaper Directories starting in 1869 that included circulation figures for U.S. and Canadian newspapers. He also published the Centennial Newspaper
Exhibition of 1876: A Complete List of American Newspapers. These Seer issues are the scarcer
Washington issues. For the lot, 13 scarce early LDS periodicals: 6 Times & Seasons & 7 The Seer.
$3,500
Missouri Mormon War Court Testimony
70. [Mormon War]. Document Showing, The testimony given before
the judge of the fifth judicial circuit of the State of Missouri, on
the trial of Joseph Smith, jr., and others, for high treason, and other
crimes against that State. February 15, 1841. [Washington]: [Blair & Rives,
Printers], [1841]. Senate. 26th Congress. Second Session. Senate Document Number
189. Serial Set 378. 47pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Sew holes at spine. Fine.
Copy of the testimony given before Judge Austin King in Richmond, Missouri in November, 1838. At the
conclusion of the Mormon War, Joseph Smith and other high ranking Mormons were tried for treason and
their followers were forced to leave the state of Missouri under threat of extermination from Governor
Boggs.
After fleeing east and settling in Quincy, Illinois (and later Nauvoo), the Saints began seeking redresses
from the government over lost property and lives. In reaction to these developments, Senator Linn of
Missouri requested the U.S. Senate reprint the testimony of Smith's trial. The contents of this small volume describe the Mormon settlers as fanatics and un-American, and it also relates the beginnings of the
"Daughters of Zion", who would later be called Danites. "The covenant taken by all the Danite band was
as follows, to wit: They declared, holding up their right hands, 'In the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
I do solemnly obligate myself ever to conceal, and never to reveal, the secret purposes of this society called
the Daughters of Zion. Should I ever do the same, I hold my life as forfeiture."
This printing appeared a full month earlier than the Boonslick Democrat printing (Flake 5427). Scarce.
Fales 4. Flake/Draper 5428
$2,000
Brigham Young in Wax
71. [Mormon Wax Museum]. Catalogue. Dr. Bassett's Museum of
Anatomy. Chicago: [c.1879]. 13, 5, [7]pp. Large duodecimo [20 cm] Original blue
printed wrappers. Portrait of Brigham Young on rear panel. Near fine. Minor chipping to head of rear panel with some small losses.
Last seven pages of pamphlet entitled "The Salt Lake Mormons: Life-Like Figures in Wax, Representing
Brigham Young, Surrounded by His Harem of Twenty Wives. John D. Lee, The Leader of the Mountain
Meadow Murderers, as he Appeared on the Day of His Execution. The Celebrated Danite Chiefs, In Full
Costume, Such as Worn by them at Salt Lake City".
Contents that follow are a short history of the Mormons and there "Charlatan" founder Joseph Smith.
Following are twenty-four short scandalous and lurid biographical sketches for Brigham Young and
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twenty of his wives as well as John D. Lee, Porter Rockwell and Bill Hickman. Unrecorded variant of
Flake/Draper 2853. Flake/Draper locates a single copy of the longer work. Scarce.
$2,500
72. Morris, Joseph. "Spirit Prevails". Containing the Revelations, Articles and
Letters. San Francisco, CA: Geo. S. Dove & Company, 1886. First edition. 684pp.
Octavo [23.5 cm] Full leather with raised bands and leather labels on backstrip. Near
Fine. Volume rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Contemporary bookplate on
front pastedown.
This volume contains the written works of Joseph Morris, founder of the Morrisites (an LDS offshoot).
Morris left the LDS Church after he started having revelations that placed him at odds with LDS Church
leadership. He left with about 500 followers. Tension between the Morrisites and their Mormon neighbors
slowly escalated.
The conflict escalated when Deputy Marshall Robert T. Burton, and a posse of two-hundred men set out
to arrest Morris and other Morrisite church leaders. The "Morrisite War" broke out when Burton ordered
warning shots fired. The Morrisites returned fire,and after three days of siege and many dead (including
Morris, and several of his wives), the Morrisite war and the Morrisite movement was over. Flake/Draper
5575. Scallawagiana 75.
$3,000
Mountain Meadows Collection
73. [Mountain Meadows Massacre]. Aurora of the Valley. Bradford, VT: 1859.
Newspaper. Four Issues. Folio. For Saturdays of July 9, July 16, September 10 and
November 12, 1859 [XII: 28, 29, 37, 46] Complete issues all very good or better.
Some twenty-five residents of Springville, Utah Territory, wish to leave, but have been threatened by the
Mormons: "Some of them had been dragged out of their beds at night, and with bowie knives at their
breasts, threatened if they dared expose the doings of the Mormon leaders. . . . Atrocities too horrible to be
related, and which seemed to shock the brute savages themselves, are related by persons who claim to have
been compelled to join in that massacre." (July 16 issue)
The September 10 issue reports striking comments on the subject by Horace Greeley, who assumes that
most Mormons are honorable, but that there are some among them, including some of the leaders, who are
in full knowledge of their guilt, and "who know that Gentiles and apostates have been killed for the church's
and for Christ's sake, and who firmly believe that they ought to have been." Greeley admits that were he
so deluded as the Saints, to believe that all who oppose them are mortal enemies, then he, too, might have
been led to acts of violence.
$200
74. [Mountain Meadows Massacre]. The Christian Advocate. New York:
December 19, 1867. Volume XLII, Number 51. [401]-408pp. Folio. Complete issue.
Near fine. Minor wear to extremities.
Contains a lengthy letter titled "Letter from Nevada" by "Americus", on the Mountain Meadows
Massacre. Lurid and biased account printed ten years after the terrible event. "Brigham Young issued his
order to his "Destroying Angels." The young man who at that time did that sort of work for Brigham carried the dispatch to have the deed done. The "Destroying Angels," disguised as Indians, made the attack; the
party fortified, and were too much for them. In two days the Mormons returned in citizens' dress and asked
a truce. Two young ladies, dressed in white, came out to receive their message. .. . the Mormons . . . took the
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men prisoners to one canyon and butchered them, and the women to another canyon, ravished and then
slaughtered them. . . . "
$300
75. [Mountain Meadows Massacre]. The Christian Advocate. October 3,
1967. Volume XLII, Number 40. [313]-320pp. Folio. Complete Issue. Very good.
Minor separating to backfold where issue has been removed from binding.
Lengthy original article serves as the lead editorial of the second page. Article entitled: "The Mormons".
The article is a short history and includes two inches devoted to the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
". . . in the disguise of Indians, they treacherously slaughtered more than a hundred men, women, and children. The plunder which was taken consisted of forty wagons, eight hundred head of cattle, and sixty horses and mules, etc., together with a number of young children. Thirty thousand dollars' worth of this booty
was divided among the Church dignitaries, and the children were sold. . . ."
$125
76. [Mountain Meadows Massacre]. Dollar Weekly Mirror. Manchester,
NH. Newspaper. Folio. Four pages. Complete issue. Fairly brittle with some minor
chipping at extremities wit small losses.
Column three of page three includes the gem, "From Salt Lake - Seventeen Children Found". The article
includes the sentence: "17 white children who were taken by the Indian [sic] at the massacre, two years ago
at Mountain Meadows, when 140 emigrants were murdered, have been recovered."
$50
77. [Mountain Meadows Massacre]. Geauga Republican. Chardon, OH:
1875. Newspaper. Four consecutive issues. Folio. Eight pages each. All issues complete
and in very good condition. Some splitting at back folds.
Each issue has a paragraph article on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Each article appears on the second page.
". . . Philip K. Smith, Mormon, testified. . . . He implicates Lee, Dame, Higbee and other Mormons, and
directly accuses them of taking an active part, with himself, in the perpetration of the outrages and murders. . . . on being informed of what had been done Brigham Young cautioned them not to talk about it
among themselves. [August 4 issue]"
"In the Mountain Meadows massacre trial on the 2d the depositions of Brigham Young and Geo. A. Smith
were offered and ruled out. They state, in substance, that neither party issued any instructions in regard to
the Arkansas emigrant train; that the people were counseled not to sell grain to any parties for forage; state
that neither party knew of the massacre until afterward, and then only by general report. . . . [August 11
issue]"
$175
78. [Mountain Meadows Massacre & Utah War]. New York Weekly Times.
New York: January 2 - December 25, 1858. Forty-three weekly issues [parts of volumes VII and VIII]. Folio. Eight pages each. Some light wear with some browning.
Early owner (looks to be contemporary) has written a summary of the prime contents
of each issue in the top margin of its front page.
Extensive archive covering the Utah War. Most of the articles are substantial and some are quite
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long. For example, the entire front page of the July 3 covers the Utah War, "Important From Utah",
that continues to page two.
There are a handful of articles on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Other Utah & Mormon content includes an interview with Peregrins Sessions, describing the Mormon belief that men can
become Gods.
"The road over which we had traveled is marked all along by the lonely graves of those who fell asleep
by the way. Too often the wolves rob them of their occupants, destroying all trace of the form which
was buried with tearful tenderness. Indeed, unless a collection of stones is heaped upon the grave, it is
almost certain to be violated by the wolves; and as anything larger than a pebble cannot be found in
portions of the road, that safeguard is often impossible to secure. The one which we passed to-day was
that of a young woman, as we discovered by the rude head-board containing her epitaph, written
upon it in red chalk. The grave was open, and all that remained of its former tenant was here and
there a human bone scattered about in the surrounding sage-bush. In another place lay the bonnet of
the poor unfortunate and not far distant a luxuriant braid of dark brown hair. The name was
English, and the fabric of some scattered fragments of the clothing of the deceased was evidently
English. There is little doubt that she was one of a company of Mormon emigrants who fell asleep
here while on her way to Zion, fortunate in finding a grave even in this desolate spot rather than live
to suffer the living death to which Mormon tyranny would soon have subjected every pure and holy
aspiration. [a tiny portion of the front page coverage on July 3, 1858, original to this paper, from the
Times correspondent]"
$1,500
Kimball Family Copy
79. Morrison, Leonard Allison & Stephan Paschall Sharples. History of the
Kimball Family in America, From 1634 to 1897, and of its Ancestors The
Kemballs or Kemboldes of England. With an Account of the Kembles of Boston,
Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Damrell & Upham, 1897. First Edition. 1278pp. Octavo
[22.5 cm] Green cloth with red and black leather labels on backstrip. Very good. Light
rubbing to extremities of boards, more so at corners. Front hinge a little shaky.
This volume was a family copy with much annotation and marginalia throughout, as well as numerous
related paper and ephemera laid in. This volume belonged to Augusta Kimball Lubbe who was a relative of
Heber C. Kimball. This branch of the Kimball family stayed in the Nauvoo area after the Mormon exodus to the Great Basin. An important family history with a wealth of added material by the family.
$1,500
Early History of Nauvoo
80. [Nauvoo]. Scenery of the United States Illustrated in a Series of
Forty Engravings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855. First Edition.
174pp. Quarto [28.5 cm.] Full moroccan with decorative tooling. Raised bands. All
edges gilt. Title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip. Very good. Light rubbing
to extremities. Volume has been rebacked with the original backstrip laid over. New
endsheets and pastedowns. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet.
'Nauvoo Restoration' stamp small on front pastedown.
Illustrated history with thirty-six beautiful, full-page steel engravings. Includes an eleven-page history of
the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, from its beginnings up to the expulsion of the Mormon faithful.
Flake/Draper 7552.
$750
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Nauvoo Temple Plates
81. [Nauvoo Temple]. Nauvoo Temple Plates. [c.1846]. We are offering for sale
the rare original dedication plate form 1846. The English Pearlware plate measures 25
cm. Image and text in light brown. The plate has had some minor restoration work,
and is slightly faded.
The image in the center of the plate is of the Nauvoo Temple. The text surrounding the image is: "The
House of the Lord Built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Commenced April 6th AD
1841. - Holiness to the Lord". On the rim of the plate are the names of the Quorum of the Twelve; Heber
C. Kimball, Orson Hyde. Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Williard Richards, John Taylor, George A. Smith,
Amasa Lyman, Ezra A. Benson, George Miller PHQ, Newell K. Whitney PAP, Patriarch John Smith
and President Brigham Young.
In 1839 the Saints were forced to leave Missouri were forced under the Extermination Order of Governor
Boggs. Fleeing east into Illinois, and with their leader, Joseph Smith imprisoned there was some uncertainty to their destination. A saint by the name of Israel Barlow crossed farther north than most of the main
group. Barlow learned form a land agent that there was a large tract of land for sale in Commerce. Barlow
contacted First Counselor, Sidney Rigdon and it was agreed they would purchase the land for settlement.
When they arrived in Commerce they found a swamp. The town was renamed Nauvoo, and in a few short
years the Saints had turned the former swamp into the Beautiful town of Nauvoo. Unfortunately their
earlier troubles in Ohio and Missouri would once again be repeated. In 1845 and 1846, the Saints were
forced to leave their homes once again. Some members stayed to finish the Temple's first floor, so it could be
dedicated. The Temple was dedicated in private services on the 30th of April 1846. After this dedication most
remaining members left to join the rest of their faith in the Great Basin. After the few remaining stragglers
left mobs came from Carthage and vandalized and destroyed the Nauvoo Temple.
We are offering the original plate with a commemorative plate the matches the original with the
exception that the image and text are in blue. We are unsure how many of the original plates survived the
looting of Nauvoo, but considering it was more than likely brought across the west to Salt Lake City we
imagine the number to be small. This is the only pair of these plates we have offered for sale, with the
original being scarce.
$2,000
First American Pearl of Great Price
82. Smith, Joseph. Pearl of Great Price: Being a Choice Selection from the
Revelations, Translations and Narrations of Joseph Smith, First Prophet, Seer, and
Revelator to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT:
Printed at the Latter-day Saints' Printing and Publishing Establishment, 1878. First
Salt Lake edition. 71pp. Octavo [23 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Near Fine.
In addition to the material in the 1851 edition, revisions to the book of Moses were made from Joseph
Smith's revision of the holy scriptures. Also, "the revelation of plural marriage" (Doctrine and Covenants
132) was added. Contains the 'Book of Abraham' fold-out plate in very good condition with minor wear.
Flake/Draper 6167.
$3,000
Orson Pratt’s “The Seer”
83. Pratt, Orson. The Seer. Liverpool: January, 1853 - August, 1854. Volume 1,
Number 1 - Volume 2, Number 8. 320pp. Octavo [21 cm] Contemporary 3/4 leather
over marbled boards with gilt bands and title on backstrip. Fine. Light rubbing to
boards. Minor sporadic underlining. We are offering all twenty issues for sale. These
are all Liverpool printings.
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Following the fall General Conference in 1852, Orson Pratt was called to preside of the eastern mission and
to publish a periodical defending Mormon theology and practices, particularly polygamy. Eighteen issues
were printed in Washington and Liverpool, as well as two additional issues printed only in Liverpool.
Pratt covered many doctrinal issues including Celestial Marriage and the Preexistence. Brigham Young
thought some of the ideas discussed were poorly conceived, and had the publication cease operation in 1855.
Very Scarce. Mormon Fifty 40. Flake/Draper 7610. Mormon Imprints 42.
$6,000
84. Pratt, Orson. The Seer. Liverpool: January, 1853 - August, 1854. Volume 1,
Number 1 - Volume 2, Number 8. 320pp. Octavo. [21 cm] Beautifully rebound in full
black grained leather with gilt stamped bands and title on backstrip. New pastedowns
and endsheets. Extremities of first eight leaves have been professionally repaired. A
handfull of lines underlined in ink. Housed in a custom tan linen box with black
leather label on the spine.
Very Scarce. Mormon Fifty 40. Flake/Draper 7610. Mormon Imprints 42.
$6,000
85. Pratt, Orson. Series of Pamphlets by Orson Pratt, One of the Twelve
Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With Portrait. To Which
is Appended a Discussion Held in Boston, Between Elder William Gibson, President
of the Saints in the Manchester Conference, and the Rev. Mr. Woodman. Also a
Discussion Held in France, Between Elder John Taylor, One of the Twelve Apostles,
and Three Reverend Gentleman of Different Orders, Containing a Facsimile of
Writings Engraved on Six Metallic Plates Taken Out of an Ancient Mound in the
State of Illinois, in the Year 1843. Liverpool: R. James, 1851. 18 parts. Octavo [21cm]
Rebound in 1/2 leather over wood boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Former Divinity School library with only a few
marks: Bookplate on front pastedown. Blind embossment at foot of title page. Ink
stamp at foot of fore edge.
This is the more complete version with the "Three Nights' Public Discussion" pamphlet at rear. Pratt
frontis present. The Kinderhook fold-out plate is present and in a clean condition. Originally published as
separate pamphlets. "O. Pratt's Works was an influential book. Its tracts were published at a time when
the British Mission was producing many converts, most of them learned the tenets of Mormonism from
Orson's pamphlets" - Peter Crawley. Flake/Draper 6542. Crawley 551. Mormon Imprints 32. Mormon
Fifty 35.
$2,500
Early Mormon Fiction
86. Pratt, Parley Parker. Angel of the Prairies: A Dream of the Future. Salt
Lake City, UT: Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment. 1880. 24pp.
Duodecimo [17 cm] White sewn wrappers. Fine.
This imaginative work by the prominent Mormon leader is the first tract of fiction published by Latter-day
Saints. Pratt's earlier fiction work "Dialogue between Joseph Smith and the Devil" was published by the
New York Herald. Nice copy of this scarce work. Early Mormon literature from the prominent Mormon
scholar. LDS leader. Flake/Draper 6559.
$1,000
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87. Pratt, Parley Parker. Angel of the Prairies: A Dream of the Future. Salt
Lake City, UT: Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment., 1880. 24pp.
Duodecimo [17 cm] White sewn wrappers. Near fine with subtle discoloring to
extremities. Flake/Draper 6559.
$750
88. Pratt, Parley Parker. Key to the Science of Theology: Designed as An
Introduction to the First Principles of Spiritual Philosophy; Religion; Law and
Government; as Delivered by the Ancients, and as Restored in This Age, for the Final
Development of Universal Peace, Truth and Knowledge. Liverpool: F.D. Richards,
1855. First Edition. 173pp. Small octavo [18 cm] Blue diced Russia calf with raised
bands and gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near fine. Missing front free endsheet.
Minor wear at head of front pastedown. Head of rear free endsheet clipped. Errata
present. Boards fine. Binding tight.
Beautiful copy of a major doctrinal work. "Key to Theology is Mormonism's earliest comprehensive synthetical work. Its scope is complete" - Peter Crawley. Flake/Draper 6585. Scallawagiana 50. Mormon Fifty
45. Mormon Imprints 51. (9449)
$3,500
Early Copy of Major Work with Reward Notice
89. Pratt, Parley Parker. A Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People, or an
Introduction to the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. New
York: J.W. Harrison, Printer, 1839. Second edition, revised. 216pp. [14.5 cm] Original
brown cloth. Titles gilt stamped on backstrip Volume has been rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Hinges have also been repaired. The repair work seems to be
from the turn of the century, perhaps earlier. Gentle sporadic foxing throughout.
This volume represents one of the seminal works in the LDS canon. Parley Pratt left on a mission to the
east coast in the summer of 1837. Upon arriving in New York he found few willing listeners, when they
opened the door at all. Filled with inspiration, he locked himself in his room. After almost two months, Pratt
had finished what has become one of the major works of Mormonism.
In 1839 Pratt and his family left Detroit, and made there way to New York City, where Pratt was set to
sail to England. Before leaving on his mission, Pratt immediately set out to republish 'Voice of Warning'
to help him with his proselytizing. There are two major changes to the second edition: chapter four is
expanded to include citations from Boudinot's 'Star in the West' and Priest's 'American Antiquities', as
well as other volumes to show the validity of the Book of Mormon. Chapter five "Proclamation" was eliminated altogether. This edition also includes the added notice of a three hundred dollar reward to any who
can refute the contents. This notice was on the verso of the title page, and only appeared in this volume. The
reward announcement is quite prominent at the front of the volume. It is unknown whether Pratt was ever
approached to claim the reward, or if he ever paid out. The reward was abandoned for later editions.
Pratt's Voice of Warning was not the first LDS publication to lay out the tenets and theology of the
fledgling Mormon Faith, but it was the first to specifically lay out the differences of Mormonism and other
Christian Faiths. One of the most important and early volumes of Mormon doctrine from the 1830's.
According to Crawley: "...it erected a standard for all future Mormon pamphleteers by setting down a
formula for describing Mormonism's basic doctrines and by listing biblical proof texts, arguments, and
examples which would be used by others for the next century".
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All LDS titles from the 1830s are uncommon and sought after. The print run of the second edition was only
2,500, and due to overuse and other factors, this diminutive little volume has become quite scarce.
Flake/Draper 6628. Crawley 62.
$25000
90. Pratt, Parley Parker. A Voice of Warning, and Instruction to All People; or,
An Introduction to the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Liverpool: F.D. Richards, 1854. Eighth edition. 199pp. Sextodecimo [14.5
cm] Original green leather with decoratively stamped gilt to front and rear boards.
Raised panels and gilt at spine. All edges gilt. Near Fine. Minor wear to surfaces and
extremities.
A very nice copy of an early and important volume of LDS theology in an attractive leather binding.
Flake/Draper 6634
$1,000
91. Pratt, Parley Parker. A Voice of Warning, and Instruction to All People; or,
An Introduction to the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Liverpool: F.D. Richards, 1854. Eighth edition. 199pp. Sextodecimo [14.5
cm] Original brown leather with decorative gilt stamping to boards and backstrip.
Title gilt stamped on backstrip. A.E.G. Gilt dentelles. Raised bands. Decorative yellow endsheets. Very fine.
A beautiful copy of the most important of all non-canonical works. Flake/Draper 6634.
$1,000
92. Reay, David M. Selected Manifestations; Being an Unofficial Collection
of Temple Dedicatory Prayers, Revelations, Visions, Dreams, Doctrinal Expositions,
and Other Inspired Declarations not Presently Included in The Official Canon of
Scriptures Known as the Four Standard Works of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Oakland, CA: 1985. First edition. 413pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Original
white buckram with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip.
Contains many visions and revelations of the LDS church presidency. Self-published and self-distributed
work that was recalled after the LDS church made its displeasure known. Most copies were destroyed.
$750
93. Rhoades, Gale R. and Kerry Ross Boren. Footprints in the Wilderness:
A History of the Lost Rhoades Mines. Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press,
1980. 416 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with gilt title and portrait to the front cover
and gilt title to backstrip. Illustrated. Fine/Near fine. Gentle rubbing to corners
of jacket. Jacket "reinforced" with scotch tape on reverse at corners. One small hole
to rear panel.
Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Inscription reads "Best Wishes, - Gale R. Rhoades 10/28/80". One of Utah's favorite folk tales. The story of the Thomas and Caleb Rhoades and their
mysterious gold mining operation in the Uintah mountains. This was the last printing of this highly sought
after title.
$300
94. Roberts, Brigham Henry. Life of John Taylor: Third President of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon
& Sons Co., Publishers, 1892. First edition. 468 pp. Octavo [24 cm] 3/4 leather with
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blue boards and gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. Illustrated. Near fine.
Small discoloration at foot of backstrip. Faint rubbing to corners. Subtle bumping to
foot and head of backstrip.
Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. "I would like
to obey and place myself in subjection to every law of man. What then? Am I to disobey the law of God?
Has any man a right to control my conscience, or your conscience? ...No man has a right to do it" - John
Taylor. Flake/Draper 7331.
$750
95. Roberts, Brigham Henry. Life of John Taylor: Third President of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon
& Sons Co., Publishers, 1892. First edition. 468 pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full leather with
gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. All edges gilt. illustrated. Near fine.
Light bumping to corners. Backstrip gently faded. Head of backstrip chipped with
minor loss. Frontis detached and laid in. Flake/Draper 7331.
$1,000
96. Romney, Thomas Cottam. Mormon Colonies In Mexico. Salt Lake City,
UT: Deseret Book Company, 1938. First Edition. 338pp Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown pebbled cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine.
With the passing of the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887, many polygamists decided to remove themselves from
the grasp of the Federal Government by moving to Mexico, where they believed (erroneously) polygamy
was legal. This is the scarce first edition history of all of the Mormon polygamous colonies in Mexico.
$150
Large Format C.R. Savage Temple Photograph
97. Savage, Charles Roscoe. Large Format view of the Salt Lake Temple. Salt
Lake City, UT: C.R. Savage, Photo, [c.1892]. Large format albumen print (29 cm by
23.5 cm) in original 19th century frame and matte, with original glass and backing (50
cm by 42.5 cm). Image and matte crisp and clean. Gold leaf at edges or frame starting
to chip away. Image is entitled: "Salt Lake Temple: Capstone Laid April 6th,1892."
A striking image from the renowned pioneer Mormon photographer, Charles Roscoe Savage. Large format
views such as this one by Savage are exceedingly uncommon. Savage was a prolific Mormon photographer
who photographed throughout Utah and the western United States. He is noted for taking the first
photographs of what would later become Zion National Park and he recorded the construction of the
Mormon Temple and Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
$1,500
C.R. Savage View Books
98. Savage, Charles Roscoe. The Reflex of Salt Lake City and Vicinity:
Including letter-press description and illustrations of Public Edifices, Hotels,
Business Blocks, Churches, Indians, Bathing Resorts, etc., and a variety of information, valuable for the Tourist or Resident, from reliable sources. Salt Lake City, UT:
C.R. Savage, [c.1892]. Duodecimo [16 cm] Red pebbled cloth with gilt stamped title
on front board and decorative floral stamping in black to front board. Accordion style
pullout of thirteen panels. The first three panels are a "Birds-eye View of Salt Lake
City from the S.E.". The remaining panels show buildings of note in Salt Lake City. 35
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page booklet attached to the rear board. Fine. Flake/Draper 7537. View books by
Savage are not particularly uncommon, but in this beautiful condition they very
scarce.
$300
99. Savage, Charles Roscoe. Salt Lake City, and the Way Thither. London
/ Salt Lake City: T. Nelson and Sons / Savage and Ottinger, [1868]. First Edition. 31pp.
plus eleven full color illustrations taken from Savage photographs. Oblong
Sextodecimo [10 cm by 17 cm] Green cloth with decorative black stamped borders
with gilt stamped title at center. Decorative blind stamped border to rear border.
Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners and joints. Gentle sporadic foxing throughout
with some offsetting from the color plates.
Beautiful full color plates fill this book. The frontis is a two plate panorama titled 'Salt Lake City and the
Valley - Looking South'. The image would be from the top of Main Street looking South. Across the plate
there are eleven numbers, and at the foot is a legend calling out the points of interest: Wasatch Mountains,
President Brigham Young's Schoolhouse, City Hall, Sion House, Theatre, State Road, Deseret News
Office, East Temple Street, Foundation of Temple, New Tabernacle, Overflowed Banks of River Jordan.
The second plate that also serves as the half-title page is 'Bear River Bridge and Malad Gap. The third plate
is titled 'Across the Continent', image is of a Overland Mail stagecoach with a team horses at full speed.
The fourth plate is titled: 'Mouth of Echo Canon; Utah'. The fifth plate is titled: 'Weber Station'. The
sixth plate is titled: 'Salt Lake Hotel'. The seventh plate is titled: 'Mormon Tabernacle'. The eighth plate
is titled: 'City Hall'. The ninth plate is titled: 'Bench Part of Salt Lake City'. The tenth plate is titled:
'Devil's Gate'. The eleventh plate is titled: 'The Unknown River'. A very nice copy of this lovely work.
Flake/Draper 5776.
$400
100. Savage, Charles Roscoe. Views of Utah and Tourists Guide. Salt Lake
City, UT: Art Bazar, 1888. Oblong Sextodecimo [10 cm by 15 cm] Red cloth with decorative blind stamping to boards. Title gilt stamped on front board. Sixteen accordion
plates of Salt Lake views. 24 page tourist booklet attached to the rear pastedown.
Flake/Draper 7544. Nice copy of this view book that includes not just the typical shots
of Salt Lake City, but also includes views of St. George, Logan, Provo, Ogden and
other locales in Utah.
$300
Joseph Smith’s Hebrew Manual
101. Seixas, Joshua. Manual Hebrew Grammar for the Use of Beginners.
Salt Lake City, UT: Sunstone Foundation, 1981. Facsimile reprint of the 1834 second
edition. 119 pp. Octavo [22 cm] Full black leather with gilt stamped title on front
board and backstrip. Fine. Twenty-three page introduction titled 'Joseph Smith as a
Student of Hebrew' by Louis Zucker. Printed in edition of ten copies, this is number
nine.
Joshua Seixas was an instructor at Oberlin College who was recruited by early Saints to teach Hebrew at
the School of the Prophets in nearby Kirtland, Seixas taught Hebrew from January to March in 1836 and
used this work as the textbook.
Smith writes of Seixas in History of the Church "Attended school, as usual, and waited upon several
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visitors, and showed them the record of Abraham. Mr. Seixas, our Hebrew teacher, examined it with deep
interest, and pronounced it to be original beyond all doubt." Scarce.
$1,500
Book of Mormon Parallels
102. Smith, Ethan. View of the Hebrews; Exhibiting the Destruction of
Jerusalem; The Certain Restoration of Judah and Israel; The Present State of Judah
and Israel; and an Address of the Prophet Isaiah Relative to Their Restoration.
Poultney, VT: Smith & Shute, 1823. First Edition. 187pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] Full
leather with red leather label and gilt rules on backstrip. Near fine. Volume has been
expertly rebacked in matching leather. Gift inscription from year of publication on
front free endsheet.
Describes Reverend Smith's belief that the American Indians were direct descendants of the lost tribes of
Israel. This claim would be mirrored by Joseph Smith five years later with the printing of the Book of
Mormon. Claims of plagiarism were leveled at Joseph Smith at the time, which he fastidiously
refuted. Scarce.
$2500
103. Smith, Ethan. View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America.
Poultney, VT: Smith & Shute, 1825. Second edition, improved and enlarged. 285pp.
Duodecimo [18 cm] Full leather with red leather label on backstrip. Good.
Extremities rubbed, corners bumped, minor creasing to backstrip, head of front free
endsheet missing, contents foxed, some pages dog-eared. This is the second edition,
which some believed Smith used to write the Book of Mormon.
$2500
104. Smith, Ethan. View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America.
Poultney, VT: Smith & Shute, 1825. Second edition, improved and enlarged. 285pp.
Duodecimo [18 cm] Full leather with gilt bands to backstrip. Fine. Label on backstrip
faded. Pencil notation on front free endsheet and front pastedown. Light sporadic
foxing throughout.
$2500
Contemporary Account of Joseph Smith’s Assasination
105. [Smith, Joseph]. Universalist Watchman and Christian Repository
[Death of the Prophet! - Joe and Hiram Smith are Dead!]. Montpelier, VT: July 20,
1844. Volume 16, Number 1. 8pp. Folio. Complete Issue. Near fine. Minor overall
wear. Some separation at back fold. Smith article fills four column inches.
"just in from Warsaw, . . . shocking intelligence from the scene of the Mormon war." Initial report of the
murder of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith. Fanciful report blames the chaos on a loyal Smith
follower who "attempted to rush by the guard for the purpose of forcing his way into the jail." Goes onto
state Joseph and Hyrum were both equipped with pistols, and attempted to shoot there way out of the
Carthage Jail.
$500
Banned 1853 Joseph Smith Biography
106. Smith, Lucy [Mack]. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and his Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: Published for
Orson Pratt by S.W. Richards; London: Sold at the Latter-Day Saints' Book Depot,
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1853. First edition. 297pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Original brown diced leather with
decorative blind stamping and title gilt stamped on backstrip. A.E.G. Gilt dentelles.
This contemporary binding in unrecorded in any works known to us. Preface written
by Orson Pratt, Sr. Near fine. Light rubbing to extremities. Gentle bumping to corners. Name (Christopher Merkley - 1855) and date in pencil on front free endsheet.
Initials of same name in pencil on half-title.
This diminutive volume and the words contained therein have caused great controversy since its original
publication. Lucy Mack Smith (1776-1856) wrote the memoir based on her family history and the religious
revelations of her son Joseph Smith (1805-1844). With Lucy Smith's permission, but without the approval
of LDS Church President Brigham Young (1801-1877), Orson Pratt, Sr. (1811-1881) published
Biographical Sketches in Liverpool, England in 1853. Initially, the book was praised in a November 1854
Deseret News article which stated that "…many facts which it contains, and never before published, are of
great importance to the world, and the work constitutes a valuable acquisition to the libraries of the Saints."
Pratt, who was one of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, frequently battled with Brigham Young
over their differing religious theories. Young "…was really angry at Pratt over doctrinal matters and, about
half the time, while dressing him down in public and in private, simply threw in Biographical Sketches for
good measure." (Anderson, Lavina Fielding, ed. Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's
Family Memoir. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001; p. 101). Further evidence of this doctrinal feud
becoming personal between the two men can be found in the October 21, 1865 edition of the Millennial Star
( pp. 657-658). The First Presidency of the LDS Church openly condemns Biographical Sketches and
advises: "…it should be gathered up and destroyed…In Great Britain, diligence has been used in collecting
and in disposing of this work, and we wish that same diligence continued there and also exercised here, at
home, until not a copy is left. The inquiry may arise in the minds of some persons, 'Why do you want to
destroy this book?' Because, we are acquainted with individual circumstances alluded to in it, and know
many of the statements to be false…"
The lengthy admonishment went on to state that, if any church members owned a copy: "…to dispose of it
so it will never be read by any person again. If they do not, the responsibility of the evil results that may
accrue from keeping it will rest upon them and not upon us…those who have been instructed respecting its
character, and will still keep it on their tables, and have it in their houses… need rebuke, it is transmitting
lies to posterity to take such a course, and we know that the curse of God will rest upon every one, after he
comes to the knowledge of what is here said, who keeps these books for his children to learn and believe in
lies. (Star pp. 657-658)
Orson Pratt also did not escape public chastisement from the First Presidency: …"brother Pratt had it
printed, and published it, without saying a word to the First Presidency or the Twelve about what he was
doing. This is the way the book came into being. It was smuggled, juggled and foisted into existence as a
book…" (Star pp. 657-658)
Subsequently, many of the books were destroyed. Individuals still owning copies were instructed to turn
them over to their Bishops or to the church offices to be disposed of. People who voluntarily turned in their
copies were paid with a credit towards their tithing or in other works of the church. For this reason, the
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and his Progenitors for Many Generations is a rare,
controversial and historically important book. Flake/Draper 8080. Howes S645. Mormon Imprints 47.
$7,500
107. Smith, Lucy [Mack]. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and his Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: Published for
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Orson Pratt by S.W. Richards; London: Sold at the Latter-Day Saints' Book Depot,
1853. First edition. 297pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Original full leather with decorative
gilt stamping to boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Decorative gilt stamped panels between raised bands. All edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. Yellow decorative endsheets
and pastedowns. Volume has been expertly rebacked with matching leather with original backstrip laid over. Otherwise fine. Preface written by Orson Pratt, Sr.
Flake/Draper 8080. Howes S645. Mormon Imprints 47
$6,000
First Map & Non-Mormon Account of Utah
108. Stansbury, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the
Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnaissance of a New Route Through
the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. First edition. 487 pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth with title gilt stamped on backstrip and
decorative blind stamping to board. Title gilt stamped on front board of map volume.
Very Good. Backstrip of text volume is sunned. Extremities rubbed, more so at corners. Head and foot of backtsrip chipped with minimal loss. Backstrip for map volume is missing. Maps are in good condition with the usual splitting at some of the
folds. This volume is complete with all plates and maps.
Overall a nice, complete set of Stansbury’s Report and the accompanying maps. This is one of the great US
Government exploration reports of the American West, and a must for any serious collector of exploration
or Western Americana. "Stansbury’s Report along with Gunnison's book, The Mormons, provided the
outside world with an objective look at the Mormons of Utah as well as with a scientific appraisal of the
resources and fauna and flora of this section of the Great Basin." - Brigham D. Madsen. Howes S894.
Wagner/Camp 219:1. Scallawagiana 45. Wheat 764, 765.
$1,500
109. Stenhouse, Thomas Brown Holmes. Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and
Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last
Courtship of Brigham Young; Including the Story of the Hand-Cart Emigration The Mormon War - The Mountain - Meadow Massacre - The Reign of Terror in
Utah - The Doctrine of Human Sacrifice - The Political, Domestic, Social, and
Theological Influences of the Saints - The Facts of Polygamy - The Colonization of
the Rocky Mountains, and the Development of the Great Mineral Wealth of the
Territory of Utah. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First edition. 761pp.
Octavo [35 cm] 3/4 green morocan over red marbled boards. Raised bands.
Decorative gilt stamping and gilt stamped title on backstrip. Marbled fore edge and
marbled pastedowns and endsheets. Illustrated. Index. Fine. A tight crisp copy. Nicest
3/4 leather copy we have seen.
Mormon apostate Stenhouse's massive and comprehensive history of life in Utah under Brigham Young.
One of the more sensational exposes of Mormonism in the nineteenth century. "Stenhouse saw the
Mormon faith as delusion, not hoax or fraud; he was critical of Smith and Young but did not doubt their
sincerity." - Robert Flanders. Flake/Draper 8404. Scallawagiana 63.
$950
Le Conte & Zipporah Stewart Memoir
110. Stewart, Zipporah Layton. Door to Noisemakers Inn. [Salt Lake City,
UT]: [c.1975]. First Edition. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with color photographic
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boards. Near fine. Includes twenty- three pages of photographs. Includes a color frontis by Le Conte Stewart.
Self-published family history and memoir by Zipporah Stewart, who was the wife of the acclaimed Utah
artist, Le Conte Stewart. Le Conte and Zipporah where married in Hawaii were they both served LDS
missions.
Personal history that offers a glimpse of Utah art and Mormonism, spanning over century to the beginnings of the Territory. Includes stories and anecdotes about; Maynard Dixon, Christopher Layton,
Brigham Young, Spencer W. Kimball and many others.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. Inscription reads "To my Dear Friend _____- from
- Zipporah L. Stewart - I send my love and appreciation - to you always". This is the only copy we have
seen of this title. Presumed minuscule print run. Rare.
$300
Strangite Bible: Early Lds Apostasy
111. [Strang, James Jesse]. Book of the Law of the Lord: Consisting of an
Inspired Translation of some of the most Important Parts of the Law Given to Moses,
and very few Additional Commandments, with Notes and References. St. James, MI:
Printed by command of the King, at the Royal Press, Saint James, A.R.I., 1856. 336 pp.
Duodecimo [16 cm] Rebound in 1/2 red leather with matching cloth boards and title
gilt stamped on backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns added. Very good. First 8
pages (Preface and Table of Contents) on different paper (perhaps from a later edition) bound in, sporadic foxing to ends of text block, original rear free endsheets have
notes in ink.
After the murder of Joseph Smith, there was some confusion among the faithful of who was in charge. A
group of saints headed by James Strang headed north and eventually settled at Beaver Island on Lake
Michigan. James Strang ran the island as a personal kingdom even being dubbed "King James". This was
his major work on Mormon theology. This book was not completed during Strang's lifetime, and his followers later printed front-matter to bind with the sheets. There are at least four variant issues (and perhaps
more) of the introductory material. This is an expanded edition of the 1851 edition with the principle difference being the elaboration of the notes. Flake/Draper 8498. Morgan II:31
$8,500
Strangite Newspaper
112. [Strangite] Watson, Wingfield. Prophetic Controvesy (Issues 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). Prophetic Controversy. No.2; extracted from the writings and
criticisms of John E. Page, James J. Strang, William Marks and Hyrum P. Brown, to
which are added a few notes in brackets, and a short commentary by the transcriber.
[Boyne, MI. 1887] 28pp. Octavo. Yellow wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9645.
Prophetic Controversy. No. 3; or the even balances by which Isaac Scott, Chancy
Loomis, and the founders of the Reorganization are weighed and found wanting. In
two chapters. By Wingfield Watson, an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, Bay Springs, Charlevoix County, Michigan. February, 1889. [Boyne, MI.
1889]. 44 pp. Octavo. Yellow wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9646. Prophetic
Controversy. No.4. Mr. Strang proved to have been always an honorable man. The
theory that the prophetic office goes by lineal right, and the doctrine that lesser officers in the priesthood can ordain to the greater, utterly exploded. [Burlington, WI.
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1897] 38 pp. Octavo. Tan sewn wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9647. Prophetic
Controversy. No. 5. [Burlington, WI. 1903] 27 pp. Octavo. Tan stapled wrappers.
Very good. Tape on upper staple (does not affect text). Prophetic Controversy.
Flake/Draper 9648. No. 6, or "facts" for the anti-mormons located at Grayson,
Kentucky, being an answer to the following letter of inquiry. [Burlington, WI. 1905]
14 pp. Octavo. Tan sewn wrappers. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9649. Prophetic
Controversy. No. 8 . [Burlington, WI. 1907] 7 pp. Octavo. Tan sewn wraps. Near fine.
Flake/Draper 9651. Prophetic Controversy. No. 9. [Burlington, WI. 1907] [5] pp.
Octavo. Tan wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9652. Prophetic Controversy. No. 10.
[Burlington, WI. 1908] 10pp. Octavo. Tan sewn wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper
9653. Prophetic Controversy. No. 11. [Burlington, WI. 1910] 13 pp. Octavo. Tan stapled wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9655. Prophetic Controversy. No. 12.
[Burlington, WI. 1912] 20 pp. Octavo. Tan stapled wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper
9656. Prophetic Controversy. No. 13. [Burlington, WI. 1918] 14 pp. Octavo. Tan stapled wraps. Near fine. Flake/Draper 9657. Prophetic Controversy. No. 14. James J.
Strang's Memorial to the Nation. [c1935] 16 pp. Octavo. Tan stapled wraps. Very
good. Two small pieces of tape on rear cover along with mailing label and stamp. All
tan wraps show faint yellowing. Extremely scarce pamphlets on the Strangites. An
offshoot of the Mormons led by James Strang.
$2,500
Mark Hoffman: Foundation for Forgery
113. Sullivan, George [Mark Hofmann]. Making Money in Autographs. New
York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Incorporated, 1977. First Edition. 223pp.
Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Very good/Very
good. Light chipping to corners of jacket with small losses. Closed tear to jacket's
front panel near hinge. Gentle sunning to extremities of boards.
Ex-libris Mark Hofmann. Mark Hofmann began his illustrious forging career in the late seventies, and
probably picked this up for a few pointers. The introduction is by Charles Hamilton the autograph dealer,
who was one of Hofmann's biggest supporters throughout his trial. Hofmann has signed the book in blue
ink on the front pastedown, which is rather unusual because Hofmann usually printed his name. A great
association copy.
In 1985 a string of the bombs went off in Salt Lake City, leaving two innocent people dead and uncovering years of
fraud and forgeries leading to those murders, all caused by Mormon forger, bomber and murderer, Mark Hofmann.
$500
114. Taylor, Samuel W. & Raymond W. John Taylor Papers (Two Volume Set).
Redwood City, CA: Taylor Trust Publisher, 1984 & 1985. First Edition. 363 & 553pp.
Octavo [23 cm] Full blue cloth with gilt stamped titles on front boards and back
strips. Both volumes near fine in like jackets. Volume One: The Apostle, 1836-1877.
Volume Two: The President, 1877-1887.
$400
Nauvoo Newspaper
115. [Edited by Ebenezer Robinson, Don Carlos Smith & Joseph Smith]. Times
and Seasons. Zwickau, GER: F. Ullmann, 1967. Reprint. Six volumes in five. 582,
578-958, 383, 385-767, 769-1135pp. Octavos [24.5 cm] Volumes bound in a 1/4 gray
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leather with cream boards and red leather labels on backstrips. All volumes in
Near fine condition.
These reprints are the entire run of the influential Nauvoo newspaper. Published monthly or twice
monthly. Originally edited by Robinson and Don Carlos Smith (Joseph's brother). Upon the death of his
brother, Joseph became editor. The Times and Seasons was the official newspaper of the L.D.S. Church,
and between it's pages were the first appearances of the Wentworth Letter, the Book of Abraham as well as
the personal history of Joseph Smith.
One cannot hope to understand the Nauvoo period of Mormonism without the 'Times and Seasons'. More
than its predecessors, it captures the spirit of the Latter-day Saints as it chronicles their day-to-day efforts
to spread their message and gather the converted. Its pages reflect the optimism, which fueled the building
of the City of Joseph, and the sorrow, which accompanied its abandonment.
$450
Inscribed Pomeroy Tucker
116. Tucker, Pomeroy. Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism. Biography
of Its Founders and History of Its Church. Personal Remembrances and Historical
Collections Hitherto Unwritten. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1867. First
edition. 302pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Brown cloth. Illustrated. Very good. Backstrip
coming up at joints, corners bumped and rubbed, head and tail of backstrip chipped
with minor loss, bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean.
Inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication. Pomeroy Tucker was a pillar in the community of Palmyra, New York and a contemporary of Joseph Smith. These are very unflattering descriptions
of the Mormons and their faith. Flake/Draper 9036.
$1,200
117. Tullidge, Edward William. Life of Brigham Young; or, Utah and Her
Founders. New York: 1877. Second Edition. 458 + 108pp. Octavo [22.5 cm.] Original
pebbled cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Very good. Boards
faded. Light rubbing and bumping to corners. Small sticker at foot of backstrip. Name
small on front free endsheet, and again much larger on rear pastedown.
History of the "American Moses" by the early Utah historian and journalist. Flake/Draper 9042. Howes
T410.
$750
118. Tullidge, Edward William. History of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, UT:
Star Printing Company, 1886. 896 + 172 + 36pp. Octavo [29.5 cm] Attractively
rebound in 3/4 leather over marbled boards with Raised bands and gilt stamped
leather labels on backstrip.
A beautiful copy of this early history of Salt Lake, with stunning full page steel engravings of prominent
men and church leaders. Flake/Draper 9039. Howes T414.
$1,250
Utah Railroad Map
119. [Utah Railroad Map]. Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and
Township Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of Utah Accompanied by a
New and Original Compilation and Ready Reference Index, Showing in Detail the
Entire Railroad System, the Express Company doing business over each Road, and
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Accurately Locating all Cities, Towns, Post Offices, Railroad Stations, Villages,
Counties, Islands, Lakes, Rivers, etc. Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Co., 1910. 17pp.
plus large folding map [53.5 cm by 35.5 cm] Sextodecimo [16.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Very good. Minor spotting and discoloring to front panel of wrappers. Map is
colored by county and has a legend in the right corner denoting the different Railroad
lines in Utah, and assigning each a different number. Across the map are the numbers
denoting stops and stations. Map is in clean condition with a couple small splits at
folds.
$100
Salt Lake City View Books
120. [View Book]. City of the Saints Containing Views and
Descriptions of Principal Points of Interest in Salt Lake City and
Vicinity. Also Brief Sketches of the History and Religion of the Latter-Day Saints.
Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon & Sons Company. 67pp. Oblong duodecimo
[13 cm by 18 cm] 1/4 red cloth over dark red marbled boards. Title and Salt Lake
Temple silver stamped on front board. Very good. Extremities of boards rubbed.
Light overall rubbing to boards. Volume includes short histories of places of note
including: The Temple block, the Lion House, Saltair, Fort Douglas and dozens more.
Includes a handful of portraits of Prominent leaders of the Saints. Flake/Draper 2376.
$100
121. [View Book]. Salt Lake City, Utah. New York: Adolph Wittemann, 1885.
Oblong Sextodecimo [9 cm by 13 cm] Red cloth with decorative blind stamping to
boards. Title gilt stamped on front board. Satin moire pastedown. Accordion style
pullout of eighteen panels. The illustrations that fill this diminutive volume consist of
buildings of note (some panels contain up to four separate renderings), and portraits
of John Taylor, Orson Pratt, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith. Volume in
beautiful condition with no splitting to the hinges of the panels. Spot on rear pastedown is only flaw. Uncommonly nice copy of this title. Not in Flake/Draper.
$100
122. [View Book]. Souvenir of Salt Lake City and Utah. New York: A.
Wittemann, 1888. First Edition. [38pp.] Oblong octavo [15 cm by 24 cm] Side
stitched red boards with decorative floral stamping in black to front board. Title decoratively gilt stamped on front board. Near fine. A few notes in pencil and ink documenting the books former owners. Volumes consists of a short introduction and is
followed by eighteen full page plates. Uncommon in this nice condition.
Flake/Draper 8297.
$300
123. Wadsworth, Nelson B. Set in Stone Fixed in Glass: The Great Mormon
Temple and Its Photographers. Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1992. Second
printing. 388pp. Oblong quarto [22 cm] Full tan cloth with gilt stamped titles on
front board and backstrip. Fine in like jacket. Includes an index.
Fully illustrated with black & white photographs on nearly every page. Out of print and increasingly
scarce, one of the principal references on Utah photography. The best book yet produced on 19th century
Mormon photography.
$100
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The Diaries of Brigham Young
124. Watson, Elden Jay. Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 18011844. Salt Lake City, UT: Printed by Smith Secretarial Service, 1968. First Edition,
1/500. 274pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Black grained cloth with titles printed on the backstrip. Near fine. Ownership stamp on front pastedown.
Brigham Young began keeping a daily journal early in the year of 1839, for regular entries in his journal do
not appear until that time. About the same time he wrote a short history of his life which he then inserted
in front of his daily journal. Dated and particularly detailed entries, nvolving the Zion's Camp march and
several of his early missions, indicate that either he had kept some records of the important events in his life
or he had access to records kept by associates during those times. In 1845, Brigham Young prefaced his
History with a brief life sketch of his parents and each of his brothers and sisters.
$750
125. Watson, Elden J. Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847.
Salt Lake City, UT: Elden J. Watson., 1971. First edition, 1/500. 672pp. Octavo [23
cm] Blue cloth with gilt titles to front board and backstrip. Index. Near fine. Subtle
bumping to head and foot of backstrip, small faint spot at center of rear joint, bookstore price sticker on front free endsheet.
This volume is described by the author as "a reasonably accurate copy of the journal kept for Brigham
Young by his scribes during the exodus from Nauvoo, and as such might reasonably be considered Volume
VIII of the history of the Church edited by B. H. Roberts (documentary)." The binding style looks similar to the History of the Church, and according to the author this was on purpose. He envisioned this volume sitting side by side with the 'History' set.
$500
Mormon Head Cases: 19th Century Phrenology
126. Wells, Samuel Robert. The Phrenological Journal and Life
Illustrated, a Repository of Science, Literature, and General
Intelligence. Volumes 43 & 44. New York: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, 1866.
196 + 192pp. Quarto [29 cm] Bound in a contemporary 3/4 leather over green marbled boards. Gilt bands and title on backstrip. Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners.
Bookplate on front pastedown. Name in ink on front free endsheet (presumed contemporary).
In the second volume is an interesting article titled, "The Mormons. History of their Leading Men."(Vol.
44, pp. 146-51 in small type plus two full pages of woodcut illustrations, pp. 144-5). The subjects include
Joseph Smith "Joseph Smith had a large brain, a powerful body, an iron frame, an expansive chest, and,
therefore, a large heart"; Brigham Young, "He has a far-seeing mind, and his predictions are reliable, for
they are based on a sound judgment, much experience, and an extensive knowledge of human nature";
Orson Pratt, "he is a Mormon Apostle of the first magnitude, and his integrity, untiring labors, and
unflinching fidelity have endeared him to the Mormons, and hold him in their hearts even when they differ from him in judgment" and others, including Lucy Smith, Hyrum Smith, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford
Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow and a dozen more. The kind words of the author are quite unusual for the era,
when you consider the usual invective coming from the Eastern presses. Scarce.
$750
127. Whitney, Orson F. History of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon
& Sons, 1892. First Edition. Four volume set. 736, 860, 755, 707pp. Quarto [27.5 cm]
Full leather bindings with gilt decoration. Illustrated throughout with steel engrav39
ings. The bindings show general wear, with a 1-inch split to the head of the backstrip
on volume 1, but are intact and very good in a set that is difficult to find in original
bindings. Monumental history of Utah the scope and breadth of which has never
been replicated. Flake/Draper 9769.
$1,200
S. Farnham Kimball Family Copy
128. Whitney, Orson Ferguson. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle; the Father
and Founder of the British Mission. Salt Lake City, UT: Published by the Kimball
Family. Printed at the Juvenile Instructor Office, 1888. First Edition. 520pp. Octavo
[24 cm] Full grained leather with decorative gilt stamped borders to front and rear
boards. Title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip. Raised bands between gilt
rules. All edges gilt. New pastedowns and endsheets. Minor rubbing to corners. A few
small scuffs to front board. Both frontis portraits present.
Biography of the Mormon leader by his grandson. This volume originally belonged to S. Farnham Kimball
(Heber's son). The copy was passed down through the family. Family marginalia throughout. Family gift
inscriptions on the front free endsheets. A rare, one-of-a kind family heirloom. Flake/Draper 9772.
$1,500
129. Whitney, Orson Ferguson. Through Memory's Halls: The Life Story of
Orson F. Whitney. Independence, MO: Zion's Printing and Publishing Company,
1930. First Edition. 424pp. Octavo [22 cm] Publisher's green grained buckram with
gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. Near fine.
Originally, this volume was only intended for Whitney's children, and never intended for public consumption. Prior to his death it was distributed to family and friends. Rare. Flake/Draper 9788.
$400
130. Wilson, Elijah Nicholas & Howard R. Driggs. White Indian Boy: The
Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones. Illustrated by F.N. Wilson.
Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1919. First edition thus. 222pp.
Small octavo [20.5 cm] Gray illustrated. cloth with black stamped titles on front
board and backstrip. Fine. An exceptionally clean copy.
The autobiographical story of Elijah Nicholas Wilson, who lived among the Shoshone, was a Pony Express
Rider, trapper, rancher and Indian agent. 'Pioneer Life Series' Flake/Draper 9911.
$150
Manifestos Banning Polygamy
131. [Woodruff, Wilford]. Manifesto of the Presidency and Apostles
Issued December 12, 1889. Also The Official Declaration or Manifesto
by President Wilford Woodruff Prohibiting Further Plural
Marriages and Its Adoption by the General Conference, October 6, 1890. Salt
Lake City, UT: Deseret News, [1890]. 4pp. Octavo [20 cm] Gray stapled wrappers.
Near Fine. Crease on inside lower left corner of wrappers. Deseret News article from
April 6th 1904 announcing second manifesto attached to inside of the rear cover.
This pamphlet reprints 'Official Declaration' from 1889 and adds the one-page piece entitled 'Official
Declaration Prohibiting Plural Marriage'. This volume is not to be confused with the First Manifesto
issued at the semiannual conference of October, 1890. The 'Manifesto' of 1890 prohibited any new plural
marriages. This 'Manifesto of the Presidency...' states the Church's official position on violence and the
Church's loyalty to the United States government.
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The following one page piece entitled 'Official Declaration Prohibiting Plural Marriage'. This was the
beginning of the end for officially sanctioned plural marriages, and we believe this predates the printing of
the conference report of October, 1890. "We are not teaching polygamy, or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our temples or in any other place in the territory."
The defensive tone of both works is apparent. The national mood towards the Mormons in the late 19th
century was acidic, with the lurid tales in the eastern presses of mind control, white slavery, revenge killings
and general rotten behavior, the Mormons developed a siege mentality that takes center stage in this work.
Flake/Draper locates only four copies. Flake/Draper 1399.
$2,500
First Mormon Book Auction
132. Woodward, Charles Lowell. Bibliothica Scallawagiana. Catalogue of a
matchless collection of books, pamphlets, autographs, pictures &c., relating to
Mormonism and the Mormons. The 10 years' gatherings of Charles L. Woodward,
who enjoyed superior facilities for their acquisition, has never let slip an opportunity
- whether at public or private sale - of adding to their number, to be sold at venue,
Monday, January 19, 1880, at half-past three in the , by Messrs. Bangs and Co. [New
York]: [1880]. 50pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rebound in 3/4 leather with maroon boards.
Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Original gray wrappers present. New endsheets and
pastedowns added. Very good. Corners and joints rubbed (corners rubbed through),
original wraps chipped at extremities with loss, numbers in ink next to lot numbers.
First auction of books pertaining to Mormonism and also the first bibliography of Mormon content. Quite
scarce. Flake/Draper 10,005.
$3,500
133. Wyl, William [Wymetal, Wilhelm, Ritter von]. Joseph Smith, the Prophet,
His Family and Friends; a Study based on Facts and Documents with Fourteen
Illustrations. Salt Lake City, UT: Tribune Printing and Publishing Company, 1886.
First Edition. 318pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt title on front board.
Illustrated. . At head of title page it states "Volume First". An exceptionally nice copy
of this uncommon Joseph Smith portrait. Frontispiece illustration shows two views
of the death mask of Joseph Smith.
This was intended to be a series of Mormon Portraits, but no more were ever issued. The author was sent
to Utah by the Berliner Tageblatt to investigate Mormonism. This uncommon 19th century portrait of
Joseph Smith actually contains two title pages with completely different titles. The present title and also on
the "first" title page is the following title: Mormon Portraits or the Truth about the Mormon Leaders from
1830 to 1886. Flake/Draper 10,034.
$400
Scarce, 1853 Brigham Young Signed Letter
134. [Young, Brigham]. Brigham Young letter with signature. Letter is
Young's reply to a William H. Sweetler of Charlestown, request for an autograph.
The oblong letter on blue stationary measures 8" by 4.5" and is dated June 1st, 1853.
Letter states "G.S.L. City - Utah, June 1st, 1853 - Sir - Being fond of obliging all persons, as far as consistant [sic], - in Compliance with your request I furnish you these
- My Autographs. - Brigham Young". Boldly signed.
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True Young signatures (as opposed to his scribes) are rare, and do not appear on the market as often as one
might think. Brigham Young is truly one of the largest figures in 19th century American History his influence can be seen today thoughout the west, and around the globe. Scarce.
$4,500
Land Deed for Brigham Young’s Gardo House
135. [Young, Brigham, James Jack & Daniel H. Wells]. [Gardo House] Deed of
Conveyance from Daniel H. Wells, Mayor of Salt Lake City, to Brigham Young.
January 10, 1873. Land deed to Brigham Young for parcel of land that is directly south
of The Beehive House and south west of Eagle Gate. Young would build the Gardo
House (Amelia's Palace) on this lot.
Young wanted to build a house for entertaining and receiving guests and dignitaries that traveled great distances to meet him. It was decided that Harriet Amelia Folsom Young, who was allegedly Brigham Young's
favorite wife, would serve as official hostess. "Family members agreed that Amelia, who was young, childless, refined, and talented, was the ideal wife to assume such large social responsibilities"
- Susan Young Gates.
The Mansion would not be finished in Young's lifetime. However, when finished though, it was hailed as
one of the finest homes between the Midwest and the West Coast, and became the defacto Church
Headquarters for most of the next two decades.
Signed and dated by Daniel Wells at foot of document and notarized with seal and signed by
James Jack on reverse.
$3,500
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II. Western Americana
136. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: The
Native Races (Five volume set). San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company,
Publishers, 1883. 797, 805, 796, 807, 796pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full calf with black
leather labels on backstrips. All edges marbled. All volumes very good or better except
volume one, rear board of volume one missing. Light rubbing to extremities of boards,
more so at corners. Some minor scuffing to boards. Small stain to head of volume
five's rear board. Gentle spotting to endsheets and pastedowns. Some of the fold-out
have minor bumping to end s with a few small closed tears.
Volume One: Wild Tribes. Volume Two: Civilized Nations. Volume Three: Myths and Languages.
Volume Four: Antiquities. Volume Five: Primitive History. First five volumes in the exhaustively
researched western historical series. Bancroft had formed a large collection of source materials on the history of the American west and decided to write the definitive work on the subject. He employed assistants to
prepare statements of the facts for large sections of the proposed history. Originally, he intended to use these
statements as the basis of a narrative from his own hand, but as the work progressed he came to use them
with slight changes. We have his own word that the assistants were capable investigators and there is independent evidence to show that some of them deserved his confidence. Bancroft considered himself the author
of the series. Howes B87.
$550
Billy the Kid’s Best Friend
137. Coe, George W. Frontier Fighter: The Autobiography of George W.
Coe Who Fought and Rode with Billy the Kid. As related to Nan
Hillary Harrison. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition.
220pp. Octavo [21 cm.] Gray cloth with green titles. Very good. Light rubbing to corners, name in pencil on front free endsheet .
Inscribed and dated by Coe under the frontis portrait. Inscription reads "Geo. W. Coe - Glenem (?) New
Mex - May 1 1938 Age 82". George W. Coe is generally known as the last survivor of the Lincoln County
War and the best friend of William H. Bonney, aka "Billy the Kid". Scarce.
$950
Hand Tinted Map
138.
[Colton, J.H.]. Colton's Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book
Through the Western States and Territories. New York: J.H. Colton and
Company, 1855. First edition. 100 + 36pp. Sextodecimo (16mo) [15.5 cm.] Original
brown cloth with decorative floral stamping to front and rear board. Title gilt
stamped on front board, and blind stamped on rear board. Very good. Volume has
been professionally rebacked. Light rubbing to extremities. Gentle bumping to corners. Hinges reinforced with binder's tape that matched the pages. Sporadic foxing
throughout.
Beautiful hand-colored map present at reverse. Map entitled: 'Guide through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa. Showing the Township Lines of the United States Survey'. Map by
J. Calvin Smith. Map measures 64.5 cm by 56 cm. Map in nice condition with only a few small
tears and light foxing.
$1,500
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Pacific Railroad Survey Matched Senate Issue
139. [Davis, Jefferson; Secretary of War]. Report of Explorations and
Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route
for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made
Under the Direction of the Secratary of War... [Pacific Railroad Survey].
Washington[D.C.]: Beverley Tucker, Printer , 1855- 1861. First Quarto editions.
Twelve volumes, in thirteen parts (Volume twelve in two parts). Large Quartos [29
cm] Original pebbled brown cloth with decorative blind stamping to boards. Titles
gilt stamped on backstrip. Illustrated. Index. Gentle fading to backstrips with minor
chipping. Some volumes show light rubbing and wear to extremities. Sporadic foxing
throughout, though a large majority of the color lithographs remain in excellent condition. Volume XI (maps & plates) contains Warren's great map, though laid in loose,
and with a couple of panels detached (many of the large maps and profiles are fragile,
& with some splits as is usually encountered).
A matching Senate set. This Monumental work is rarely found in this nice condition. Complete and profusely illustrated. "...it was the best cartographical work on the West up to its time.." - Wright Howes.
"...these volumes contain a monumental collection of scientific information, geographical, zoological,
botanical, geological, of the still mysterious American West." - Henry Wagner. Howes P3. Moffat 35,36 &
49. Wheat 822,823 & 936. Wagner/Camp 262-267 [pp. 468-505]
$15000
140. Dimsdale, Thomas J. Vigilantes of Montana, or, Popular Justice in
the Rocky Mountains. Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of
the Chase, Trial Capture, and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road
Agent Band, Together with accounts of the Lives and Crimes of many
of the Robbers and Desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with
sketches of Life in the Mining Camps of the "Far West". Virginia City,
MT: D.W. Tilton, Publisher, 1882. Second edition. 241pp. Sextodecimo [16.5 cm]
Original gray wrappers with printed titles on cover. Very good. Light chipping to corners with small losses. Head and foot of backstrip chipped with loss (foot more so).
Three small spots on rear cover, one bleeds through onto the last page.
A fascinating first-hand look at the lawlessness and violence that permeated the mining camps of the Rocky
Mountains. The author was the editor of the local Virginia City paper (Montana Post), and one of the vigilantes described within. Originally serialized in the Montana Post. "Not only the first, but textually the
most important, book ever printed in Montana" - Wright Howes. Six Guns 596. Howes D355.
$1250
141. Domenech, Emmanuel Henri Dieudonne. Seven Years' Residence in the
Great Deserts of North America. In Two Volumes. London: Longman,
Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 445 + 465 pp. Octavos [22 cm] Full leather with
gilt stamped crests to boards. Gilt rules borders to boards. Raised bands with decorative gilt stamping. Red leather labels on backstrips. Marbled fore edges. Marbled
pastedowns and endsheets. Near fine. Subtle rubbing to extremities of boards, slightly more at corners. Upper right corners of leather label on volume one is chipped with
a small loss. Contemporary gift inscription in ink on front free endsheet of volume
one. Fold out map in volume one present and in clean condition with only minor
creasing near gutter.
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Illustrated with fifty-eight color woodcuts by A. Joliet, three plates of ancient Indian music, and a map
showing the actual situation of the Indian tribes. All present. Domenech was a Catholic Priest from
France, who traveled extensively in the American Southwest. Self-aggrandizing and very colorful at times,
but the nonetheless an important source of information on the indigenous peoples of the American
Southwest. Wheat 356:1. Sabin 20554. Howes D420. Flake/Draper 2973.
$950
High Spot of Grand Canyon Exploration
142. Dutton, Clarence Edward. Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on
the Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. Washington [D.C.]:
[United States Government Printing Office] Julius Bien & Co. Lith. New York, 1882.
First edition. Twenty-three sheets including title-page and table of contents (sheet 1),
12 color maps, 10 color views. Folio. Rebound in maroon cloth with title portion of
original front board attached to front board. New endsheets and pastedowns added.
Backstrip and front 1/4's of earlier binding (not original) laid over. Very Good. Minor
bumping and rubbing to corners of boards. Light moisture staining near gutter
throughout that is more prominent at front and rear of volume - particularly the title
page (the staining to the plates is discreet, and more pronounced on the reverse), the
staining is very subtle on the views and paintings, binder's tape at gutter on reverse of
plates throughout, scotch tape has been used to "repair" short closed tears throughout
(23 instances), some plates nicked at extremities with subtle losses. This volume is
complete. Scarce in any condition.
In 1875, Clarence Edward Dutton (1841-1912) joined the United States Geological Survey and is known
for his extensive explorations of the Rocky Mountain region. His greatest accomplishment is his Tertiary
History of the Grand Canon District of 1882. It is still considered the preeminent work on the Grand
Canyon to date. The atlas is beautifully illustrated with maps and views engraved by Julius Bien. Sheet
XVIII of the atlas, entitled "The Transept, Kaibab Division, Grand Canyon" is based on the monumental painting of the same title by artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Moran, more than any other artist is
most closely associated with images of the Grand Canyon. The field artist for the Dutton geological exploration was William Henry Holmes (1846-1933). Holmes was most noted for his sense of realism and accurate draftsmanship. Holmes contributed many finely executed panoramic views of the Grand Canyon to
the Atlas that are quite stunning. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, The Art Institute of
Chicago and The Brooklyn Art Club among others. Holmes later held positions as Curator at the
University of Chicago (1898-1906) and was a former Director of the National Academy of Design (19201932). Farquhar states: "One of the greatest, if not the very greatest of all Grand Canyon books...The atlas,
containing the superb panoramic views by William H. Holmes and a drawing by Thomas Moran, is a rich
portfolio of art as well as a collection of maps and an exposition of geology." Farquhar 73.
$5,000
Early Exploration of the Southwest
143. Emory, William Hemsley. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance, from
Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California includ ing part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. Washington:
Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. First Edition. 614pp. Octavo [23 cm]
Rebound in blue pebbled buckram with gilt stamped bands and titles on backstrip.
New endsheets and pastedowns added. Table of contents in pencil on verso of front
free endsheet. Stimple stamp at head of title page. Number small stamped in ink at
foot of introduction page. Otherwise internally clean. Map present and housed in a
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matching clamshell. Maps have some splitting at folds. All 64 plates in volume present, as is fold-out map that precedes the Johnston Journal.
'Notes of a Military Reconnaissance' came into being from the efforts of the United States Government to
map the unknown parts of America. Emory was a trained engineer and scientist (as well as a competent
explorer and observer), and was a fine candidate for this expedition. According to Henry Wagner: "The
country West of Santa Fe had been crossed by occasional herdsmen and trappers. Parts of it were sketchily
known to the Navajos and to wandering bands of Apaches, but none of it had received a systematic examination by a trained observer". A classic of Western Exploration. Howes E145. Wagner/Camp 148:5.
Wheat 544. Flake/Draper 3165. Fales/Flake 8.
$950
Charles Pruess Map That Brigham Young Followed
144. Fremont, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the
R o c ky Mo u n t a in s in t h e Y e a r 1 8 42 , a nd t o O r e go n a nd N o r t h
California in the Years 1843-44. Washington: Blair and Rives, Printers, 1845.
First edition, House Version. 583pp. Octavo [23 cm] Congressional issued full calf
with red leather label on the backstrip. Large fold-out map by Preuss is present, and
bound in at center. Sporadic foxing and light wear to extremities of text block. Minor
offsetting to extremities of pastedowns and endsheets. Index bound in at front of volume.
Bound in with the Fremont report is the House of Representatives Appropriations bill for 1845. Also,
bound in is the David Dale Owen report: Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois,
made under Instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, In the Autumn of the
Year 1839. Three of the fold out plates, and the fold-out map are hand tinted.
John Fremont's expeditions of 1842 and 1843-44 were the most spectacular reconnaissance of the American
West since Lewis and Clark. Performed under the auspices of the Army Bureau of Topographical
Engineers, the expedition's published reports and maps brought a factor of dependability and trustworthiness that would aid American settlement of the West. Important work on the exploration of the west, with
the hard-to-find map. Fremont's report and the accompanying Preuss map were the most detailed observations and maps of the western territories at the time. The country covered by the report was previously terra
incognito. Brigham Young is said to have used both the report and the map as a guide in bringing the
Mormon people West. Utah was then part of Mexico and would first become Deseret and then Utah territory. One of the seminal works for any western or Utah collector. Howes F372. Wagner/Camp 115:1.
Sabin 25845. Scallawagiana 29. Wheat 497.
$3,500
Scarce Laura Gilpin Items
145. [Gilpin, Laura]. The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1929. Colorado Springs,
CO: Dentan Printing Company, 1929. [24pp.] Octavo [24 cm] Tan wrappers with a
black and white copy of a landscape painting affixed to front panel. Title printed in
black on front panel. Very good. Light overall discoloring to covers. Internally fine.
Promotional item for Colorado College's Broadmoor Art Academy. Photographs by the Colorado native,
Laura Gilpin. Scarce early work from the acclaimed photographer.
$150
146. Gilpin, Laura. Enduring Navaho. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press,
1973. First Edition. 264pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Green cloth with title printed in silver
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on the backstrip. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. Near fine/Fine. Light rubbing to
corners of jacket. Signed and dated (in the year of publication) by the author in black
ink on the half title.
$300
147. Gilpin, Laura. The Indian Arts Fund Collection. Santa Fe, NM:
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1970. Twelve loose black and white images by Laura
Gilpin. All twelve images are of Pueblo pottery. Housed in an orange sleeve with
printed title on cover. Images measure 31 cm by 24 cm. All images and sleave in fine
condition.
A nice collection of photographs suitable for framing, from the renowned Western photographer.
$150
148. Gilpin, Laura. Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado Springs: The Gilpin
Publishing Company, 1927. First edition. [24pp.] Octavo [28 cm] Light green string
bound wrappers with title and image on front panel printed in dark green. Near fine.
Gentle bumping to extremities with very subtle rubbing at corners.
Fifteen black and white halftone plates (most full page). Cover design by George William Eggers. Scarce
early Gilpin title. A very nice copy of a delicate book. A significant book by a pioneering photographer of
the American West.
$.500
149. Gilpin, Laura. The Pikes Peak Region. Colorado Springs, CO: The Gilpin
Publishing Company, 1926. First Edition. [20pp.] Octavo [28 cm] Light blue string
bound wrappers with title and image on front panel printed in dark blue. Near fine.
Short [1 cm.] closed tear at head of front panel. Subtle bumping to extremities. Four
very small spots on front panel, almost imperceptible.
Fifteen black and white halftone plates (most full page). Tissue guards between images. Cover design by
Dean Babcock. Scarce, self-published work from the renowned Western photographer.
$500
150. Sandweiss, Martha A. Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace. Fort Worth,
TX: Ammon Carter Museum, 1986. First Edition. 339pp. Folio [32 cm] Tan linen
with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near fine/Fine. Minor fading to spine of jacket.
Index. Bibliography. 126 full-page black and white plates. Inscribed by the compiler
in black ink on the half-title. Inscription reads: "For ________ - with all best wishes - Marni Sandweiss". Laura Gilpin photographed the American Southwest for more
than sixty years, creating an extraordinary document of the land and its people.
$100
151. Hafen, LeRoy R. Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West:
Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subject and with
Introduction by the Editor (ten volume set). Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark
Company, 1965-1972. First editions. 397, 401, 411, 397, 401, 407, 392, 394, 420, 359 pp.
Octavos [24.5 cm] Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles on all backstrips. Includes
the index and bibliography volume (10). Illustrated with photographs. All volumes
are fine in like original brown shipping jackets. Includes two (identical) prospectus's
of this set
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This set was Dr. Hafen's final major work on the west. Hafen had assembled a vast collection of source
material, and with the help of a cast of scholars and history buffs completed this monumental work of every
major figure of the fur trade in the West.
According to Clark & Brunet: "The account of the fur trade written by Dr. Hafen and included in Volume
I provides an excellent background study of the development of the fur trade". This set is highly sought after,
and unheard of in this beautiful condition. Clark & Brunet 108 [#123 in the second edition]
$2,500
Yellowstone Exploration
152. Hayden, Ferdinand Vandiveer. Sixth Annual Report of the United States
Geological Survey of the Territories, Embracing Portions of Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming, and Utah; Being A Report of Progress of the Explorations for the Year
1872 [Yellowstone]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. 844pp. Octavo
[23 cm]Original black cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Very good. Volume
has been rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Library mark removed from bacsktrip. Light bumping to corners. Contemporary gift inscription in ink on the front
free endsheet. Original black cloth with gilt title to the spine. Small library stamps on
the reverses of the folding maps. Internally clean.
All folding maps and plates present. A major work on the exploration of the West. Hayden and his team
were some of the first European-Americans (outside a handful of trappers) to document one of the true natural wonders of the world. This represents the first coordinated effort to explore what came to be known as
Yellowstone.
$300
153.
[Haynes, Frank]. Yellowstone Post Card Album. Haynes Photo,
[c.1920's]. Quarto [28 cm] Gray wrappers with "Yellowstone - Postcard - Album Haynes" printed on the front panel. Book contains 68 haynes postcards that have
been mounted two to a page. Half are in full color. Twelve postcards missing with
small blemishes on the corresponding pages. Frank Haynes was known as the unofficial park photographer. His shop did brisk business for 83 years. Haynes is also known
as the author of the Haynes guide to Yellowstone.
$150
Monumental History of the Blackfoot Tribe
154.
Hungry Wolf, Adolf. Blackfoot Papers. Skookumchuck, B.C.: Good
Medicine Cultural Foundation, 2006. Limited edition, #51/400. ISBN: 0-92069876-X. 1524pp. Oblong octavo [26 cm] Full calf. Profusely illustrated with 60,000
photographs. Volume One: Pikunni History and Culture. Volume Two: Pikunni
Ceremonial Life. Volume Three: Pikunni Portfolio. Volume Four Pikunni
Biographies. New.
Signed by the author on the limitation page. Exhaustive in its scope this is a monumental work that has
been forty-four years in the making. The Blackfoot papers represent a major addition to the annals of
North American History and ethnology. This is one of the most anticipated histories of a single tribe ever
produced, and an absolute must for the collector or institution that collects histories of the tribes of the
North American continent. These massive volumes represent the author's lifetime of living and researching traditional Native American ways.
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"When I started this project in 1962, it was planned as a memorial to a culture that everyone
thought was dying out. Revival of Blackfoot culture since then has turned this work into a handbook for
those struggling to keep alive Blackfoot heritage and culture for the future." - Adolf Hungry-Wolf.
$1,500
Steam Boating Up the Colorado River
155. Ives, Joseph Christmas. Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored
in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers,
Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys,
Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge. By Order of the Secretary of War.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. 36th Congress, 1st Session.
131+14+154+30+[7]+31 pp. (in five parts with appendices). Quarto [29.5 cm] Modern
leather spine with original black cloth on boards. Gentle offsetting throughout. Both
maps present at front of volume.
This is the first book to deal with the Colorado River specifically. The Ives report is also one of the first
descriptions of the Grand Canyon (Big Canon of the Colorado), and of the area's native inhabitants. Ives
expedition predated John Wesley Powell's expedition by a decade. Complete with all plates, maps, wood cuts
and panoramic views. Includes seven colored plates of the Indians of the southwest. "...the report is one of
the most desirable books in the Colorado River field" - Francis P. Farquhar. Howes I94. Wagner/Camp
375. Wheat 947-948. Farquhar 21
$2,000
Signed Robert Redford Butch Cassidy Book
156. Kelly, Charles. Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and his
Wild Bunch: Hole-in-the-Wall, Brown's Hole, Robber's Roost. Salt
Lake City: Privately printed, 1938. First edition, 1/1000. 337 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]
Publisher's red striated buckram with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip.
Gilt stamped cowboy on front board. Near fine with very subtle rubbing to corners.
Internally fine.
Signed by the author on the front free endsheet. Charles Kelly's colorful bookplate laid in. History of one
of the most notorious group of outlaws the West has ever produced, The Wild Bunch. Profusely illustrated with maps, photographs and illustrations. Pictorial endsheet maps of Hole-in-the-Wall, Robber's Roost,
Brown's Hole and the Outlaw Trail from Canada to Mexico. Adams 590. Howes K58
$500
40th Parallel Survey of the West - Clarence King
157. King, Clarence. United State Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870-1880. First edition. Seven volumes plus the atlas accompanying Vol. III, on Mining Industry by J. D. Hague
(includes 14 plates of maps, sections, and illustrations). First Editions. Quarto
[30cm.] Very Good. 202 plates with the majority produced by Julius Bien. 13 maps,
tables (some folding), 40 woodcut figs., indexes. Volumes IV and V are in half
leather binding, spines and corners with gilt titles on spines; marbled pastedowns,
endsheets and page edges. All other volumes original green cloth with gilt titles on
spines. Volume I clean. Volume III has a bookplate on front pastedown; near fine
internally, plates have no evidence of foxing. Minor rubbing to spine of Vol. IV corners worn; internally fine. Vol. V has rubbing to spine, corners exposed; internally
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near fine excepting p. 317 which is printed crooked with a vertical tear approx. 2" near
bottom center of page; Vol. VI has slight losses to head and foot of spine, corners
bumped, exposed; very good internally with little to no foxing of plates. Vol. VII has
spine detached along rear edge, but still attached at front edge. Some plates have
small pinholes in either the upper or lower corners, does not affect image. Internally
very good with plates having little or no foxing. Overall a nice set. Volumes include:
Vol. I: Systematic Geology by Clarence King (1878); Vol. II: Descriptive Geology by
A. Hague and S. F. Emmons (1877); Vol. III: Mining Industry by J. D. Hague
(with atlas) (1870); Vol. IV: Paleontology and Ornithology by Meek, Hall, Whitfield,
and Ridgway (1877); Vol. V: Botany by Sereno Watson, et al., (1871);
Vol. VI, Microscopical Petrography by F. Zirkel (1876) and Odontornithes by O. C.
Marsh (1880).
Four major geological surveys of the western United States took place in the years following the Civil War.
The first of these major surveys took place in 1867 under the direction of Clarence King (1842-1901). King,
a graduate of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, was only 25 years old when he was appointed Geologist in
charge of the exploration along the 40th Parallel, which spanned from Eastern Colorado to California.
This was one of the first expeditions to use the medium of photography to capture images and activities of
the expedition. Timothy O' Sullivan (1840-1882), known for his images of the Civil War, was the photographer for the King survey. His photographs were subsequently reproduced in lithograph form by Julius
Bien for inclusion in the published volumes reporting on the expedition. The plates of this set of volumes
are in exceptional condition. Many of Sullivan's original photographs from the 40th Parallel expedition
are now in the collection of The George Eastman House in New York and are a unique archive depicting
the American West. In 1879, the United States Geological Survey was established and appointed Clarence
King its first director. In 1881, King resigned this position to pursue other scientific interests leaving John
Wesley Powell (1834-1902) as his successor.
$6,500
158. Marquis, Thomas B. Memoirs of a White Crow Indian (Thomas H.
Leforge). New York: Century Company, March, 1928. First Edition. 356pp. Octavo
[19 cm] Orange cloth. Fine/Near fine. Minor discoloring to spine of jacket. Subtle
chipping to corners.
Biography of a man who lived with the Crow for six decades. Scarce in jacket.
$300
Scarce Mesa Verde Monograph
159.
Nordenskiold, Gustaf. Ruiner af Klippboningar I Mesa Verde's
Canons [The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde]. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt
& Soners Forlag, 1893. First Edition. 193pp. Folio [37 cm] Original maroon cloth with
decorative blind stamped borders to front and backstrip. Photo gravure. Title gilt
stamped on backstrip. Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners of boards. Subtle fading
to backstrip.
Nordenskiold came to the American southwest in 1891 at the invitation of Richard Wetherill, a local
cattle rancher, who along with Charles Mason is credited with discovering the Mesa Verde ruins. This
collection contains Nordenskiold's notes and images of his travels and excavations in the area. Includes all
seventeen full page plates. These large plates include some absolutely exquisite photo gravures of the ruins,
including the double page centerfold of "The Cliff Palaces". Also includes 159 smaller black and white illustrations. Full page map present at the rear. The earliest scholarly monograph on Mesa Verde. Mesa Verde
comprises some of the most spectacular American Indian ruins in all of North America.
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"I shudder to think what Mesa Verde would be today had there been no Gustaf Nordenskiöld. It is through
his book that the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde became known and his volume might well be called the harbinger of Mesa Verde National Park as we know it today." - Robert Heyder, former National Park
Superintendent
$2,000
160.
Poe, John D. Death of Billy the Kid. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1933. First Edition. [i-xl + 60pp.] Sextodecimo [19 cm] Brown cloth with
red stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Closed tear to
head of jacket's front panel. Discoloration to corners of jacket from tape on the
reverse. Illustrated.
Account of the death of William Bonney, aka "Billy the Kid", by a deputy of Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Introduction by Maurice Garland Fulton. "This is one of the best accounts of the killing of the Kid, and
the introduction by Mr. Fulton, one of the best living authorities on this aspect of New Mexican history,
greatly enhances the value of the book." - Ramon F. Adams. Six Guns 775.
$200
Signed by Cowboy Bob
161. Redford, Robert. Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1978. First edition. 223pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan cloth.
Illustrated with photographs by Jonathan Blair. Index. Near fine/Very good. Subtle
nicking to corners of jacket. Three short, closed tears to foot of jacket's cover.
Signed and dated "Oct ' 78" by the author and noted activist on the front free endsheet.
$300
162.
Schoolcraft, Henry R. Journal of A Tour Into The Interior of
Missouri and Arkansaw, From Potosi, or Mine a Burton, in Missouri
Territory, in a South-West Direction, Toward the Rocky
Mountains; Performed in the Years 1818 and 1819. London: Sir Richard
Phillips and Co., 1821. First edition. 102pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 3/4 leather over marbled
boards. Very good. Light rubbing to boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor
sporadic foxing throughout. Map shows light bumping and chipping at extremities.
Folding map present at front of volume. A good copy of this early 19th century exploration report. Wagner/Camp 21. Howes S185. Sabin 77858.
$800
Ken Sleight Rarity
163. Sleight, Ken. Following Powell in Cataract. 1966. [124pp.] Small quarto [28 cm] Original tan wrappers that are reinforced at spine with binder's tape (as
bound). Fine. Self-published mimeograph volume that only has content on the recto
sides of the leaves. Includes a bibliography. Illustrated with nine maps at rear.
Self-published river guide by one of the Colorado River legends, Ken Sleight. Sleight re-creates Powell's trip
down the Colorado giving mileage, and calling out campsites and rapids. Sleight is probably best known for
being the inspiration for Seldom Seen Smith's character in the classic Ed Abbey novel, 'The Monkey
Wrench Gang'.
Powell's 1869 exploration was the first documented expedition to successfully navigate the perilous rapids of
the Colorado River through the uncharted Grand Canyon. The expedition set off in 1869 with ten men
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and four boats under the direction of one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell. After three
months and nearly 1,000 miles, only five of the original party emerged from the depths of the canyon. Their
historic journey mapped the last wild, untamed river of the American West and named the last unknown
regions of American geography.
$300
164. Smead, W.H. Land of the Flatheads: A Sketch of the Flathead
Reservation, Montana; its past and present, its hopes and possibilities
for the future. St. Paul, MN: Pioneer Press Manufacturing Department, 1905.
142pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title and Flathead Indian on
front board. Near fine. Profusely illustrated throughout. Illustration facing Preface
page by Charlie Russell. Howes S565.
$350
165. Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Original Journal of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition 1804-1806: Printed from the original manuscript in the Library of the
American Philosophical Society. New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd., 1959. Full red
cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Eight volumes with atlas volume. 1/750.
$3,500
Gutenberg of Western Cartography
166.
Wheat, Carl I. Mapping the Transmissippi West, 1540-1861. San
Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957. First Edition. Five volumes in six
(Volume Five in two parts). Folio [36.5 cm] 1/4 green publisher's buckram over tan
cloth boards. Titles gilt on backstrips. All volumes very good or better. Front free endsheet clipped at upper corner in volumes one and two. Light rubbing to extremities of
all volumes with some bumped corners. Large bookplate attached to front pastedown
of all volumes.
The definitive work on American cartography, with hundreds of maps (some folding) and corresponding
in-depth descriptions. Volume One designed and printed by the Grabhorn Press. The remaining volumes
printed by Taylor and Taylor in the same style as Volume One. A must for any collector of Western
Exploration. The importance of this set to collectors and cartographers can not be overstated.
Volume One: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase, 1540-1804 (264 pp.) Volume Two: From
Lewis and Clark to Fremont, 1804-1845 (281 pp.) Volume Three: From the Mexican War to the Boundary
Surveys, 1846-1854 (349 pp). Volume Four: From the Pacific Railroad Surveys to the Onset of the Civil
War, 1855-1860 (260 pp.). Volume Five: From the Civil War to the Geological Survey (222, 223-487 pp.)
$3,000
Monumental Wheeler Survey
167. Wheeler, George M. United States Geographical Surveys West of
the One Hundredth Meridian. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1875-1889. First editions. Quarto. Seven volumes--no atlas. Good. 259 plates,
8 maps (7 folding with 5 in color), numerous figs. and tables, indexes; a few plates are
loose, a few minor tears at folds in maps, heliographic plates in Vol. VII foxed.
Original blindstamped maroon cloth with gilt spine; rubbed, minor fraying to head
and feet of spines, many of the hinges are cracked. Vol. I, spine is loose. Vol. IV,
approx. 1 ?" section of binding on top left corner of spine is loose. Volumes II, IV, V,
VII have sunned spines. Several of the volumes have slips with "Compliments of
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George Wheeler" mounted on front pastedowns. Several handwritten signatures of
ownership evident in some volumes. The seven volumes include: Vol. I: Geographical
Report by George M. Wheeler (1889); Vol. II: Astronomy and Barometric
Hypsometry in 2 parts (1877); Vol. III: Geology by various authors (1875, including
supplement 1881); Vol. IV: Paleontology in 2 parts by Charles A. White and E. D.
Cope (1877): Vol. V: Zoology by various authors (1875); Vol. VI: Botany by various
authors (1878); Vol. VII: Archaeology (1879). The lithographs are based on Timothy
O'Sullivan's photographs of the expedition.
Along with: Wheeler, George M. Preliminary Report Concerning Explorations and Surveys Principally
in Nevada and Arizona. Prosecuted in accordance with paragraph 2, Special Orders No. 109, War
Department, March 18, 1871, and letter of instructions of March 23, 1871, from Brigadier General A. A.
Humphreys, Chief of Engineers. 1871. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872. Quarto.
96 pp. Good. First ed. Large folding map of Explorations and Surveys South of Central Pacific R.R. War
Department. Preliminary Topographical Map, by Louis Nell, dated 1871; margins water stained.
Original blind and gilt-stamped dark green cloth; rubbed, inner hinges cracked. Front board loose. Minor
water staining to label at head of spine; bookplate on front pastedown has been removed. This is an early
report of Wheeler's survey of the One Hundredth Meridian.
And with: Wheeler, George M. Progress-report Upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and
Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in 1872, under the direction of Brig. Gen. A. A.
Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, United States Army. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1874. At head of title: Engineer Department, United States Army. Quarto. 56 pp. Very Good. First ed.
Tables, 3 figs., 5 lithographic plates, 1 folding color skeleton map, 2 errata slips bound in. Occasional marginal foxing, damage to outer margin at page 55-56. Original printed wrappers; spine chipped. Slip of paper
with "Compliments of Lieut. George M. Wheeler" mounted inside front cover. Provenance: Ownership
signature of "Prof. J. E. Hilgard, Coast Survey Office" on top of front cover. Julius Erasmus Hilgard
(1825-1891) was a former Superintendent at the United States Coast Survey. Hilgard's publications are
mainly related to geodesy and geophysics.
Between 1871 to 1879, under the jurisdiction of the chief of Engineers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Lt. George M. Wheeler led an expedition to survey the territory west of the One Hundredth Meridian.
The survey's main purpose was to create maps of the area for the establishment of future roads, to record
natural resources and to document the Native American tribes of the area. The expedition covered much
of the western United States including: New Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
Idaho, Wyoming and Texas.
$5,000
168.
Wilkes, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 (five volume set).
Philadelphia, PA: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. First Edition. Five volume set. 434, 476,
438, 539, 558pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Original brown cloth with decorative blind floral
stamping to front and rear boards. Tittles gilt stamped on the backstrip with gilt
stamped anchor. Gilt stamped eagle and shield on front boards. All volumes very good
with some minor wear to boards, particularly at the corners. Light sporadic foxing
throughout. Major Exploration work in nice shape. Lacking atlas volume, otherwise
complete. Howes W414. Sabin 103994
$1,500
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III. Souvenirs
169. [Cigar Box]. Mormon Girl. San Francisco, CA: W. P. & Company. An interesting artifact. The lush illustration on the lid has a portrait of the "Mormon Girl"
flanked on her left by the Salt Lake Temple, and on her right by the Wasatch
Mountains with the Great Salt Lake and the Oquirrh Mountains in the background.
Lithography by George Schlegel of New York. See rear cover of catalogue. Scarce.
$1,500
170. [Grand Army of the Republic]. Grand Army of the Republic Ribbon
with Button. 5 cm by 16 cm. 13th Annual Encampment. Department of Utah.
Grand Army of the Republic Salt Lake City, June 26th, 1895. Fancy white and gold
ribbon with three dimensional embroidered red,white and blue flags on front of ribbon. A colorful pictorial Grand Army of the Republic button is affixed to the bottom
edge of the ribbon. A nice territorial souvenir piece honoring the nation's Civil War
veterans.
$300
171. [Grand Army of the Republic]. Grand Army of the Republic Ribbon
with Cross Bar and Button. 6 cm by 17.5 cm. Grand Army of the Republic fancy
cross bar with pinback affixed at head of two piece white and black ribbon. Wm T.
Sherman Post No. 6. Provo, Utah. Cross bar has red, white and blue streamer which
is attached to a colorful pictorial button depicting three Union soldiers and a cannon
with an American flag waving. Elaborate and colorful souvenir piece from the Grand
Army of the Republic Undated but circa 1900.
$250
172. [Hand Cart Pioneers]. Pinback Button. Hand Cart Pioneers 1856-79-60. 3 cm. circular pin with depiction of Mormon Hand cart couple on front. Circa
1896-1897. Very good condition. Uncommon souvenir issued likely in the late 1890s,
perhaps at the time of the Pioneer Jubilee of 1897 as a souvenir of the Mormon Hand
Cart pioneers of the 1850s.
$300
The Beginnings of Japanese Internment
173. [Japanese Internment]. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 42 (and) Instructions to All Persons
of Japanese Ancestry: Two Original Posters for Sunset Boulevard Area of Los Angeles,
California. Presidio of San Francisco, California: Western Defense Command and
Fourth Army.
Both posters in fine condition. The two posters measure 35.5 cm x 56 cm. Printed on cream colored thin
paper with bold, black ink informing people of Japanese ancestry that they were going to be excluded from:
"All of that portion of the City of Los Angeles, State of California, within that boundary beginning at the
intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vermont Avenue; thence westerly on Beverly Boulevard to Vermont
Avenue; thence northerly on Vermont Avenue to the point of beginning.".
In the first poster they were told to report to the "Hollywood Independent Church, 4525 Lexington
Avenue, Los Angeles, California" on May 6, 1942. The second poster tells of the criminal penalties for not
reporting.
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There were 110 different locations in California, Oregon and Washington where people of Japanese descent
were told to report and two posters were issued for each place. They were printed in a very small run, with
only enough for the posting in each area and two sets of file copies and one set for a California library.
$2000
174. [Utah Indian Wars Veteran]. Utah Indian Wars Veteran Light Green
Ribbon. 3.5 cm. by 15 cm. U.I.W.V State Encampment Aug 14-17 1923. Springville. A
few wrinkles, one short closed tear.
$100
175. [Utah Indian Wars Veteran]. Utah Indian Wars Veteran Pink Ribbon.
5 cm by 18.5 cm. U.I.V.W. State Encampment. Richfield, Utah July 19-22, 1921. Utah
Indian War Veteran. Souvenir ribbon. A few wrinkles, otherwise very good condition.
A nice souvenir ribbon.
$150
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IV. Fine Press
Green Cat Press
The Green Cat Press is a small private press located in Salt Lake City run by artists Susan Makov and
Patrick Eddington. They specialize in original letterpress broadsides in small editions with writers and
artists around the world. They print on archival papers using a Vandercook 219AB cylinder flatbed press.
The Green Cat Press has produced to date 18 broadsides and four letterpress chapbooks. Ken Sanders Rare
Books is the exclusive distributor of the Green Cat Press.
176. Aldiss, Brian W. Cat Improvement Company. Salt Lake City: Green Cat
Press, 2004. Signed Limited edition. 43 cm by 27.5 cm. Broadside. Printed on White
Rives BFK paper. Three color letterpress broadside printed in medium blue, dark
blue and black. Designed and printed by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An
original poem by British author Brian Aldiss. Signed by the author, Brian Aldiss and
the illustrator, Patrick Eddington. Printed in an edition of 85 copies.
$100
177.
Aldiss, Brian W. Juniper. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 1985. Signed
Limited edition. 75 cm by 56 cm. Broadside. Printed on White Rives BFK paper. Two
color letterpress broadside printed in tan and green. Designed and printed by Susan
Makov and Patrick Eddington. A poem by British author Brian Aldiss. Signed by the
author, Brian Aldiss and the illustrator, Patrick Eddington. Printed in an edition of
300 copies.
$100
178. Anaya, Rudolfo. El Gato. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2004. Signed
Limited edition. 49 cm by 26 cm. Broadside. Printed on Cream Rives BFK paper.
Two color letterpress broadside printed in red and black. Designed and printed by
Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An original poem by Southwestern author
Rudolfo Anaya. Signed by the author, Rudolfo Anaya and the award winning, and celebrated illustrator, Gus Arriola. Printed in an edition of 144 copies.
$100
179. Atwood, Margaret. Blackie In Antarctica. Salt Lake City: Green Cat
Press, 2004. Signed Limited edition. 43 cm by 27.5 cm. Broadside. Printed on Cream
Rives BFK:60. Three color letterpress broadside printed in red, mauve and black.
Designed by Susan Makov, printed by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An original essay by famed novelist Margaret Atwood, printed here for the first time. Signed
by the author, Margaret Atwood, along with designer and printer Susan Makov &
Patrick Eddington. Printed in an edition of 85 copies.
$100
180. Atwood, Margaret. Mourning For Cats. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press,
2005. Signed Limited edition. 37 cm by 35 cm. Broadside. Printed on Cream Rives
BFK:60. Three color letterpress broadside printed in gray, green and black. Designed
and printed by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An original poem by Canadian
poet, Margaret Atwood, illustrated by Utah artist Lee Deffebach. This is Deffebach's
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#159. Scarce Mesa Verde Monograph
#173. The Beginnings of Japanese Internment
#97. Large Format C.R. Savage Temple Photograph
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#131. Manifestos Banning Polygamy
from left to right:
Item #’s: 7, sold, sold, 107, 91, sold, 24
#7: 19th Century “Bastard” Book of Mormon
# 107: Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet
#91: A Voice of Warning
#24: Doctrine & covenants
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#134. Scarce, 1853 Brigham Young Signed Letter
#118. History of Salt Lake City
#26. Pioneers & Prominent Men of Utah
See back cover & Item #169. Mormon Girl Cigar Box
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#139. Pacific Railroad Survey Matched Senate Issue
#142. High Spot of Grand Canyon Exploration
#82. Early Copy of Major Work with Reward Notice
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#11. Deseret Alphabet
#81. Navoo Temple Plates
Book of Mormon
#255. Maxfield Parrish Highpoint
#225. Wilderness Letter - Wallace Stegner
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#179. Blackie in Antarctica
#362. Signed Harry Potter
#241. Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog with Stamps
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#252. Original R. Crumb Artwork
#200. A Masterpiece of the Fine Press
#256. Original Artwork from Thunder Cave Creator
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from left to right:
#’s: 324, 396, 342, 351, 332, 292, 367, 352, 393
#324: Other Voices Other Rooms. signed
# 396: Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas.
#342: Old Man and the Sea.
#351: Blood Meridian; Or, The Evening Redness in the West.
#332: Booked to Die.
#292: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.
#367: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
#352: Orchard Keeper
#393: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade:
A Duty-Dance With Death.
from top to bottom:
Item #’s: 210, 207, 215, 206
# 210: Landscapes of the John Muir Trail.
# 207: the Grand Canyon
#215: Wildflowers of the John Muir Trail.
#206: Song of Creation
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last work of art prior to her death in 2005. Signed by the author, Margaret Atwood,
and artist Lee Deffebach.
$100
181. Bradbury, Ray. My Cat has Swallowed a Bumblebee. Salt Lake City:
Green Cat Press, 2003. Signed Limited edition. 42.5 cm by 35 cm. Broadside. Printed
on Cream Rives BFK paper. Two color letterpress broadside printed in ochre and
black. Designed and printed by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An original
poem by legendary writer Ray Bradbury and signed by him. Additionally signed by
the artist, Susan Makov. Printed in an edition of 50 copies.
$100
182. Bradbury, Ray. Once the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals
Few. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2004. Signed Limited edition. 43 cm by 27.5
cm. Broadside. Printed on Newsprint gray Rives BFK paper. Three color letterpress
broadside printed in ochre, olive green and dark brown. Illustrated, printed and
designed by by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An original poem by legendary
writer Ray Bradbury and signed by him. Additionally signed by the artists, Susan
Makov and Patrick Eddington. Printed in an edition of 70 copies. The poem is dedicated to the author's wife.
$100
183. Bradbury, Ray. Their Engines Drive Softly. Salt Lake City: Green Cat
Press, 2003. Signed Limited edition. 75 cm by 45 cm. Broadside. Three color silkscreen broadside printed in yellow, blue and black. Designed and illustrated by Patrick
Eddington. Printed by Apple Screen printing. An original poem by legendary writer
Ray Bradbury and signed by him. Additionally signed by the artist, Patrick Eddington.
$100
184. Bradbury, Ray. With Cat For Comforter. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press,
2003. Signed Limited edition. 50 cm by 30 cm. Broadside. Printed on Somerset Satin
paper. Three color letterpress broadside printed in black and gold. Split edition: 45
copies printed in gold ink. Illustrated, printed and designed by by Susan Makov and
Patrick Eddington. An original poem by legendary writer Ray Bradbury and signed by
him. Additionally signed by the artist, Patrick Eddington.
$100
185.. Bradbury, Ray. With Cat For Comforter. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press,
2003. Signed Limited edition. 50 cm by 30 cm. Broadside. Printed on Somerset Satin
paper. Three color letterpress broadside printed in black and gold. Split edition: 45
copies printed in silver ink. Illustrated, printed and designed by by Susan Makov and
Patrick Eddington. An original poem by legendary writer Ray Bradbury and signed by
him. Additionally signed by the artist, Patrick Eddington.
$100
186. Brewer, Ken. Cat Dander. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2005. Signed
Limited edition. 47 cm by 27 cm. Broadside. Three color letterpress broadside printed in ochre, brown and black. Printed on Cream Rives BFK paper. Designed and
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printed by Patrick Eddington and Susan Makov. Edition of 30 copies. An original
poem by the late Utah poet laureate, Ken Brewer and signed by him. Additionally
signed by the artist and designers, Patrick Eddington & Susan Makov.
$100
187. Fisher, M. K. F. About Cats. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 1991. Signed
Limited edition. 73 cm by 55 cm. Broadside. Screen printed broadside printed in four
colors: yellow, barn red, faded teal blue and black. Printed on white Rives BFK paper.
Designed by Susan Makov and printed by Apple Screen printing. An original poem
written by the famed author for the Green Cat Press prior to her death in 1991, and
signed by her. Additionally signed by noted artist William Willey.
$100
188. Harjo, Joy. In Honor of Mo Who Is Our Cat and We Are Hers. Salt
Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2004. Signed Limited edition. 35 cm by 25 cm. Broadside.
Three color letterpress broadside printed in cream, black and red. Printed on Cream
BFK paper. Edition of 100. Designed by Patrick Eddington and Susan Makov. An
original poem by Native American writer Joy Harjo and signed by her. Additionally
signed by the artist, Marshall Arisman.
$100
189. Hillerman, Tony. The Origin of Jim Chee's Cat. Salt Lake City: Green Cat
Press, 2005. Signed Limited edition. 37.5 cm by 45 cm. Broadside. Printed on Cream
Rives BFK paper. Four color letterpress broadside printed with four plates: pale
green, coral, brown and black. Edition of 60 copies. Designed, printed and illustrated by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. Signed by Tony Hillerman and Eddington
and Makov. An original essay by famed southwestern novelist Tony Hillerman, printed here for the first time.
$100
190. Keeler, Greg. Bad Kitty. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2004. Signed
Limited edition. 40 cm by 47.5 cm. Broadside. Printed on White Rives BFK paper.
Three color letterpress broadside printed in cream red, orange and black. Designed
and printed by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. An original poem by Montana
musician and poet Greg Keeler. Signed by the author, Greg Keeler and the illustrator,
Patrick Eddington and the printer, Susan Makov. Printed in an edition of 100 copies.
$100
191. Lee, David. Idyll: Michael Haydn, Horn Concerto in D Major. Salt
Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2007. Signed Limited edition. 37.5 cm by 30 cm.
Broadside. Printed on Cream Rives BFK paper. Three color letterpress broadside
printed in tan, light blue and black. Designed and printed by Susan Makov and
Patrick Eddington. An original poem by Utah poet, and former laureate, David Lee.
Signed by the author, David Lee and the illustrator, Susan Makov. Printed in an edition of 35 copies.
$100
192. Simic, Charles. Little Unwritten Book. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press,
2005. Signed Limited edition. 47 cm by 25 cm. Broadside. Letterpress broadside
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printed in three colors: tan, olive green and black. Printed on white Rives BFK paper.
Designed and printed by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. Edition of 125 copies.
An original poem written by the famed poet for the Green Cat Press and signed by
him. Additionally signed by noted artist William Willey.
$100
193. Stein, Gary. Cautious Around Cats. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2005.
Signed Limited edition. 41 cm by 28 cm. Broadside. Letterpress broadside printed in
dark brown ink. Printed on Rives BFK paper. Designed and printed by Susan Makov.
Edition of 50 copies. An original poem written by the author for the Green Cat Press
and signed by him. Additionally signed by the artist and designer Susan Makov.
$100
194. Vause, Michael. A Lakeland Walk. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2005.
Signed Limited edition. 53 cm by 34 cm. Broadside. Three color letterpress broadside
printed in light blue, dark blue and red. Printed on Rives BFK paper. Designed and
printed by Susan Makov. Edition of 50 copies. An original poem written by the author
for the Green Cat Press and signed by him. Additionally signed by the artist and
designer Susan Makov.
$100
Green Cat Letterpress Books
195. Doyle, Roddy. Disney. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2003. Signed Limited
edition. Octavo [26 cm] 1/2 dark brown cloth over marbled boards with metal token
attached to front board. An original essay written for the Green Cat Press by Irish
author Roddy Doyle. "She was a mad bastard, that cat". Designed, printed and illustrated by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. Handbound by Susan Makov. Signed
by the author on the colophon page and additionally signed by the artists, printers and
designers on the colophon page.
$200
196. Nooteboom, Cees. Taking Bat to the Vet. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press,
2002. Signed Limited edition. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over decorative
boards with paper label on front board. An original essay written for the Green Cat
Press by the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom. Translation by Ann Kelland. Designed,
printed and illustrated by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. Hand bound by Susan
Makov. Marbled papers by Susan Makov. Signed by the author on the colophon page
and additionally signed by the artists, printers and designers on the colophon page.
$200
197. Nordan, Lewis. Breakdown. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2001. Signed
Limited edition. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over decorative boards with paper
label on backstrip. An original essay written for the Green Cat Press by the author.
Edition of 50 copies. Designed, printed and illustrated by Susan Makov and Patrick
Eddington. Hand bound by Susan Makov. Marbled papers by Susan Makov. Signed by
the author on the colophon page and additionally signed by the artists, printers and
designers on the colophon page.
$200
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198. Williams, Terry Tempest. Nine Cats Nine Lives. Salt Lake City: Green Cat
Press, 2003. Signed Limited edition. Octavo [26.5 cm] An original essay written for
the Green Cat Press by Utah author and naturalist, Terry Tempest Williams. Ms.
Williams writes nine brief essays on various cats in her life from her childhood to the
year 2000. One could speculate that if one were a cat, it might be unlucky to adopt
Ms. Williams. Designed, printed and illustrated by Susan Makov and Patrick
Eddington. Signed by the author on the last page of the essay and additionally signed
by the artists, printers and designers on the colophon page.
$200
199. Doyle, Roddy, Cees Nooteboom, Lewis Nordan & Terry Tempest Williams.
Green Cat Press Set: Disney, Taking Bat to the Vet, Breakdown & Nine
Cats Nine Lives (four volume set). Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2003, 2002,
2001, 2003. Signed Limited editions. Octavos. All volumes 1/2 cloth over decorative
color boards. All four volumes are original essays on cats by the respective authors.
All four are limited editions of sixty except Nordan's Breakdown that was done in a
limitation of fifty. All volumes fine.
Designed, printed and illustrated by Susan Makov and Patrick Eddington. Signed by the author on the last
page of the essay and additionally signed by the artists, printers and designers on the colophon page.
$800
A Masterpiece of the Fine Press
200. Eddington, Patrick & Adrian Van Suchtelen. Cat: A Portfolio of
Original Prints for Mutual Exchange by Artists, Cat Lovers and
Friends of Adrian Van Suchtelen and Patrick Eddington. [Salt Lake
City, UT]: 2006. #27/32. 32 cm. x 23 cm. linen clamshell with paper label on front
panel. All of the prints are #27 of 32 and are separated with tissue guards.
Clamshell contains 32 loose prints by: Scott Allred, Joseph Adams, Jon Anderson, Gary Barton, Edward
Bateman, Susan Beck, Ken Brewer, Trent Call, Royden Card, Noel Carmack, Christy Chambers, Justin
Diggle, Joe Dixon, Stefanie Dykes, Patrick Eddington, Juli Haas, Alan Hashimoto, Paul Heath, Wayne
Kimball, Michael Kirkland, Robert Kleinschmidt, Adam Larson, Susan Makov, Christine Panushka,
Dale Peel, Shawn Skabelund, Bonnie Sucec, Brock Thorne, Cerese Vaden, Adrian Van Suchtelen, Kittie
Alan Yates. Each artist has conceived and produced their own image, in a variety of styles and printmaking methods, from letterpress, silk-screen, digital, hand-colored and other diverse printing and production
methods.
Project conceived by Pat "The Cat" Eddington, that began as an artist exchange. Mr. Eddington collected
art from local artists with a cat theme, and printed a copy for all of the artists. Includes an original poem
by Ken Brewer. The participants read like a who's who of the local art scene. The edition was limited to 32
copies, 31 of which went to the participating artists. None were offered for sale. A truly beautiful and
unique production.
The Green Cat Press is a small, private press located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Owners/printers Patrick
Eddington and Susan Makov are artists doing small edition broadsides and books (usually under 100 copies
in an edition). They have a strong visual approach to producing letterpress broadsides and hand bound
books.
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The Green Cat Press is part of a larger project, "The Cat Project", where literary and visual artists from
around the world have been asked to produce original works of art about cats. This project will eventually
become a traveling exhibition and trade book.
$4,000
Limberlost Press
Limberlost press is a fine press and bindery out of Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued forty-two completely
handmade letterpress editions.
201. Alexie, Sherman. Dangerous Astronomy. Boise, ID: Limberlost Press,
2005. First edition, 1/100. [18pp.] Octavo [26 cm] Black cloth with large paper label
on front board, and a smaller paper label on the backstrip. Fine.
Signed by the author on the limitation page. Cover illustration by Adrian Arleo. A collection of new poems
by Alexie, some of which appear here for the first time. Another great handmade book from Limberlost
Press.
$200
202. Alexie, Sherman. The Man Who Loves Salmon. Illustrated by Charlene
Teters. Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1998. First edition, 1/100. [22pp.] Octavo [24
cm] Black cloth with large illustrated paper label on front board, and a small paper
label on backstrip. Letterpress edition. Fine.
Signed by the author and the artist on the limitation page. Collection of eleven poems. Another attractive
volume from the Limberlost press.
$300
203. Alexie, Sherman. Water Flowing Home. Boise, ID: Limberlost Press,
January,1996. First edition, 1/100. [23pp.] Octavo [24 cm.] Navy blue cloth. Large
paper label on front board and a smaller paper label on the backstrip. Fine.
Signed by the author on the limitation page. The author's first volume of poetry issued by this Idaho hand
press and bindery.
$750
204. Snyder, Gary; Wendell Berry & Carole Koda . Three On Community.
Boise: Limberlost Press, 1996. First edition, 1/100. 66pp. Small octavo [19 cm] Handmade 'Japanese style' sewn wrappers. Housed in a green, cloth folding clamshell with
paper labels on the front board, and on the spine. Scarce.
Signed by all three contributors on the limitation page. An important collection of essays by two of our
finest living writers, Berry and Snyder, and Snyder's wife, Carole Koda. This is one of the most difficult
and desirable Limberlost titles to find.
$750
Peter & Donna Thomas
Since 1976 Peter and Donna Thomas have worked collaboratively and individually, making paper, letterpress printing and book binding, to create books. Under the previous imprint of The Good Book Press, and
the current imprint, Peter and Donna Thomas: Santa Cruz, their books have been shown in individual
and group exhibitions in the USA and abroad, and have been purchased for collections around the world.
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205. Field, Dorothy [Peter & Donna Thomas]. Meditations at the Edge:
Paper and Spirit. Santa Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1996. #98/100. 29pp.
Small narrow quarto [28 cm by 11 cm] Red cloth with plain wood inlay to front board.
Fine. Dorothy Field’s observations of how paper has been used in the Orient to
connect the physical and the spiritual worlds. Four illustrations by the author.
$350
206. Muir, John [Peter & Donna Thomas]. Song of Creation. Santa Cruz, CA:
Peter & Donna Thomas, 1999. #192/500. 6.5 cm. that folds out double pop-up accordion style. Fine. "From form to form, beauty to beauty, ever changing never resting, all
are speeding on with love's enthusiasm, singing with the stars the eternal song of
creation." Muir’s quote is illustrated with a 180 degree panoramic view of Yosemite
Valley. Donna’s original watercolor illustration is color copied on Peter’s handmade
paper.
$75.00
207. Powell, John Wesley [Peter & Donna Thomas]. The Grand Canyon.... Santa
Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2007. 1/50. [10pp.] 7.5 cm that folds out accordion style. Brown paper covered boards varnished to look like wood with paper label
on front board. Fine. "The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech" - John Wesley Powell - Exploring the Colorado, 1875.
This is one of fifty copies produced to celebrate Donna Thomas's fiftieth birthday.
The paper is "duplex", or two sided: the sheet is off white, shaded with umber pigment, and the back has a layer of darker paper pulp with petroglyph-like imagery
onlayed over the surface. It was printed with a red brown rainbow roll, so the ink is
subtly shaded from the top of the page to the bottom, an attempt to visually allude to
the colors of the Grand Canyon. Both the front and the back of the accordion page
are printed with imagery that depicts the elevations of the Grand Canyon. This image
is a duplication of one of the original technical drawing from Powell's book.
$50
208. Roosevelt, Eleanor [Peter & Donna Thomas]. Believe in the Beauty. Santa
Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2007. First Edition, 1/1. One of a kind volume.
13.5 cm by 13 cm. A pop-up "explosion" book with text and a nude water color painting, Bound in full leather with water colored panel attached to the front board. Raised
bands. Housed in a custom clamshell that has water colored labels on the front board
and spine.
When this book is opened, a painting of a reclining nude is revealed. Text overlays the image: "The future
belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." The cover of the book is bound in creamy tan
calf leather, and has a painting inset in the cover. Handmade paste paper and gold bands decorate both the
clamshell box and book.
$495
209. Thomas, Peter. History of Papermaking in the Philippines. Santa
Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2005. #44/75. 40pp. Large oblong quarto [27 cm
by 34 cm] 1/4 red Moroccan over T’nalak boards (a Philippine ikat dyed fabric, made
with twisted abaca fiber, woven on a backstrip loom). Titles blind stamped on backstrip. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Fine. This book presents the information that
was gathered over ten years by Peter & Donna Thomas. The text includes discussions
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of the pre-historic precursors to paper, including Philippine bark cloth. It contains a
survey of the first printed books made in the Philippines and the paper they were
printed on. The book ends with a chronological history of both commercial and hand
paper making in the Philippines up to 2000.
$950
210. Thomas, Peter & Donna. Landscapes of the John Muir Trail. Santa
Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2002. #149/150. [24pp.] 6.5 cm. Folds out accordion style. Bound in green painted handmade paper with a paper slipcase. Fine. From
limitation page: "Donna Thomas and Katy McLaughlin hiked the John Muir trail
together in 2002. Katy did yoga & Donna painted a landscape each day. Donna made
this book using handmade paper by Peter Thomas." The paper for this volume was
handmade from cotton rag and the shirt Donna wore on the trail.
$75
211. Thomas, Peter. Miniature Leaf Books. Santa Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna
Thomas, 2005. #44/126. [28pp.] 7.3 cm Fine. This book describes and defines the leaf
book, tells the history leaf books and then presents three tipped in miniature "leaf"
pages. Each leaf sample and the book it originally came from are described in the text.
These pages are from an early 19th century American Thumb Bible, a Bryce "Ellen
Terry" book and a American Tract Society's Dew Drops.
$75
212. Thomas, Peter & Donna. Paper From Plants. Santa Cruz, CA: Peter &
Donna Thomas, 1999. Limited Edition, #66/150. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 green leather
over green boards with title on backstrip and on a paper label attached to front board.
Housed in a ribbon-tied folding paper case. An impressive presentation.
Thirty samples of handmade paper, each from a different plant, in an elaborate hand sewn binding. Each
sample is accompanied by an illustration and description on the facing page.
$850
213. Thomas, Peter. Papermaking In Seventeenth Century England. Santa
Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1990. #127/200. [58pp.] Sextodecimo [17.5 cm]
Full brown Moroccan with raised bands. Housed in a matching brown cloth slipcase
with a leather label on spine. Fine. The diary entries written by John Evelyn and Celia
Fiennes, recording their visits to paper mills during the late 1600’s, are preceded by
short biographies and accompanied by commentary on the author’s observations.
$250
214. Thomas, Peter & Donna. Spring Wildflower ABC. Santa Cruz, CA: Peter
& Donna Thomas, 2006. #33/150. [28pp.] 7.2 cm that folds out accordion style. Fine.
Twenty-six wildflower paintings, one for each letter of the alphabet. These botanical
watercolor renderings of native flowers found in the California coast range were
painted on site by Donna Thomas. The images are color printed on accordion-folded, handmade paper which Peter made from cotton rag and plant pulp. The book is
case bound in a full paper binding and is painted and decorated with stenciled images
of plants. The paper is all Peter's handmade paper.
$75
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215. Thomas, Peter & Donna. Wildflowers of the John Muir Trail. Santa
Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2002. #85/150. [24pp.] 6.5 cm that folds out
accordion style. Bound in green painted handmade paper with a paper slipcase. Fine.
From limitation page: "Donna Thomas and Katy McLaughlin hiked the John Muir
trail together in 2002. They identified these flowers together & Donna painted them
on the spot. Donna made this book, using handmade paper made by Peter Thomas."
Each illustration is accompanied by common and scientific names, and the location
where it was painted. The paper for this volume was handmade from cotton rag and
the shirt Donna wore on the trail.
$75
Suzanne Thomas
216. Baca, Jimmy Santiago [Suzanne Thomas]. Ancestor. Santa Cruz, CA: 2004.
#7 of 10. Miniature book. [24pp.] [3.5 cm by 9.5 cm] Bound in red cloth with paper
label on front board. Light blue endsheets and pastedowns. Contains the Baca poem
on light orange paper. Illustrated by Suzanne Thomas. Suzanne Thomas is the daughter of the renowned miniature book creators, Peter and Donna Thomas. Fine.
$75
217. Thomas, Suzanne. As I Forgive. Santa Cruz, CA: March, 2007. 7 cm Light
pink paper covered boards that holds an accordion style fold out, that consists of eight
hand colored panels. The reverse of the panels is a lovely hand colored orange. Paste
down is a light blue. Theme of all panels is forgiving and forgiveness. Paper and
boards hand made. Fine.
$95
218. Thomas, Suzanne. Big Sur. Santa Cruz, CA: 2007. 6.5 cm Light brown paper
covered boards that holds an accordion style fold out, that consists of seven hand
colored panels. Paste downs are a light green. Paper label on front board. "These
watercolor paintings were done by Suzanne Thomas on a camping trip in Big Sur. She
bound the book once she got back home" - from the colophon. Attractive little
volume, with charming water colors. Fine.
$75
219. Thomas, Suzanne. Counting with Tools. Santa Cruz, CA: February 10,
2007. #2 of 5. Miniature Book. [7 cm] Light pink paper covered boards that holds an
accordion style fold out, that consists of seven hand colored panels. Paste downs are a
light green. Bound unconventionally with three framing nails.
$75
220. Thomas, Suzanne. ...from Me; to You... Santa Cruz, CA: February, 2007.
[20pp.] 7.5 cm Light pink paper covered boards with paper label on front board. Light
green pastedowns and endsheets. Includes short poem done in pen in ink on five panels (all recto) Paper made by Peter Thomas. "Lines are black and paper is white.
Won't you come over? And have a drink with me tonight". Fine.
$95
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221. Thomas, Suzanne. Just Because I'm Blonde. Santa Cruz, CA: 2006. 7.5 cm.
Light orange paper covered boards with paper label on front board, that holds an
accordion style fold out, that consists of sixteen panels. Fourteen of the panels contain two lines of text over a related image. "Just because I'm blonde, doesn't mean I'm
easy. Just because I'm drunk, doesn't mean I'm yours. Just because I'm a life model,
doesn't mean you can stare. Just because I'm friendly, doesn't mean I want You. Just
because I'm bisexual, doesn't mean we'll have a threesome, Just because I like to kiss,
doesn't mean I'm a whore. Just because I have it pierced, doesn't mean I want you to
feel it. Just because I'm laid back, doesn't mean I don't care. Just because I'm slower,
doesn't mean you better. Just because I'm crying, doesn't mean I'm unstable. Just
because I'm smiling, doesn't mean I'm okay. Just because I did it once, doesn't mean
I'll do it again. Just because I'm Blonde, doesn't mean I'm easy." Fine.
$75
222. Thomas, Suzanne. Santa Cruz ABC's. Santa Cruz, CA: April, 2007. 7 cm.
Light pink paper covered boards that holds an accordion style fold out, that consists
of twenty-eight hand colored panels. The accordion fold outs are on orange paper.
Each panel has a hand colored panel attached. With the exception of the title page
and the colophon, the rest of the panels contain a letter and an illustration. U is for
Ukuleles, aloha. Fine.
$95
223. Thomas, Suzanne. Thy Lips. Santa Cruz, CA: March, 2007. Miniature Book. 6
cm by 9 cm. Bound in hand made paper that is dyed pink and light green with a paper
label attached to the front panel. Volume consists of four leaves that are held together with a wooden peg. There are two envelopes, one each at the verso of the front and
rear cover and both contain paper cards with lip illustrations. Paper hand made by
Peter Thomas. "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better
than wine...Thy lips o my spouse drop as the honey comb: honey and milk are under
thy tongue... And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth
down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." - Song of Solomon.
Fine.
$95
Red Butte Press
The Red Butte Press was established in 1984 when Lewis and Dorothy Allen, premier Bay Area printers
and owners of the Allen Press, offered an 1846 Columbian handpress to the Marriott Library at the
University of Utah. With a commitment to creating finely crafted limited editions, each book is a rigorous
and deeply explored reflection of the content it carries.
224. Morgan, Dale L. Utah. Salt Lake City, UT: Red Butte Press, University of
Utah., 1987. #68/75. Folio [39 cm] Sewn handmade case paper, containing sagebrush
from Utah. The hue of the wrappers is that of fresh sagebrush. Fine. Prospectus laid
in.
Woodcuts by Royden Card. A beautiful production from Red Butte Press. Contains five charming woodcuts from Royden Card, one of Utah's most prominent printmakers. "The state is immense and varied,
almost beyond belief... Utah is many things at once: Utah is green-carpeted vales lying peacefully under the
shadow of the Wasatch; Utah is a wide solitude of rolling dry valleys, with hills marching beyond hills to
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blue horizons; Utah is unearthly white desert; Utah is tall snow-covered mountains; Utah is blue lakes;
Utah is canyon and plateau wonderfully fragrant with pines." - Dale L. Morgan.
$4000
225. Stegner, Wallace. Wilderness Letter. Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press,
University of Utah, 1995. First edition. [56pp.] Thin folio [40 cm] Beautifully bound
in Cottonwood boards sewn in the Coptic style. Foreword by Page Stegner. Five original etchings by Utah artist V. Douglas Snow. Housed in rust colored cloth clamshell
with paper label attached to spine. Edition of 75 copies, with 25 hors commerce.
Signed on colophon "V.D. Snow" and numbered 21 of 75. A beautiful handcrafted
book from the Red Butte Press.
$3500
Other Fine Press Volumes
226. Allen, Harris Stearns. The Trail of Beauty. San Francisco, CA: Lewis &
Dorothy Allen, 1940. Limited Edition, #23/100. 47pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 yellow
cloth over decorative floral boards. Paper label on backstrip. Near fine. Light rubbing
to corners. Paper label faded. Hand-colored frontis illustration has come unglued and
is laid in.
Produced for private distribution. Original colored illustration by William Gaskin. This book designed,
hand-set and hand-printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at their home letterpress in San Francisco. Signed
by the author at the end of his foreword in black pen.
$950
Beloved Volume From Utah Poet Laureate
227. Brewer, Kenneth W. Hoping for All, Dreading Nothing. Woodcuts by
Harry G. Taylor. Logan, UT: Slanting Rain Press, 1993. #24/25. Octavo [24.5 cm]
Beautiful, hand-sewn limp black cloth binding. Clear acrylic slipcase with title in red.
Eight full-page woodcuts, in black, orange and white. Charming letterpress edition.
Signed by the author and the artist on the limitation page. Limitation page states 50
copies, but due to the illustrator's declining health only 25 were finished.
Kenneth W. Brewer was the Utah Poet Laureate and a retired professor of English. Mr. Brewer has had
several volumes of poetry published, as well as hundreds of poems appearing in literary journals and reviews
over the last thirty plus years. A beautifully produced work that is extremely scarce.
$750
228. Jeffers, Robinson. Beaks of Eagles: An Unpublished Poem by Robinson
Jeffers. San Francisco, CA: Privately Printed for Albert Bender by Edwin Grabhorn,
1936. First Edition, 1/135. [16pp.] Large quarto [33 cm] Stitched light orange wrappers
with title printed in black on front panel. Very good. Minor chipping at extremities
with a few small losses. Small discoloration at foot of front panel from tape residue. It
appears that the original wrappers have been rebacked with matching paper wrappers.
This is only noticeable where there are chips (the backing paper is intact). Bookplate
on recto of cover. Small red ink stamp on recto of title page. Includes a three color
wood block portrait of the poet and signed "D.G.", and two facsimile pages of the
manuscript.
$500
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229. Joyce, James. Araby. [Salt Lake City, UT]: 2007. Limited Edition, #30/30.
29pp. Sextodecimo [13.5 cm] Full blue cloth with red highlights. Red endsheets and
pastedowns. Fine.
Seven color linoleum block illustrations. Book was handset in Cheltenham 12 point by Michael SlawinskiCurrier and Danny Kalan with assistance by Alicia Minkel, and printed on a Vandercock SP 15 and
Chandler and Price platen Press. Fine press offering of the third chapter of the widely acclaimed and
revered Joyce classic, The Dubliners.
$150
Hayduke Lives!
230. Peacock, Doug. Walking It Off: Veteran's Chronicle of War and
Wilderness. Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press - Ken Sanders Rare Books,
2005. Hayduke edition. 196pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth with "Hayduke" blind
stamped on front board. Signed by the author on the limitation page. 'Hayduke' illustration by R. Crumb also signed by the author and laid in.
This is the special "Hayduke" edition of the author's memoir about war, wilderness and the late author
Edward Abbey. Abbey immortalized Peacock as the George Washington Hayduke character from the
celebrated novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. R. Crumb rendered Hayduke for the 1985 hardbound edition of The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. This is one of one hundred specially bound and
signed copies by Doug Peacock issued in hardbound by Dream Garden Press. The regular trade edition was
only issued in paperback. This is the only hardbound edition available. A new memoir by the author of
"The Grizzly Years" and the inspiration for the Hayduke character in Edward Abbey's classic "The
Monkey Wrench Gang." Peacock recounts his experiences returning from Viet Nam and his long friendship with Abbey.
$100
231. Peacock, Doug. Walking It Off: Veteran's Chronicle of War and
Wilderness. Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press - Ken Sanders Rare Books,
2005. Hayduke edition. 196pp. Octavo. [22 cm] Half leather over gray cloth boards
with "Hayduke" blind stamped on front board. Signed by the author on the limitation
page. Separate letter press printed 'Hayduke' illustration by R. Crumb laid in and
signed by the artist, Robert Crumb. This is one of 26 signed limited editions bound
in half leather, signed by both author and illustrator.
This is one of twenty six specially bound and signed copies by Doug Peacock , with a letter press printed
R. Crumb rendition of Hayduke, signed by the famed artist especially for this edition. The regular trade
edition was only issued in paperback. This is the only hardbound edition available. A new memoir by the
author of "The Grizzly Years" and the inspiration for the Hayduke character in Edward Abbey's classic
"The Monkey Wrench Gang." Peacock recounts his experiences returning from Viet Nam and his long
friendship with Abbey.
$300
232. Pereira, Irene Rice. The Nature of Space. New York: Privately printed by
the Thistle Press, 1956. First Edition, 150. 62pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 yellow cloth over
gray marbled boards. Fine. This copy is number eight of fifty signed and numbered
copies. Signed on the limitation page. This limited edition also contains an original
water color tipped in before the half-title.
$500
233. [Thomas, Frank J.]. Hobo's Code Book. Los Angeles: Tenfingers Press,
[c.1970]. #26/55. [22pp.] Sextodecimo [13.5 cm] Bound in cottonwood boards. Fine.
Charming, fine press volume that contains graffiti by Frank J. Thomas.
$150
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V. Art, Illustrated &
Children’s Books
234. Celant, Germano [Joel Peter Witkin]. Witkin. New York: Scalo, 1995. First
edition. 272pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Black cloth. Fine/Fine.
Boldly signed and dated by the renowned photographer on the half-title. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Bizarre, Tragic, Heartbreaking, Beautiful.
$350
235. Chattington, Sir Basil [Kostabi, Mark]. Kalev Mark Kostabi: The Early
Years. New York: Vanity Press, 1990. First edition. 524pp. Folio [37.5 cm] Red cloth.
Profusely illustrated. Fine/Near fine. Signed by the author on the title page. Massive
tome by, and about, one of the best at self-promotion and aggrandizing.
$250
Original DePuy Painting
236. DePuy, John. Wolf Man Series III. 98 cm by 102 cm. Oil on Canvas. Oil painting by Southwestern Painter John DePuy. DePuy was one of the late author Edward
Abbey's oldest and closest friends. They first met in New Mexico in the 1940's and
used to burn down billboards together in their desert beautification attempts. Abbey
immortalized DePuy in an essay he wrote about DePuy entitled "My friend Debris".
This painting was used as a postcard for a DePuy show in Bisbee, Arizona in the early 1980's which included an Abbey quote. Abbey owned a large DePuy painting entitled Black Sun, which is likely where he
obtained the title of his novel of the same name. The Wolfman series was one of DePuy's most popular
series.
"In my opinion he is one of the best - perhaps the very best - of the contemporary American landscape
painters, a worthy heir to the tradition of Marin, Hartly and Georgia O'Keefe" - Edward Abbey.
$1500
237. Fisher, Harrison. Bachelor Belles. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company,
1908. First Edition. [128pp.] Quarto [28 cm] Full gray cloth with a decorative illustrated label that covers the entire front board. Title decoratively gilt stamped on the
backstrip. Top edge gilt. Decorative endsheets and pastedowns. Page decoration by
Theodore B. Hapgood. Near fine. Subtle foxing to label on front board. Gentle sporadic foxing throughout. Twenty-two full-color full-page plates illustrate the text.
The text consists of thirty-eight poems by contemporary writers.
$150
238. Hagerty, Donald J. Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard
Dixon. Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1993. Limited
Edition, 1/300. 272pp. Quarto [32 cm] Tan linen cloth spine and boards. Fine/Fine.
Signed by the author in black felt pen on the free front endpaper. Laid in is a broadside of Maynard Dixon's
poem, "Totem," designed, handset, and printed on fine paper by Karla Elling at Mummy Mountain Press.
Handsome gallery of Dixon's artwork, much of which is presented in full color on a high quality clay coated stock. Housed in a cloth slipcase.
$300
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Limited Signed Arthur Rackham
239. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Wonder Book. London: Hodder and Stoughton,
[1922]. Limited signed edition, #167/600. 206pp. Quarto [29 cm] White cloth with
decorative gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Gilt stamped portrait of
two children and an imp on front board. Near fine. Minor rubbing and discoloring to
white boards. Housed in a red cloth slipcase.
Signed by the renowned illustrator, Arthur Rackham, on the limitation page. Classic Hawthorne collection illustrated with twenty-four beautiful full color illustrations from Rackham. Sixteen of the color illustrations are tipped in. Twenty black and white illustration, also by Rackham.
$2500
240. Hyde, Laurence. Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas. Los
Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. First Edition. Duodecimo [18 cm] 1/4 red cloth
over black boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Silhouette woodcut in red on front
board. Near fine. Minor fading to extremities.
Signed by the author and illustrator on the contents page in blue ink. Introduction be Rockwell Kent.
Charming work composed entirely in woodcuts, and reminiscent of Masereel & Ward.
$350
Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog with Stamps
241. Kelly, Walt. Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.
First Edition. 95 pp. Octavo [21 cm] Puce colored illustrated wrappers. Near fine.
Light rubbing to extremities.
Includes a sheet of original Puce Stamps "Big Zero, Absolutely Guaranteed Worthless". Quite scarce with
the Puce Stamps. "Puce Stamps are the only completely Worthless trading stamps! This catalog guarantees
to deliver none of the worthless items mentioned herein! Only Puce Stamps can make that claim! However!
There are a few promises we here at Puce Stamps can keep...(and you may agree we can keep them."
$750
Limited Signed Will Pogany
242. Khayyam, Omar [Will Pogany]. The Rubaiyat. London: George G. Harrap
& Company. #390 of 525. Quarto [29 cm] Red Suede yapp binding with decorative
gilt stamped titles and borders. Satin moire endsheets and pastedowns. Very good.
Some bumping to extremities (which is to be expected with these bindings) with
some minor losses at corners. Cosmetic splitting to front hinge.
Signed by Pogany on the limitation page. Charming production of this literary classic that includes twenty
four tipped in plates that are in full color form the renowned illustrator, Will Pogany.
$750
243. Malory, Thomas. Story of Elaine, The Lily Maid of Astolat. From the
Arthurian Legends Collected by Sir Thomas Malory, and Later Writers. London: E.
Moxon, Son, and Company. 156pp. Folio [34.5 cm] Brown cloth with black stamping
to front board. Decorative blind stamping to rear board. Title gilt stamped on front
board. Title stamped in black on backstrip. All edges gilt. Very good. Light rubbing
corners. Sporadic foxing throughout.
This collection of Arthurian tales are beautifully illustrated with nine full page steel engravings, by the master illustrator, Gustave Dore.
$400
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Original Frans Masereel
244. Masereel, Frans. Original Wood Cut [Crowded Street Scene]. Signed
Original wood cut by renowned artist Frans Masereel. Image measures 15.5 cm by 11.5
cm. Image is within a white border. Leaf measures 24 cm by 18.5 cm. Masereel has
signed the leaf below the image in pencil. Minor professional restoration on right
edge, otherwise fine. Original work by one of the masters of the woodcut technique.
$600
245. Masereel, Frans. Original Wood Cut [River Scene with Windmill].
Signed original wood cut by renowned artist Frans Masereel. Image measures 15.5 cm
by 11.5 cm. Image is within a white border. Leaf measures 24 cm by 18.5 cm Masereel
has signed the leaf below the image in pencil. Minor professional restoration on right
edge, otherwise fine. Original work by one of the masters of the woodcut technique.
$600
Original G.M. Ottinger Oil Painting
246. Ottinger, George Marion. Twentieth Ward School House. 16.5 inches
by 11 inches. Original oil painting by noted 19th century landscape artist George
Marion Ottinger.
20th Ward School House. Signed with Ottinger's trademark "GMO" in lower right hand corner.
Ottinger once taught art classes in this historic Mormon schoolhouse, originally built in the 1850s and torn
down long ago. The 20th Ward School House once occupied the corner of 2nd Avenue and between D & E
Street in Salt Lake's historic Avenues district, where Lowell School currently resides. A highly desirable
Utah landscape and historical LDS building by one of Utah's most sought after 19th century painters.
$15,000
247.
Nückel, Otto. Destiny: A Novel in Pictures. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart, Incorporated, 1930. First Edition. Square octavo [20 cm] Red cloth with
black printed titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine. Minor sunning to the
backstrip.
Nückel's classic story is told entirely through a collection of striking images, presented in a storytelling tradition that anticipates the work of Lynd Ward and Franz Masereel
$200
248. [Paper Design]. Constructive Cover Designing: A Book of Seventysix Original Designs Reproduced in Color on Sunburst Cover Paper.
Holyoke, MA: Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Company, 1923. [178pp.] Large
quarto [33 cm] 3/4 leather over brown boards with gilt stamped title on front board
and backstrip. Very good. Light rubbing to extremities, more so at bumped corners.
Small bookplate on front pastedown that is partially covering a name in ink.
Introduction by Frank Randolph Southard. Following the introduction is an index to the plates and a
"Descriptive Contents: For the Aid of Printers". 76 full page plates, most in color.
$950
249. Patri, Giacomo. White Collar: A Novel in Linocuts. [San Francisco,
CA]: [c.1940]. First Edition. Quarto [27 cm] Black wrappers with title printed in
white on backstrip, and illustration printed in white on front panel. Very good. Light
overall fading to wrappers. Minor rubbing to rear panel. A few subtle creases to center on front panel. Bookplate attached to front free endsheet. Introduction by
Rockwell Kent. Afterword by John L. Lewis.
A classic from the Great Depression much in the style of early Ward or Masereel. First published private78
ly just prior to World War II, White Collar has remained a biting critique of the powers that be, and at
the same time championing the working class.
"White Collar was to be my contribution to, what I believed then, an indispensable understanding of the
necessity of unity among all American workers and voters. I was not a writer, so illustrations in sequence
were I thought the answer." – Petri.
$400
250. Pereira, Irene Rice. The Nature of Space. New York: Privately printed by
the Thistle Press, 1956. First Edition, 150. 62pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 yellow cloth over
gray marbled boards. Fine. This copy is number eight of fifty signed and numbered
copies. Signed on the limitation page. This limited edition also contains original
water color tipped in before the half-title.
$500
Signed Limited Edmund Dulac
251. Poe, Edgar Allan. Bells and Other Poems. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Limited Edition, 1/750 (out of series). [250pp.] Large quarto [31.5 cm] White vellum
with decorative gilt stamping to front board and backstrip. Gilt stamped titles on
front board and backstrip within gilt border. Near fine. Minor bowing to boards (as
usual). Light rubbing to corners. Subtle yellowing to extremities of pages. Faint offsetting from sepia-toned illustrations.
Signed by the master illustrator, Edmund Dulac on the limitation page. Collection of Poe poems illustrated with twenty-eight beautiful full-color illustrations from Dulac, all tipped in with labeled tissue guards.
Ten small sepia-toned illustrations as headers to some poems.
$2,000
Original R. Crumb Artwork
252. R. Crumb. "T
The Steam Spiraled Up from the Coffee...." Original
Monkey Wrench Gang Art. 1984. The original pen and ink artwork for the cult
classic The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey. Signed "R. Crumb, 84" in the
lower right corner. The illustration measures 32.5 cm. by 26.5 cm. and is matted and
framed. The frame measures 47 cm by 41 cm. The original illustration is in fine condition.
The work is of George Washington Hayduke, and his adversaries from the San Juan County Search and
Rescue team: Bishop Love, and Love's younger brother, being served cover by a Navajo waitress at the
counter of the Mexican Hat Cafe. The full title is "The steam spiraled up from the coffee in the shape of a
question mark. The question was not the practical one - are they armed?..... The question was: Will the
sphincter hold till I get out of here free and clear?"
One of approximately two dozen original drawings that Dream Garden Press commissioned legendary sixties icon and Zap Comix pioneer, R. Crumb to illustrate the tenth anniversary edition of Edward Abbey's
equally legendary novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang published in 1985. Abbey's novel has now sold over
one million copies and has become, along with Desert Solitaire, what the late author always dreaded, "a
classic". The Monkey Wrench Gang inspired the real life radical environmental group, Earth First! and
inspired countless other individuals and groups to defend the wilderness. R. Crumb, from his humble beginnings as a greeting card artist in Kansas City, an unlikely sixties icon from his work in Zap Comix, went
on to create Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and is now collected by museums and galleries across the globe. He
was the subject of the Terry Zwigoff documentary Crumb (1994), and shortly thereafter, traded a sketch79
book of original drawings for a chateau in France, where he has lived with his family ever since. A rare
opportunity to own both an R. Crumb original and a Monkey Wrench Gang classic.
$12,000
253. Richmond, Leonard (ed.). Technique of the Poster. London: Sir Isaac
Pitman & Sons, Limited, 1933. First Edition. 207pp. Quarto [28 cm] Tan cloth with
titles printed in orange and black. Near fine. Subtle rubbing to boards. Short contemporary gift inscription in ink on front free endsheet.
115 plates (most in color) illustrate this volume. This is one of the classic works on the history of the modern poster by the well-known English graphic artist, Leonard Richmond.
$400
Signed Mark Ryden
254. Ryden, Mark. Anima Mundi. [San Francisco, CA]: Porterhouse Fine Art
Editions, 2001. First Edition. 134pp. Small quarto. [26 cm] Full color illustrations over
black boards. Fine.
Signed and dated by the eclectic artist on the half title. Ryden's style is morbid Margaret Keane, with the
flash of Robert Williams for the postmodern hipster. Scarce signed.
$750
Maxfield Parrish Highpoint
255. Saunders, Louise. Knave of Hearts. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. 46 pp. Folio [35.5 cm] Black cloth
with full color illustration on front board. Very good plus. Minor scuffing to rear
board, rear hinge condition is worse.
The author was the wife of the legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins. Beautifully illustrated with
fifteen full-page illustrations, and eight smaller illustrations - all in full color. Full-color illustrations on the
endsheets and pastedowns. This volume shows Maxfield Parrish at the height of his abilities. A definite high
point in the Golden Age of illustration, and one of the greatest illustrated books ever. This is THE Parrish
item.
$2250
Original Artwork from Thunder Cave Creator
256. Sears, Jack. Fantasy Fish. Original artwork from the Utah artist and illustrator. Work is oil on canvas and measures 27 cm. by 21 cm. Frame measures 38 cm. by
31 cm. Work is in fine condition and his signed the lower left corner.
Jack Sears is best known for his imaginative illustrations for the beloved Utah children's book, 'Thunder
Cave', a cross between the Wizard of Oz and Little Black Sambo. The painting is of two fish standing, one
is wearing a tuxedo, and carrying a book under his fin. The other is wearing a jaunty suit and is carrying
a cane under his fin. A charming fantasy piece from this beloved Utah artist.
Jack Sears (1875-1969) was a Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News man and a former J.T. Harwood student. Longtime college and friend Mahonri Young and John Held, Jr. Sears taught at the University of
Utah's art department for many years, and who's work was recognized throughout the country for his
work in many newspapers and magazines.
$2000
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257.
Stokes, Jeremiah. Thunder Cave: The Thrilling Adventures of
Giant Wigwah and the Two Little Colored Boys, Jasper and Zebbie.
Told in Twenty-one Fascinating Episodes of Sparkling Humor and Gripping Mystery.
Illustrated by Jack Sears. New York: Thunder Cave Corporation, 1932. First edition.
278pp. Octavo [25 cm]. Blue cloth with illustrated front board. Good plus. Backstrip
faded, head of backstrip bumped and starting to fray with one small closed tear, corners rubbed through, rear board faded, hinges shaky.
Thunder Cave has been described as "The Wizard of Oz meets Little Black Sambo" Blackface, savage
Indians and racial stereotypes were the order of the day. Fantastically illustrated by Jack Sears. First serialized in Grandma Betty's Kiddie Rhymes. Stokes and Sears founded the Thunder Cave Corp. to make their
fortune and envisioned an empire of merchandizing spinoffs and coast to coast marketing. The reality was
other than the book, and for a time, a local radio show, nothing else ever materialized.
$500
258.
Stokes, Jeremiah. Thunder Cave: The Thrilling Adventures of
Giant Wigwah and the Two Little Colored Boys, Jasper and Zebbie.
Told in Eighteen Fascinating Episodes of Sparkling Humor and Gripping Mystery.
Illustrated by Jack Sears. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft Company, 1945. Second
Edition. 220pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth over red illustrated boards. Very good.
Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Color frontis missing lower right corner.
Otherwise clean, and free of names or handwriting.
$250
Signed Maurice Sendak
259. Wilder, Alec [Sendak, Maurice]. Lullabies and Night Songs. New York:
Harper & Row, Publishers, [c.1965]. 77pp. Folio [33.5 cm] Illustrated boards. Near
fine/Fine. Jacket is price clipped and has a small discoloring to rear panel.
Signed and dated by the illustrator on the front free endsheet. The forty-eight melodies Alec Wilder has contributed are beautifully complemented by Maurice Sendak's distinctive full-color drawings. Many of the
verses chosen by William Engvick had never been set to music before the composer created these melodies
for them.
$500
260. Krauss, Ruth [Sendak, Maurice]. A Hole Is To Dig: A First Book of
First Definitions. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper & Row
Publishers, 1952. [48pp.] Sextodecimo [17 cm] 1/4 black cloth over green illustrated
boards. Fine/Fine. This lovely children's book is illustrated by Maurice Sendak and
Signed by Sendak on the title page.
$200
Signed Dr. Seuss
261.
Dr. Seuss. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. New York:
Vanguard Press. Later printing. Quarto [30.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth with black illustrated
boards. Fine/Near fine. Jacket price clipped. Signed by the good doctor on the verso
of the front free endsheet.
$750
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262. Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat. [New York]: Random House, [1957]. First
edition. 61pp. Quarto [24 cm] First edition, first issue dust jacket. With full color
illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards, end sheets and dust jacket. A block of .37
cent commemorative Seuss postage stamps is laid-in. Dust jacket is slightly darkened
along edges and spine, some rubbing and chipping. An approximately 1" tear and
some creasing to the top of the front panel. Previous owner’s name in ink on the front
pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A true first edition of a favorite Dr.
Seuss book. Younger/Hirsch 7.
$5,000
263. Dr. Seuss. On Beyond Zebra. New York: Random House, 1955. Probable
first edition. [68pp.] Quarto [28.5 cm] Glazed illustrated boards. Very good/Very
good. Corners of jacket chipped with minor losses. Head and foot of jacket's rear
panel bumped with some creasing. Jacket price clipped. Corners of boards bumped
and rubbed. Small yellow square on half-title (probably from a small piece of acidic
paper that was used as a bookmark.
Matches all the points from Younger-Hirsch but 250 price. Because jacket is clipped price unknown.
Younger-Hirsch 63.
$450
264. Dr. Seuss. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. New York: Random
House, 1960. First Edition. [63]pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Color Illustrated boards. Very
good/Very good. Faint discoloring to extremities of jacket. Front flap shows minor
spotting at foot. Head of front and rear boards show gentle discoloring. Narrow dent
that runs the length of boards (does not affect illustration). Minor fading to upper left
corner of front free endsheet. A nice copy of the Seuss classic. Younger-Hirsch 64.
$650
Scarce Stegner “A” Item
265. Telford, John [Wallace Stegner]. Great Salt Lake Portfolio. [Salt Lake
City, UT]: 1979. #14/75. Large portfolio containing four loose leaves and eleven
mounted photographs. Housed in a linen clamshell that measures 35 cm 43 cm. The
photographic plates measure 26 cm by 19 cm. The mounts measure 34 cm. by 40 cm.
All leaves and plates are in fine condition. The first plate is titled 'Saltair' and is circa
1905 (photographer unknown). The remaining ten plates are all by John Telford, and
are a culmination of five years work on the shores of the Great Salt Lake.
Telford is a mostly self-taught photographer who has taught photography at many institutions, and currently teaches at Brigham Young University. Over his career his photographs have appeared in numerous
regional and national publications. All eleven plates are beautiful black and white shots, and suitable for
framing.
The introduction is by the Dean of Western Letters, Wallace Stegner. "Everything about Great Salt Lake
is bizarre and contradictory. Remnant though it is, it is still the biggest lake West of the Mississippi. In a
land where water is more precious than diamonds, this lake seventy-miles long and fifty miles wide provides
not a single oasis; it offers little recreation or refreshment, and though it has been on the map as long as
America has been a nation, it remains almost unknown" - from the introduction.
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A stunning group of photographs of the strange and beautiful area that is the Great Salt Lake. With only
seventy-five sets produced, and most of these ending up in institutional holdings, this is a rare chance to pick
up this scarce item. Colberg B130.
$3,000
266.
Thoreau, Henry David. [N.C. Wyeth] Men of Concord and Some
Others as Portrayed in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First Edition. 255pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Full green
cloth with silver titles on front board and backstrip within small blue panels. Very
good/Near fine. Some chipping at corners with small losses. Minor splitting at head
of jacket between front panel and flap. Light overall age toning to jacket, more so to
spine. Very subtle rubbing at corners of boards. Edited by Francis H. Allen.
Ten exquisite full color plates by one of the great American illustrators, N.C. Wyeth. Full color illustrated
endsheets and pastedowns.
$150
Signed Prints from Major Utah Artists
267. [Utah Artist Portfolio]. Out of Print: 25 Prints by 25 Utah Artist.
[Provo, UT]: [Brigham Young University], 1994. 1/30. A collection of signed artist
prints that was produced to commemorate the establishment of the Brigham Young
University Museum of Art. This portfolio contains art work by almost every Utah
artist of note that was living at the time of production. The artists are: Von Allen,
Wulf Barsch, Connie Borup, James Christensen, Paul Davis, Lee Deffebach, David
Dornan, Brent Gehring, Neil Hadlock, Hagen Haltern, Hal Douglas Himes, Wayne
Kimball, Robert Kleinschmidt, Susan Makov, Robert Marshall, Peter Myer, Edie
Roberson, Janet Shapero, Bruce Hixson Smith, Frank Anthony Smith, Gary Ernest
Smith, Doug Snow, Bonnie Sucec, Adrian Van Suchtelan and Sam Wilson.
This exquisite production contains twenty-five signed artist prints by the aforementioned artists. The loose
prints measure 76 cm by 56 cm and are housed in a custom white linen box. The limitation of this set is fiftyfive, but of the fifty-five only thirty were ever available, because each artist received a set. Most of the
remaining sets ended up in institutional holdings, so very few (if any) have ever been publicly available.
Some of the artists command upward of a thousand dollars for individual prints, so this price seems like a
downright steal. This set may never come up for sale again. All of the beautiful works are loose and suitable
for framing.
$4,000
Signed Lynd Ward
268.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft [Lynd Ward]. Frankenstein; or, The
Modern Prometheus. Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. New York: Harrison Smith and
Robert Haas, 1934. First Edition. 259 pp. Octavo [24 cm] White cloth with paper
label on backstrip and large paper label with illustration on front board. Housed in a
light blue slipcase with wrap around paper label. Very good plus. Subtle yellowing to
backstrip. Minor nicking to paper label on backstrip. Four small discoloration's on
front free endsheet. Slipcase sunned at spine and extremities with splitting at corners.
Inscribed by the illustrator on the half title. Inscription reads "For - ___ ___ - with good wishes. - Lynd
Ward". Sixty-two illustrations, including fifteen full-page. This is Lynd Ward at the height of his powers,
and this gothic novel maybe the prefect avenue for his work.
$500
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Signed John Vassos
269. Wilde, Oscar [John Vassos]. The Harlot's House and other Poems.
Interpretations by John Vassos. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1929. Limited
Edition, #179/200. 102pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/4 leather over gray illustrated
boards with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near fine. Light rubbing to corners.
Signed by Vassos on the limitation page. Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of
Vassos. This is the third Wilde work illustrated by Vassos.
$350
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VI. Americana &
Other Fine Items
270. [Allen, Woody]. 'Interiors' [Movie Poster]. [Los Angeles: United Artists
Corporation, 1978. Style B]. 103 cm by 67 cm. Folded. Some subtle discoloring at
folds. Movie poster for the under-appreciated Woody Allen film. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Writing. Signed by
the director/writer, Woody Allen in the lower right corner.
$150
271.
Baker, Henry. Employment for the Microscope in Two Parts.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753. First Edition. 442pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rebound
in a brown pebbled leather with raised bands and title gilt on backstrip. New marbled
endsheets and pastedowns have been added. Original front free endsheet's upper corner has been clipped. Front free endsheet also has a large circle in ink. Faint blind
stamp to title page. Otherwise volume is fine. Complete in one volume. Includes all
seventeen fold-out plates. Early volume on the microscope with attractive plates.
$1,250
272. [Berlin Olympics]. Zur Erinnerung an die Olympiade Berlin 1936. Berlin:
Der Reichssportfuhrer: Hans V. Tschammer Und Osten., 1936. First Edition. 20
leaves. Large quarto [31.5 cm] Red and white padded buckram with metal Berlin bell
attached to the front cover. Internal spiral binding. Very good. Slight yellowing to
extremities.
Two pages of facsimile signatures of the gold medal winners tipped in at front. Includes two portraits (Adolf
Hitler and unidentified man) and 16 large photographs of Berlin.
$450
How Capt. Bourke Spent His Free Time
273. Bourke, John G. Scatalogic Rites Of All Nations: A Dissertation upon
the Employment of Excrementitious Remedial Agents in Religion, Theapeutics,
Divination, Witchcraft, Love-philters, etc. In All Parts of the Globe Based upon
Original Notes and Personal Observations and Upon Compilation from Over One
Thousand Authorities. Washington, D.C.: W.H. Lowdermilk, 1891. First edition.
496pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth with gilt-stamped title on backstrip. Includes a
bibliography and index. Near fine.
Very scarce first edition of this unusual title by Capt. Bourke, who was captain of the U.S. Third Infantry
and much better known for his other titles such as 'On The Border With Crook', 'An Apache Campaign',
etc. Not in Howes! Title page states: "Not For General Persual" presumably due to its unusual content.
A wealth of information from around the globe, including much on the Indian tribes of the southwest,
Navajos, "Moguiis", Pueblo tribes; including the urine, snake and phallic dances of Zuni and Hopi pueblos, etc. Even a chapter on "excrement sausage".
$1,000
274. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W.W. Norton,
1986. First American edition. ISBN: 0393022161. 332pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 blue
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cloth over tan boards. IIllustrations with photographs and renderings. Includes an
index and bibliography. Near fine in like jacket.
Celebrated work by the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford
University. In this volume the author argues for a gene centric view of evolution, or micro evolution.
Dawkins spirited defense of evolution has made him a lightning rod for criticism, and earned him the nickname "Darwin's Rottweiler".
$150
275. Doyle, Arthur Conan. History of Spiritualism (two volume set).
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1926. First edition. [342] and 342pp. Octavo
[24 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped title and author on backstrips. Both volumes
near fine.
This work began as a series of letters and articles that Doyle collaborated on with Leslie Curnow, who
owned one of the largest private libraries dealing with the occult and mysticism. Includes biographical
sketches of famous medium and seers. Green/Gibson B37a.
$600
Important Colonial Family Archive
276.
John Lamb & Anthony Lamb. Historic Lamb Family Archive.
Containing Indentures and Muster Rolls.
John Lamb (1735-1800) was a prominent figure in the American Revolution. Prior to the American
Revolution he was one of leaders of the New York chapter of the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was
an association of Patriots in the Colonies dedicated to the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765, by any means
necessary. John Lamb helped to coordinate anti-British activity in New York. Lamb and Issac Sears led a
mob that captured the Customs House in New York, and another that seized the British Arms at Turtle
Bay. During the Revolution he served as captain in the Northern Army under General Richard
Montgomery. After the American revolution he was appointed collector of customs in New York City and
later was a leader of the opposition to the United States Constitution.
Anthony Lamb was the eldest son of John Lamb. Anthony Lamb rose to the rank of General in the United
States Military, and was also appointed to many commissions and posts. Both Lambs were members of the
Society of the Cincinnati .
The Society of the Cincinnati is the oldest military hereditary society in the United States. The Society
began as the brainchild of Major General Henry Knox. The creation of the Society of the Cincinnati was
to provide a means of ongoing fellowship for the officers of the Continental Army. The General Society of
the Cincinnati was established by the leading officers of the Continental Army, and representatives from
each State in 1783. George Washington served as the first President General of the Society of the
Cincinnati from December 1783, until his death in 1799.
The name of the society is derived from the story of the Roman farmer, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus. In
the Fifth Century, B.C., Cincinnatus, a farmer, was called upon to leave his fields and lead Rome into battle. After returning victorious, Cincinnatus returned to his fields until he was called upon to serve as temporary dictator of early Rome. Once again, he laid down his power to return to a normal life when his job
was done. His life is reflected in the motto of the Society, "He gave up everything to serve the republic."
Complete inventory list available upon request.
$8,000
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277. Kamstra, Jerry. Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler. New York:
Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. Presumed second printing. 267pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]
1/2 lime green cloth over red boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Near fine/Fine.
Very subtle sunning to "Weed" on jacket's spine. Photographs by Eugene Anthony.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: "For - _____ - _____ - Un bien viajo,
hombre - Jerry Kamstra - 1976". Kamstra smuggled grass from Mexico throughout the early sixties. In 1966
he was arrested by U.S. Customs crossing into Arizona with 450 pounds and was sentenced to two years
(which was suspended). Later, Kamstra was approached by Life Magazine and asked to take a photographer into the heart of Mexican mountains. This volume is part travel narrative, part photo essay and part
social history. Includes a glossary of all the groovy words.
$100
Signed Helen Keller
278. Keller, Helen. Story of My Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company,
Inc., 1954. 382pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth with title gilt on backstrip. Illustrated.
Index. Near fine/Very good. Light rubbing to head of fore edge. Jacket has subtle
nicking to corners. New edition with an introduction by Ralph Barton Perry.
Signed by the author. Keller's folded stationary card is pasted to the half title page, with her name engraved
outside,and a typed sentiment - "May the well-spring of Heaven's nearness overflow your life, and spill
beauty into all your days!" Keller's distinctive autograph is in pencil inside the fold.
Volume includes her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages
from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan.
$900
Signed JFK Photograph
279. [Kennedy, John Fitzgerald]. J.F.K. Signed 8" x 10" photograph of the 35th president of the United States. Photograph is of J.F.K. sitting at his desk holding a pen (?),
and gazing at something off camera. Signed in green ink next to his head, and above
his shoulder. 1960. 20 cm by 25 cm black & white photograph of President John F.
Kennedy signed January 30th, 1960 at the Terrace Ballroom in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The then Senator Kennedy was on the campaign trail and stopped at the legendary Terrace Ballroom in
Salt Lake City. The Ballroom was later a rock concert venue for the likes of Janis Joplin, The Jefferson
Airplane, The Doors and others. The photograph has a few problems. Two inch closed tear to bottom with
a small loss of emulsion at center of tear, remnants of tape on reverse of tear, lower right corner chipped
with minor loss, name faint in green ink at lower margin, three, short closed tears (less than half an inch
each) at lower margin, five small emulsion flaws, erasure marks ( from a pencil) at top of photograph,
description of former owner's trip to see J.F.K. in ink on reverse. Nice historical artifact. Provenance available upon request.
$3,500
280. [Magic]. The Magician's Own Book, or the Whole Art of Conjuring.
Being a Complete Hand-Book of Parlor Magic, and Containing Over One Thousand
Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments, Amusing
Transmutations, Astonish Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions,
Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, Curious and Entertaining Puzzles, Together with all
the Most Noted Tricks of Modern Performers. The Whole Illustrated with over 500
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281. Wood Cuts, and Intended as a Source of Amusement for One Thousand and
One Evenings. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1857. First Edition. 362pp.
Octavo [19 cm] Green pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamped titles on front
board and backstrip. Gilt stamped magician on front board. Very good. Light rubbing
to extremities, more so at corners. Contemporary gift inscription in pencil on front
free endsheet. Nice clean copy of this rare first edition.
$300
Important Socioeconomic Treatise
282. Malthus, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the Principle of Population;
or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness. London: John
Murray, 1817. Fifth edition. Three volumes. 496 + 507 + 500pp. Octavo [22 cm]
Original full leather bindings with blind stamped borders to front and rear board.
Raised bands. Leather label with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Marbled fore edges.
Very good. All volumes have bookplates attached to front pastedown. Minor sporadic
foxing throughout. Front board of volume one is cleanly detached along hinge (but
present). The head of volume two's spine is bumped with a small loss. Minor rubbing
at corners. Otherwise a clean an attractive set.
Malthus' major work on socioeconomics. Last corrected edition during the author's lifetime with considerable revision.
$1,500
Early Northwest Passage Maritime History
283.
Parry, William Edward. Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the
North Pole in Boats Fitted for the Purpose and Attached to His Majesty's Ship
Hecla in the Year MDCCCXXVII, Under the Command of Captain William
Edward Parry, RN, FRS. London: John Murray, 1828. First edition. 229pp. Quarto
[28 cm] Original full leather binding, tooled, embossed spine, front and back cover
with gilt accents. All edges gilt. Very good. Original boards have been reattached.
Sporadic foxing throughout. Slightly heavier foxing occurs within engraved plates.
Frontispiece: The Boats off Walden Island in a Snow Storm, August 12, 1827. 6 total plates (including
frontispiece); plates entitled: Plan of the Port of Hammerfest, Departure of the Boats from Hecla Cove,
The Boats Hauled up for the Night, Traveling among Hummocks of Ice, Plan of Treurenburg Bay.
Engravings by Edward Finden. Fold out chart of the North Coast of Spitzbergen located in back of book.
Chart has a small closed tear at left margin (does not affect image).
At the age of thirteen, future Rear Admiral William Edward Parry (1790-1855) entered the British Royal
Navy. One of his first voyages was to search for the entrance to the Northwest Passage. Later in his career,
he was made Captain of the Hecla and sailed on several other voyages to the Arctic. He eventually discovered the entrance to the Northwest Passage (1821-1823). In 1827, Parry and his crew attempted to reach the
North Pole from Spitzbergen, but they were unsuccessful. The expedition reached 82 degrees, 45 minutes
north latitude, a distance within 500 miles of the North Pole and Parry earned a knighthood for his efforts.
He later published three accounts of his voyages to discover the Northwest Passage and this 1828 volume
accounting his attempt to reach the North Pole.
$3,000
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284. Pepys, Samuel. Memoires Relating to the Royal Navy of England,
For Ten Years, Determin'd December, 1688. London: Printed for Ben. Griffin,
1690. First edition, second state. 214pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] Full speckled leather
with raised bands and red morocco label with gilt stamped title. Index. Lacks portrait.
Fold-out present. Near fine. Light rubbing to extremities of boards and raised bands,
minor splitting at foot of front joint, corners bumped, pastedowns discolored at
extremities. Otherwise internally near fine.
$1,300
Australian Gold Rush Narrative
285. Read, Rudston C. What I Heard, Saw and Did at the Australian
Gold Fields. London: T. & W. Boone, 1853. First edition. 327+ 8pp. Octavo [23 cm]
Tan cloth with original decorative blind stamping and gilt stamped title and scene on
backstrip. Very good. Volume has been rebacked with original backstrip laid over.
New endsheets and pastedowns. Light rubbing to extremities. Includes illustrations
with four color lithograph plates, wood engravings and folding map. Small label on
front pastedown.
Rudston C. Read was Crown Land Commissioner and assistant at Mount Alexander, as well as Territorial
Magistrate for the colony of Victoria.
$950
Spanish-American War Report with Map
286.
Tejeiro, Jose Muller. Office of Naval Intelligence. War Notes No. I.
Information from Abroad: Battles and Capitulation of Santiago De Cuba.
(Completed) Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. First Edition. 165pp.
Octavo [22.5 cm] Original full calf with red and black leather label on backstrip.
Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Corners rubbed and bumped. Minor
rubbing and scuffing to boards. Front joint splitting at head. Both maps at rear present and in near fine condition.
$175
Signed Frank Herbert
287. Vinge, Joan D. [Herbert, Frank]. The Dune Storybook. New York: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1984. First edition. [60pp.] Quarto [28 cm] Red illustrated boards.
Near fine.
This volume signed by both Joan D. Vinge and Frank Herbert on the title page in black pen. This is a movie
tie-in, illustrated with stills from the excellent David Lynch film.
$300
Early Astronomical Work
288. Wilkins, John. Discovery of a New World. Or, a Discourse Tending
to prove, that 'tis Probable there may be another Habitable World in
the Moon. With a Discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage
thither. Unto which is Added, A Discourse concerning a New Planet, Tending to
Prove, That 'tis Probable Our Earth is one of the Planets. /BOUND WITH/ A
Discourse Concerning a New Planet, Tending to prove That 'tis probable our Earth
is one of the Planets: The Second Book. London: Printed by J. Rawlins for John
Gellibrand., 1684. Fifth Edition Corrected and Amended & presumed first edition of
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the "Second Book". 160 + 184pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Bound in full leather with
raised bands. Very good. Boards scuffed and rubbed (particularly at the extremities
and raised bands). Internally foxed. Illustrated with diagrams throughout.
An interesting Astronomical work wherein the author attempts (with some success) to expound on the earlier works of Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo. His overall opinions, though they may seem pedestrian by
today's standard, were considered heretical in his own day. Wilkins was a scholar of the first order, and a
founder of the Royal Society, as well as the former Master of Trinity College. An important astronomical
work that, if nothing else, gives a valuable insight into the scientific community of Victorian England.
$3,000
Salem Witchcraft Trials Record
289. Woodward, W. Elliott. Records of Sa
alem Witchcraft, Copied from
the Original Documents (two volume set). Roxbury, MA: W. Elliot Woodward,
1864. First edition, #84/215. 279,287pp. Octavo [22 cm] Contemporary binding (not
original) in an attractive 3/4 leather over marbled boards. The marbling from the
boards matches the pastedowns and the rectos of the front free endsheets. Raised
bands and gilt stamped titles on backstrips. Near fine. Subtle rubbing to corners.
Volume one has a listing of dates this book sold for at auction from 1890-1901 written in pencil on second front free endsheet. Volume two includes an index and a list
of subscribers. Internally clean with no foxing. A beautiful set.
W. Elliot Woodward was a prominent coin and medal collector of the nineteenth century. George Seymour
Goddard was also a coin collector and may have acquired these volumes through a possible acquaintance at
one point in time with Mr. Woodward. Woodward privately published two sets of books on the Salem witch
trials. The trials resulted in the death of 24 individuals. Nineteen were hanged for witchcraft, four died in
prison, and one was "pressed" to death. Eighty-year old Giles Corey, being accused of witchcraft, refused to
confess nor deny the charges against him. As punishment he was pressed to death. A board was placed across
his chest and heavy stones piled on top, literally pressing him to death. This two volume set is a record of the
hysteria surrounding those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Scarce.
$2,500
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VII. Literature & Modern Firsts
A Long Run of Scarce & Signed Abbey
290. Abbey, Edward. Black Sun. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First
edition. 159pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Short gift inscription
on the front free endsheet. Jacket is price clipped.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. The first and only edition in hardcover of the author’s fourth novel
extremely difficult to find signed. A fictional account of the author's time spent as a fire lookout on the
north rim of the Grand Canyon. Abbey blends both the dying of his wife in a New Jersey hospital, and one
Carol Turner, who disappeared into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument into this bittersweet love
story. Abbey himself proclaimed this to be his favorite of his books (I don't believe him) and Utah author
Terry Tempest Williams once claimed that her grandmother in a private audience, stated the same.
$1,500
291. Abbey, Edward. The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956. First edition. 277pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2
black cloth over tan boards. Very good/Very good. Small loss to head of spine and
stain to real panel, few edge tears. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell.
Second published work from the literary icon. The story of Jack Burns and his fight with modern society (a
theme Abbey would revisit). The character of Jack Burns would turn up in later Abbey novels: The
Monkey Wrench Gang, Good News and Hayduke Lives! Basis for the film starring Kirk Douglas titled
"Lonely are the Brave"
$5,000
Western Wilderness Classic
292. Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New
York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition. 269pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]
Brown cloth. Illustrated. Fine/Fine. A sharp crisp copy.
Signed by the author on the front free endsheet in black ink. The author's fourth book and his first work of
nonfiction. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National
Monument of the 1950s, was quietly published in the raucous sixties in a first edition of 5,000 copies. It has
now gone on to sell almost two million copies taking, its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand
County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as an environmental and wilderness classic. The late
author's reflections transcend the mere genre of the environmental essay. The individual pieces form a fully
realized whole that defined a whole new style of environmental and wilderness writing, inspiring new generations of writers (Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams come to mind) while becoming the author's
best known, and best loved work in the process, and yes, becoming what Abbey always feared, "a classic".
$3,000
293. Abbey, Edward. Fire on the Mountain. New York: Dial Press, 1962. First
edition. 211pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 red cloth over yellow boards. Near fine/Very good.
Light rubbing to corners of jacket with a one-inch closed tear to foot of front panel
(with subtle corresponding creasing.
Signed by the author on the front free endsheet in black ink. Abbey's third published novel. The story
follows familiar Abbey themes of government intrusion in the West and the rugged individuals who
confront the bureaucratic machine.
$2,000
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Cactus Ed’s First Published Work
294. Abbey, Edward. Jonathan Troy. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954.
First edition and only edition. 374pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth. Very good/Very
good. Former lending library with bookplate on front pastedown, stamp at foot of last
page of text and remnants of bookplate on rear pastedown. Jacket shows minor sunning to spine and light nicking to extremities.
Author's first work. Abbey himself described this early novel as "bad Thomas Wolfe" and was embarrassed
by it almost as soon as it was published and never allowed it to be reprinted.
$2,000
Destroying Billboards & Other Wholesome Fun
295. Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. New York: J.P. Lippincott,
1975. First edition. 352 pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/2 red cloth over black boards with title
silver stamped on backstrip and a small silver stamped monkey wrench on front
board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Faint subtle discoloring
to extremities of jacket.
The late great Edward Abbey published twenty one books during his lifetime (two posthumously) Both The
Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire have gone on to become what the author always dreaded, "classics" and have now each sold more than one million copies each. A crisp copy of the controversial novel that
gave birth to radical environmental group Earth First!
$750
Signed by Abbey & Crumb
296. Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Salt Lake City, UT: Dream
Garden Press, 1985. Signed limited edition, #233/250. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red
cloth with gilt stamped title to front board and backstrip. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase with full color work to front panel. Illustrated by underground cartoonist and
sometime musician, R. Crumb. Fine in like slipcase.
Tenth anniversary edition. Signed by Edward Abbey on the limitation page, with a signed numbered print,
"You Can't Never Go Wrong Cuttin' Fence", by R. Crumb laid in.
$1,500
297. Allen, Woody. Floating Light Bulb. New York: Random House, 1982.
Second printing. 104pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over gray boards. Near
fine/Near fine.
Signed by the author on the title page. Celebrated writer and director's third stage play.
$350
298.
Anderson, Kent. Sympathy for the Devil. New York: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1987. First edition. 350pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black cloth over black
boards. Fine in like jacket.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. Inscription reads: "Sometimes I think about - who I
became "He" was - already there, but the war - allowed me to "realize" - him and think it's a - fuckin' miracle I've done - as well as I have - mentioned that to - Crumley, on the phone, - last week, and he agreed. Kent". Author's first work. Laid in is a four-page booklet, James Crumley's introduction to the French
edition of the book.
$250
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299. Banks, Russell, William Matthews & Newton Smith. 15 Poems. Chapel Hill,
NC: Lillabulero Press, April, 1967. First edition, 1/500. 21pp. Octavo [20 cm] Tan,
stapled wrappers.
Signed by the author, Russell Banks, on the title page. Banks first published work. Scarce.
$400
Signed Samuel Beckett
300. Beckett, Samuel. Company. New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1980. First edition.
63pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over gray boards. Near fine/Near fine. Subtle
rubbing to extremities of price-clipped jacket.
Signed and dated by the author in ink at the head of the title page. A novella from the renowned author. A
nice signed copy from one of the most influential writers of the postwar period.
$1,000
301. Berry, Wendell. The Long-Legged House. New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc., 1969. First edition. 213pp. Octavo [21 cm] Full green cloth with silver
stamped title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine
"Advance Copy" review slip tucked into the front of the book. Signed and dated (12/14/88) by the author
on the title page in blue pen.
$500
302. Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. Third Printing. 171pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth
with pictorial dust jacket. Fine in like jacket. Numerous illustrations by Steadman,
including all 26 leters of the alphabet.
Signed and dated on the half title by the gonzo illustrator; who has drawn over the printed illustration and
added a new drawing embellishing the printed artwork and signed and dated the artwork with his trademark red marker. Introduction by Angus Calder.
$300
Book Collecting for the Beginner
303. Bowden, Charles. Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the
Illiterate. Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. 8pp.
Octavo [22 cm] Limited edition chapbook, hand-stitched binding, case bound in
black cloth boards, with red paper labels pasted front and rear. Rear endsheet serves
as the colophon, with the author's signature. Cover design by Edward Bateman. Book
design and letterpress printing by Jason Davis at Verdant Press. One of 26 specially
bound lettered copies signed by the author, in addition to the 100 copies in wrappers.
Bowden laments the state of modern book collecting. Originally conceived for, and given as a talk at the
grand opening of Ken Sanders Rare Books in downtown Salt Lake City, August, 1996. Published on the
occasion of Bowden's visit to Salt Lake City to publicize his 2005 book, Shadow in the City.
$150
304. Bowden, Charles. Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future. New York:
Aperture, 1998. First edition. 136pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over red boards
with title stamped in black on backstrip. Fine/Fine. Illustrated with color photographs.
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A collection of photographs by the fearless news photographers of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico with Bowden's
investigation of the border town. Preface by Noam Chomsky. Afterword by Eduardo Galeano.
Photographs by Javier Aguilar, Jaime Bailleres, Gabriel Cardona, Julian Cardona, Alfredo Carillo, Raul
Lodoza, Jaime Murietta, Miguel Perea, Margarita Reyes, Ernesto Rodriguez, Manuel Saenz, Lucio Soria
Espino,Aurelio Suarez Nunez. Signed by the author.
$45
305. Bowden, Charles. Killing the Hidden Waters. Austin, TX: University of
Texas Press, 1977. First edition. 174pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with black
stamped titles on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket price clipped. Gentle rubbing
to jackets rear panel. Signed by the author on the half-title in black ink. First work by
the fearless writer.
$250
306. Bowden, Charles. Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other
Illusions of Big-City Life. Photographs by Richard Younker. Chicago, IL:
Chicago Review Press, 1981. First edition. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black publisher’s
buckram with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the
author in black ink on the half-title.
$150
307.
Bowden, Charles & Mona Mort. Verbatim: A Conversation with
Charles Bowden. Tucson, AZ: Sylph Publications, 2004. First edition, 1/10. 58pp.
Octavo [19.5 cm] 1/2 green satin over pictorial boards with a leather label on the backstrip. Housed in a matching green satin clamshell with leather label. Sylph chapbook
number 7. No dust jacket as issued.
Signed by both authors. A signed silkscreen print is laid in. This interview with Bowden, author of 'Blood
Orchid' and 'Shadow in the City', gives a good idea of the breadth and intensity of his conversation, in an
attractive and very limited presentation binding.
$300
308. Bowles, Paul. Points In Time. New York: Ecco Press, 1982. First edition.
92pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 maroon cloth over tan boards. A fine copy in a fine dust
jacket. Map endsheets from Ortelius map of Morocco. The Tangier based late
author's first novel, since Up Above the World in 1967. A journey into the author's
adopted homeland of Morocco.
Signed and dated by the author on the half-title.."Paul Bowles/Tangier/April 1985". Miller A14.
$250
309. Bowles, Paul. Up Above the World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
First edition. 223pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Gray cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Light nicking
to corners of jacket. Gentle fading to boards.
Signed and dated by the author on the front free endsheet. Miller A14.
$500
310. Bradbury, Ray. Medicine for Melancholy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
& Company, Inc., 1959. First edition. 240pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth. Near fine/Near
fine. Subtle rubbing to corners. Gentle fading to spine of jacket, minor nicking to corners.
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Contains the short story 'All Summer in a Day'. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet.
Inscription reads: "For--- with good wishes - this "Medicine" for - any melancholies you may have - lying
about - Ray Bradbury - 3/18/59". Currey p. 57. Reginald 01767.
$750
Complete With All Seed Packets
311.
Brautigan, Richard. Please Plant This Book. San Francisco: Graham
Mackintosh, 1968. First edition. A complete copy with the outer, illustrated folio with
inner pockets containing eight seed packets (with seeds) printed with poetry and
prose on them. The eight seed packets include: Lettuce, Carrots, California Native
Flowers, Calendula, Sweet Alyssum Royal Carpet, Squash, Shasta Daisy and Parsley.
This copy belonged to the book's printer and publisher, Graham Mackintosh and there is a letter included
that authenticates this provenance. For over forty years, Graham Macktintosh has made distinguished contributions to American literary and art publishing as publisher, printer, type designer, book designer, editor. He also was a writer on printing. His impact can be seen from the early 1960s, at the modern renaissance of poetry in its hungry, revolutionary days of mimeo chapbooks, through the revival of fine press and
letterpress printing, and it continues to this day. The book is in very good condition with only a few, faint
spots to the outer folio and seed packets. An excellent example of this rare and charming literary piece.
$1,500
312.
Brooks, Geraldine. March. New York: Viking Press, 2005. First edition.
280pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 brown over tan boards. Fine in like jacket.
Signed by the author on the title page. The author's second novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006.
The novel is set during the Civil War, and chronicles the experiences of the father of Louisa May Alcott's
"Little Women".
$350
313. Bukowski, Charles. Bring Me Your Love. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow
Press, 1983. Second Printing. 15pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over tan illustrated boards. Paper label on backstrip. Near fine. Four black and white R. Crumb
illustrations.
$100
314. Bukowski, Charles. Cage. Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1987. First printing.
Letterpress postcard. 11.5 cm by 16cm White stock with red title. #9 in a series of letterpressed poem postcards issued by the Limberlost Press. Edition size unknown, but
presumed quite small. Fine.
Signed by the laureate of Skid Row in black ink at foot.
$125
315. Bukowski, Charles. The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors
Have Taken Over the Ship. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First
edition. 144pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth over tan illustrated boards with paper
label on backstrip. This volume is #168 of 400 copies produced containing an
original signed color serigraph portrait of Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb.
Twelve full page R. Crumb illustrations. Issued with a clear mylar dust jacket.
Krumhansl 156c.
$300
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316. Bukowski, Charles. Horses Don't Bet On People & Neither Do I.
Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review Press, 1984. First edition, #665/700. 124pp.
Duodecimo [21 cm] Orange stapled wrappers with illustrated cover. Scarcer work
from the Laureate of Skid Row. This work was limited to 700 copies. Cover illustration by Bukowski. Issued as Wormwood Review number 95. Krumhansl 93.
$140
317. Bukowski, Charles. Legs, Hips and Behind. Stockton, CA: Wormwood
Review Press, 1978. First edition, #676/700. 120pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Light blue
stapled wrappers with illustrated cover. Near fine. Extremities of wraps lightly
sunned. Early work from the Laureate of Skid Row. This work was limited to 700
copies. Cover illustration by Bukowski. Issued as Wormwood Review number 71.
Krumhansl 64.
$150
318. Bukowski, Charles. Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story
Window. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, 1974. Second Printing. 46pp. Small octavo [21
cm] Light blue wrappers with photographs of the author on the front and rear panel.
Near fine. The slightest of sunning to the backstrip.
Signed by the author on the front cover in black felt pen. Variant of Krumhansl 28a.
$200
To Drink, or Not to Drink…
319. Bukowski, Charles. Shakespeare Never Did This. Photographs by Michael
Montfort. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First edition. Oblong quarto
[22.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over tan illustrated boards with paper label on backstrip. Near
fine.
Pictorial travel narrative from Buk. Illustrated with many full-page black and white photographs. This volume is letter "M" of 26 signed copies, lettered A-Z, with an original black and white Michael Montford
photograph laid into the front of the book. Signed by Michael Montfort on the limitation page in black pen.
Krumhansl 143d.
$350
320. Bukowski, Charles. There's No Business. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow
Press, 1984. Limited Edition, #7/400. 17pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] 1/2 purple polka dotted cloth over pink illustrated boards. Near fine.
Signed by both Charles Bukowski and R. Crumb on the limitation page in black pen. Bright orange endpapers. Five R. Crumb illustrations. Issued in clear mylar dust jacket. Krumhansl 87c.
$325
Signed & Hand Colored by Buk
321. Bukowski, Charles. You Kissed Lilly. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow
Press, 1978. Limited Edition, #18/75. [26pp.] Duodecimo [20.5 cm] 1/2 decorative
purple cloth over light orange boards. Paper label on backstrip. Fine/Fine.
Front board hand colored by Bukowski. Signed by Bukowski on the limitation page and on the colored front
board in black felt pen. Illustrated by the author. Krumhansl 61b.
$600
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322. Burroughs, William S. Ticket That Exploded. New York: Grove Press, Inc,
1967. First edition. 217pp. Octavo [20 cm] Full orange cloth with printed black titles
on the backstrip. Near fine/Fine.
Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Second volume in the cut-up 'Nova Trilogy'. "The basic
nova technique is very simple: Always create as many insoluble conflicts as possible and always aggravate
existing conflicts-This is done by dumping on the same planet life forms with incompatible conditions of
existence-There is of course nothing "wrong" about any given life form since "wrong" only has reference to
conflicts with other life forms-The point is these life forms should not be on the same planet-Their conditions of life are basically incompatible in present time form and it is precisely the work of the nova mob to
see that they remain in present time form, to create and aggravate the conflicts that lead to the explosion of
a planet, that is to nova" - Burroughs. Maynard A6b.
$400
Signed True Crime High Point
323. Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple
Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Random House, 1965. First edition.
343pp. Octavo [22 cm] Dark red cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near
fine/Near fine. Subtle rubbing to corners of jacket. Volume shows the slightest
rolling. Overall, a very nice copy.
Signed by the author on a tipped in leaf. Capote's masterpiece that was six years in the making. Story
recounts the senseless murders of a Kansas family. A classic not only of literature, but probably the finest
true crime volume ever published. Starosciak 11.a.
$2,000
Signed - Capote’s First Book
324.
Capote, Truman. Other Voices Other Rooms. New York: Random
House, 1948. First edition. 231pp. Octavo [21 cm] Cream cloth. Very good/Very good.
Volume is slightly rolled. Jacket shows minor nicking to corners with subtle losses,
three small closed tears have been "repaired" with scotch tape on reverse.
Truman Capote's southern gothic masterpiece was met with immediate critical acclaim, and pushed a
young (23) Truman into the spotlight. The novel dealt with among other things, homosexuality and race
(scandalous topics at the time). Capote's first published novel is Signed by the author on a return receipt
attached to front pastedown. Starosciak 1A.
$2,000
325. Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile
of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's
Adventure in Wonderland" London: Macmillan and Company, 1886. Facsimile
first edition. 95pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped borders to front
and rear board and gilt stamped title to front board and backstrip. Very good. Light
rubbing to extremities. Subtle fading to backstrip. Includes thirty-seven illustrations
by the author.
$750
326. Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. New York: Harper
Collins, 2007. First edition, #497/500. 411pp. Octavo [23.5 cm.] White cloth.
Housed in a custom wooden slipcase, produced specifically for this limited edition.
New in publishers shrink-wrap. Signed and numbered by the author on the limitation
page. (13032)
$175
97
327. Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. Ten Women in Gale's House and Shorter
Poems. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1932. First edition. 72pp. Octavo
[21 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Very
good/Near fine. Jacket shows light chipping at corners with some small losses. Light
overall fading to jacket with a few small discolorations.
Clark's first book and only book of poetry. Preceded by a Christmas pamphlet. Scarce in dust jacket
$950
328. Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.
Second printing. 709pp. Octavo [24 cm.] Illustrated boards. Fine/Fine.
Signed with the author's bold 'Z' in blue marker. Believe the hype. This is one of best author debuts in
recent memory. “This is not for you”.
$150
329. Danielewski, Mark Z. Only Revolutions: The Democracy Of Two
Set Out & Chronologically Arranged. New York: Pantheon, 2006. First
edition. 360pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full color illustrated boards. Fine in like jacket.
Signed by the author on the "You were there." page on the Hailey side with his usual 'Z'. This copy numbered 96 out of a limitation of 360. Eagerly anticipated follow up to 'House of Leaves'.
$75
330.
Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938. First
American edition. 389pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth over orange boards. Title gilt
on backstrip. Gilt stamped flamingo on front board. Near fine in like jacket.
Author's account of the time she spent in East Africa from 1914-1931. Later adapted into an award-winning film. "Ex Africa semper aliquid novi" - Pliny the Elder
$650
Inscribed Association Copy
331. Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. New York: Random House, 1975. First edition.
270pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Very good/Near fine.
Sporadic notes and underlining, in both pencil and ink by Professor Milton Voight. A
fantastic association copy.
Signed by the author. A unique signed and inscribed copy of Ragtime. One of the 150 signed limited editions
of the author's most famous work, this copy has been signed on the limitation page as follows: "E. L.
Doctorow/ wrote his name for all these copies/ at 1376 Princeton Avenue/Salt Lake City,Utah/ Home of
Professor Milton Voight/scholar,teacher, and bon vivant! /May 15, 1975. Doctorow has numbered this
copy "151" out of 150. Additionally the author has inscribed the front free endpaper..."To Milt, my friend/
and orchestrator of/ the spring quarter/EL".
Milton Voight was a long-time professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and a long time friend
of the author, E.L. Doctorow. Doctorow wrote portions of Ragtime at the Voight residence in Salt Lake
City and as the inscription attests, signed the entire limited edition at professor's Voight's home. An interesting and unique association copy of a beloved American novel.
$1,000
332. Dunning, John. Booked to Die. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First
edition. 321pp. Octavo [21.cm] 1/2 blue cloth with matching blue boards. Fine/Fine.
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Signed by the author on the title page. The first title in the wildly successful Cliff Janeway biblio mystery
series. Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award.
$1,000
333. Dunning, John. Denver. New York: Times Books, 1980. First edition. 407pp.
Octavo [24cm] 1/2 brown cloth over red boards. Title gilt stamped on front board
and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Gentle bumping to jacket head of spine and rear
panel. Contemporary gift inscription in ink on the front free endsheet.
Signed by the author on the title page. Second novel by the winner of the Nero Wolfe award and best-selling author. 'Denver' is set in the roaring twenties and follows newspaper reporter Tom Hastings as he
unravels a story involving the KKK and the frontier government of Denver. Denver has gone through two
printings, and as Mr. Dunning's fame and fan base have grown, it has become increasingly harder to find
in good shape. According to the author, the first printing was about 5,000 copies.
$400
334.
Dunning, John. Holland Suggestions: A Novel of Suspense.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Incorporated, 1974. First edition. 187pp. Small
octavo [21.5 cm] Gray boards with red stamped title on backstrip. Near fine/Near
fine. One tiny pin prick to jacket on the fold of the front flap. Faint offsetting to front
free endsheet. The jacket is not price clipped. Both book and jacket bright.
Signed by the award-winning author on the title page in blue ink. Acclaimed author's first novel. First editions of this volume are quite scarce, due to one small printing before the book club edition. According to
Dunning, most of the first editions ended up in public libraries.
$1,000
335. Dunning, John. Two O'clock Eastern Wartime: A Novel. New York:
Scribners, 2001. First edition. 473pp. Octavo [23 cm] Hand-bound by the Harcourt
Bindery of Boston in 3/4 blue leather and marbled paper with gilt accents and title at
spine. In matching silk and marbled paper slipcase.
One of twenty-six lettered copies in the author's manuscript edition. This copy, lettered 'O' of 26 lettered
copies, contains two pages of the original manuscript of the novel, with Dunning's handwritten notes and
revisions, tipped in behind the front free end paper. Signed by the author on the limitations page. This volume is an excellent example of modern hand-binding and is a must have for the serious Dunning collector.
$950
Invisible Man with Autograph
336.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952. First
edition. 439 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Two-toned cloth. Near fine/Very good. Minor
rubbing to corners of jacket with subtle nicking.
Signed. Author's signature on a card laid in. Classic American novel, influenced by the Harlem
Renaissance. Ellison was introduced to Richard Wright during his first trip to New York. Wright encouraged Ellison to abandon his dreams of a musical career (at the time he was studying music at the Tuskegee
Institute), and instead focus his attention on writing. Ellison soon made a name for himself with the East
Coast intelligentsia through his shorter works being published by the literary journals of the day. The book
deals with the universal themes of man's search for identity and place in society. The book won the National
Book Award for 1953.
$3,500
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337. Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
First edition. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over navy boards. Pictorial map
endsheets and pastedowns. Fine in like jacket.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads "For Darlene - Charles Frazier". Author's first
novel and winner of the National Book Award. The basis for the Academy award winning film. The first
printing of this work was small ( for a major publishing house), and has gone on to numerous reprints,
eventually becoming a publishing juggernaut.
$350
338. Grass, Gunther. The Tin Drum. New York: Pantheon Books, [c.1962]. Book
Club edition. [592pp] Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip.
Very good/Near fine. Subtle discoloring to extremities of jacket. Corners nicked.
Jacket price clipped. Scotch tape on reverse of jacket at corners. Faint rubbing to backstrip and corners of cloth.
Signed by the author in black ink on the half-title. Probably the best known work by the Nobel Prize winning author.
$500
339. Grey, Zane. Robbers' Roost. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1932.
First edition. 295pp. Octavo [20 cm] Black cloth with red printed titles on front
board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Corners of jacket rubbed and lightly
nicked. Minor discoloration to the head of the jacket from tape on the reverse. Gentle
bumping to corners of boards. Grey's yarn about the infamous outlaw hideout in
Southern Utah.
$500
340. Harris, Frank. My Life and Loves (four volume set). Paris: Obelisk Press,
1945. 233, 302, 176, 178pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Gray wrappers with titles printed in
red on the front panel and the backstrip. All volumes near fine.
Harris' best known work chronicles his sexual escapades, and due to its graphic nature created quit a stir,
and was subsequently banned in many countries. 'Must Not Be Imported Into England OR USA'
stamped small in red on the back panels of all volumes. "Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy
to untie my bootstrings."
$250
341. Harrison, Jim. Legends of the Fall / Revenge / The Man Who Gave
Up His Name. New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1978, 1979, 1979.
First printing. Three volume set. 84, 97, 90pp. Octavo [21 cm] All volumes bound
uniformly in cream cloth with silver stamped titles on the backstrip. All volumes near
fine. Small remainder marks at the foot of the text block of all three volumes, otherwise a fine set. Housed in the publisher's slipcase that shows minor wear at extremities. All three volumes signed by the author in black ink on the title pages.
$450
342. Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1952. First edition. 140 pp. Octavo [21 cm] Original light blue cloth with silver
stamped titles on backstrip and 'Ernest Hemingway' blind stamped at the foot of the
100
front panel. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket has been neatly price clipped. The head of the
jacket's spine has been expertly repaired. Jacket is very bright. Minor fading to backstrip. Subtle rubbing to corners of boards.
Last major work by the American heavyweight. This work reminded the world that Hemingway was a
writer of the first water. One of the greatest novellas of all time, and winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. Two years after the publication of this work, Hemingway would be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Hanneman 24.A.
"I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them
good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true
and sometimes truer than true." - Ernest Hemingway.
$1,500
343. Hillerman, Tony. Shape Shifter. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First edition, Uncorrected Proof. 276pp. Octavo [23 cm] White illustrated wrappers. Fine.
Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: "To my old(alas!) friend _______ - 'May he always walk with - beauty - before - him.' Plagiarized from a Navajo - healing
chant. - Tony Hillerman". This is the Uncorrected proof that preceded the trade edition. Harper produced
very few of these proofs, and the personnel inscription, make this copy quite scarce.
$300
Rare First Edition of this Supernatural Classic
344.
Hodgson, William Hope. House on the Borderland: From the
Manuscript, discovered in 1877 by Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog,
in the Ruins that lie to the South of the Village of Kraighten, in the
West of Ireland. Set out here, with Notes. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd.,
1908. First edition. 300pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped title and
author on front board and backstrip. Very good. Slightly rolled, backstrip a little
faded, corners rubbed, bookplate on front pastedown, cosmetic splitting to hinges,
minor foxing to endsheets.
Extremely scarce first edition of this classic of supernatural fiction. Precedes the Arkham House (American
first) by 38 years. This novel is a classic example of the 'found journal' narrative (i.e. Lovecraft's
Necronomicon or Danielewski's House of Leaves). The influence of Hodgson on supernatural fiction cannot be overstated. H.P. Lovecraft wrote: “...perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works .... The wanderings of the Narrator's spirit through limitless light-years of cosmic space and Kalpas of eternity, and its
witnessing of the solar system's final destruction, constitute something almost unique in standard literature.
And everywhere there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed horrors in natural
scenery. .....a classic of the first water.” Bleiler p.101. Currey, p. 243 Reginald #07284.
$6,000
345.
Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead
Books, Penguin Group, Inc., 2007. First edition. 372pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 black
cloth over green boards with title gilt stamped on backstrip. Fine in like jacket.
Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Hosseini's long-awaited second novel "is a tale of two
generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives - the
struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around
them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A
Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply
moving account of family and friendship."
$100
101
346.
Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona (two volume set) Illustrated by Henry
Sandham. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. 'Monterey Edition'. 310,
308pp. Octavo [22 cm] Decorative blue cloth with gilt titles on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine.
In scarce publisher's jackets. Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Jackson's classic novel of the American
Indian experience. Jackson used 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as inspiration for her own work, "If I can do onehundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful," she told a friend. The
novel was an immediate success, and cemented her reputation. Scarce in jackets.
$500
347.
Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona (two volume set) Illustrated by Henry
Sandham. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. 'Edition de Luxe',
#87/500. 310, 308pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 leather over green suede boards. Extensive
decorative gilt stamping and titles to boards and backstrips. Near fine. Light rubbing
to extremities, more so at corners.
$250
348. Jackson, Shirley. The Sundial. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958. First
edition. 245pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] 1/4 gray cloth over black boards. Near fine/Near
fine. Minor rubbing to corners. Mild discoloring to backstrip. An unusually nice and
bright copy of this dust jacket.
$200
Beginning of the Cold War Clichés
349.
Le Carre, John. Spy Who Came in from the Cold. London: Victor
Gollancz Limited, 1963. First edition. 222pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with gilt
stamped title on front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Light rubbing to
corners of jacket. Spine of jacket shows some sunning. Volume slightly rolled. Former
owner inscription in ink on the front free endsheet.
Cold War spy thriller, hailed by many as the definitive work of the genre. Lauded upon its release, 'The
Spy' has won every major Mystery award, and has also received the only "Dagger of Daggers" award that
was awarded by the British Crime Writers Association. A giant in post-war literature.
$1,000
350. Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and
Company, 1948. First printing. 721pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth. Near fine/Very
good. Jacket shows light rubbing to fore edge and joints. Light chipping to corners
with small losses.
First edition of the author's highly successful first book. Mailer has gone on to win every major writing
award and, with Capote, reinvented the nonfiction work.
$850
351. McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; Or, The Evening Redness in the
West. New York: Random House, 1985. First edition. 337pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2
red cloth over matching boards. Near fine/Near fine. Faint discoloration on the
reverse of the jacket at the foot of the spine, corresponding subtle discoloration to
foot of backstrip. Review slip laid in.
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An uncommonly clean copy of this literary masterpiece. Largely ignored upon its release, 'Blood Meridian'
is now seen as McCarthy's finest work. This work marks the beginning of McCarthy's "Southwestern
Period". Blood Meridian was ranked third in a New York Times poll of the most important American
work of the last 25 years.
$1,500
McCarthy’s First Published Work
352. McCarthy, Cormac. Orchard Keeper. New York: Random House, 1965.
First edition. 246 pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 green cloth maroon boards. Near fine/Near
fine. Very subtle rubbing to joints. Light crease to head of jacket's rear panel, jacket
price clipped.
The epitome of the "Southern Gothic" novel. Story follows the Rattner family of Tennessee between the
World Wars. First published work by this American literary giant.
$3,000
353. McMurtry, Larry. Cadillac Jack. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. First
edition. 395pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 red cloth over gray boards. Gray stamped title to
backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Small discrete remainder stamp at foot of text block.
Signed by the author on the front free endsheet, and again on the title page.
$100
354. McPhee, John. A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William
Warren Bradley. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. First edition. 144pp.
Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth. Illustrated with 24 pages of photographs.
Fine/Near fine. Minor spotting to rear panel of price clipped jacket, short closed tear
to foot of front panel of jacket.
Bill Bradley: Gold Medalist, Rhodes Scholar, NBA champion and Hall of Famer, Senator and U.S.
Presidential candidate. Any of these things alone are impressive, but add them up, and you have a truly
remarkable life. First work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the founders of "New
Journalism".
$950
355. Meloy, Ellen. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on
Landscape, Art, and Spirit. New York: Pantheon, 2002. First edition. 322 pp.
Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over turquoise boards. Near fine/Near fine Subtle
rubbing to corners.
Signed by the author on the title page. Meloy wrote three excellent books of natural history and contributed
numerous pieces to National Public Radio before her untimely death in 2004. Her last, "The Anthropology
of Turquoise," was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
$120
356. Meloy, Ellen. The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the
Desert Southwest. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First edition. 225pp. Octavo
[21.5 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over cream colored boards with title gilt stamped on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Foil "Autographed Copy" sticker on front panel of jacket.
Faint rubbing to corners of boards.
Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Meloy wrote three excellent books of natural history
and contributed numerous pieces to National Public Radio before her untimely death in 2004.
$125
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357. Meloy, Ellen. Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River. New York:
Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. 256pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 clothbound over papercovered boards with gilt stamped title to backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed on
the half title page by Meloy.
$150
358. O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte, 1978. First
edition. 338 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light blue cloth with gilt stamped title on backstrip.
Near fine in like jacket.
Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award, and an important novel on
the Vietnam War.
$800
359.
Robbins, Tom. Another Roadside Attraction. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First edition. 400pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 green
cloth with black boards. Very good/Near fine. Jacket rubbed at extremities, some
chipping to corners with minor losses. Corners of boards lightly rubbed.
Signed by the author at the foot of the title page. First published work from the "Zen-Punk" of the
Northwest. Published with little fanfare, this novel would be the foundation for Robbins' sizable cult following. "There are three mental states that interest me, said Amanda, turning the lizard doorknob. These
are: one, amnesia; two, euphoria; three, ecstasy". Indeed.
$850
360. Robbins, Tom. Still Life with Woodpecker. New York: Bantam Books,
1980. First edition. 277pp. Octavo [23.5 cm.] Tan cloth. Near fine/Fine. Light rubbing
to corners of jacket.
Signed by the author in red ink on the half-title. Love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. Third novel from the cult figure.
$500
361. Robeson, Kenneth [Lester Dent]. Land of Terror: Doc Savage and His
Pals in a Novel of Unusual Adventure. New York: Street & Smith
Publications, Incorporated, 1933. First edition thus. 252 pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]
Illustrated boards. Very good. Light rubbing to extremities and rear joint. Subtle rubbing to rear board. Backstrip gently faded. Lending library stamp on endsheets and
pastedowns. Bookplate on half title. Cosmetic splitting to front hinge.
First hardback edition. Second Doc Savage adventure. Originally appeared in Doc Savage Magazine.
Hubin pp. 341.
$200
Signed Harry Potter
362. Rowling, J[oanne] K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York:
Arthur A. Levine an imprint of Scholastic Press, 2002. Thirty-first printing. 754pp.
Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over red, diced boards with titles gilt stamped on
backstrip. Near fine/Fine. Minor bumping to corners of jacket. Small discoloration to
reverse of jacket at upper right corner of front panel.
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Signed by the author on a 'Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling' bookplate that is affixed to the half-title. With
the immense success of the Potter series, and the author's increasing hesitation to do book signings, her signature is becoming harder to find. Fourth installment in the ridiculously popular series.
$1,000
363. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
First edition. 446pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 maroon cloth of gray boards. Near
Fine/Fine. Very subtle sunning to spine of jacket.
The American edition precedes the British edition. Second published work by Rushdie and considered by
many to be his finest. Midnight's Children was awarded the Booker Prize, and was also awarded the Booker
of Booker Prizes in 1993 to the best of the original 25 winners of the Booker Prize. Midnight's Children is
also the only Indian novel to be named to Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels since its founding in 1923.
$1,000
364. Schaefer, Jack. First Blood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. First edition.
133 pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Original 1/2 yellow cloth over black cloth boards. Near
fine/Near fine. Very slight wear to the extremities. Typical yellowing to pages.
Clipped dust jacket. Minor sunning to spine. Thumbnail-sized piece restored at head
of jacket's spine.
Signed by the author on the title page. Unusually clean example of this fragile jacket. A solid copy of the
author's second novel, dramatized as "Tribute to a Badman," starring James Cagney, in 1956.
$1,500
365. Silko, Leslie. Laguna Woman. Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield
Review Press, 1974. First edition. 35pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near
fine.
First edition of the author's scarce first book. Collection of short works by the celebrated author and
MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient.
$1,500
366. Siodmak, Curt. Donovan's Brain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First
edition. 234pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth. Near fine/Very good. Light rubbing to
extremities of jacket with minor nicking to corners, faint discoloring to rear panel of
jacket. Name small in ink at head of front free endsheet, small stain at head of fore
edge.
The story of a millionaire's brain kept alive after a plane crash that develops telepathic abilities. Basis for
the classic sci-fi film of the same name. Reginald 13243. Bleiler p.180
$300
367. Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. New York: Harper & Brothers
Publishers, 1943. First Edition. 443pp. Octavo [21 cm] Teal cloth with paper label on
backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket has had some minimal professional repairs to
the reverse side. Spine and front panel of jacket are bright. Backstrip and extremities
of boards are lightly sunned.
The acclaimed coming of age nove, that was largely autobiographical of the author's own childhood. Basis
for Elia Kazan's first feature-length film. Both the novel and film were commercial and critical successes
upon there release, and both are still highly revered to this day.
$1,000
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First Work by Beat Legend
368. Snyder, Gary. RIPRAP: a cobble of stone laid on steep slick rock to
make a trail for horses in the mountains. [Ashland, MA]: Origin Press,
1959. First edition. [34pp.] Octavo [21cm] Japanese style dark blue and white wrappers sewn with navy blue thread. White paper label on front panel. Near fine. This
delicate, Japanese-style wrapped edition is extremely fragile and ordinarily subject to
considerable wear.
Signed by the Pulitzer Prize winning author on the title page in his distinctive calligraphic hand. Designed
and edited by Cid Corman. The first edition was printed and bound in Japan with a print run of 500 copies.
First printed work by legendary poet. Snyder's Riprap, along with Ginsberg's Howl and Jack Kerouac's
On the Road are considered to be the holy triumvirate of the beat movement. Snyder went on to spend
many years studying Zen Buddhism in Japan and has also become the poet “laureate of Deep Ecology” as
well. He is one of our finest living poets. Snyder went on to write The Back Country, Turtle Island
(Pulitzer Prize), Regarding Wave, A Place in Space and Mountains and Rivers Without End. McNeil
A1a. Kheridan p.15. $2000
Snyder, Gary. RIPRAP: a cobble of stone laid on steep slick rock to make a trail for horses in the mountains. [Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1960. Second printing. [34pp.] Octavo [21 cm] Japanese style tan and
white wrappers sewn with purple thread. White paper label on front panel. Near fine. This fragile,
Japanese-style wrapped edition is extremely fragile and ordinarily subject to considerable wear.
Signed by the Pulitzer Prize winning author on the title page in his distinctive calligraphed hand. Designed
and edited by Cid Corman. This second printing was limited to 1,000 copies. McNeil A1b. Kheridan p.15.
$450
369. Steadman Ralph. Dogs Bodies. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1970. First edition. [32pp.] Octavo [22.5 cm] White illustrated stapled wrappers. Near Fine. Boldly
signed across two pages in green marker by the author. Early work from the celebrated artist and illustrator.
$300
370. Steadman, Ralph. No Room to Swing a Cat. London: Red Fox Books,
1991. Wrappers with colorful, animated covers. Faint rub at the head and tail of the
spine. Signed and dated (2001) by the author on the half title page with a terrific
hand-drawn cat illustration, all in black pen.
$200
371. Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley
Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1954. First edition. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth. Includes an index
and a large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east,
south, and west from Point Sublime, by William H. Holmes. Near fine/Near fine.
Gentle rubbing to corners of jacket. Very subtle fading to spine of jacket. No price on
jacket's front flap.
A biography of Major John Wesley Powell, commonly referred to as the father of the United States
Geological Survey. Powell was also the first head of the Bureau of American Ethnology. While this work
centers on Powell, it also touches on the surveys of Hayden, King and Wheeler. Colberg A13. 1.a.
$450
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372. Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley
Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska, 1982. Limited Edition, 1/250. 438pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 brown cloth
over tan cloth. Includes an index. Near fine with only subtle sunning to backstrip.
Slipcase also near fine.
Includes the large fold-out of "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado: Panorama looking east, south, and west
from Point Sublime”, by William H. Holmes. New preface by Bernard DeVoto. Colberg A13. 1.i.
$500
373. Stegner, Wallace. Big Rock Candy Mountain. New York: Duell, Sloan, &
Pearce, 1943. First edition. 515pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth. Near fine/Near fine.
Light rubbing to corners with small losses. Faint rubbing to corners of cloth. Minor
spotting to head of textblock. Bookplate on front pastedown. Name stamped on front
free endsheet.
Inscribed by the author on the half title. Although Stegner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel
Angle of Repose, many feel Big Rock to be his finest novel. Major work by twentieth century giant. Colberg
A7
$1,500
Scarce in Jacket
374. Stegner, Wallace. Fire and Ice. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First
edition. 214pp. Blue cloth. Octavo.[20.5 cm.] Fine/Near fine. Subtle yellowing to rear
panel of dust jacket.
Signed by the author on the title page. One of the hardest Stegner titles to locate. Only 2500 were printed,
and less than 2000 sold. Colberg states that more than 500 sets of sheets of 'Fire and Ice' were pulped.
Remarkably scarce in jacket. Early Stegner work that follows the protagonist Paul Condon through his
flirtations with communism. Colberg A5.
$6,000
375. Stegner, Wallace. Mormon Country. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce,
1942. First edition. 362pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth. Index. Near fine/Near fine.
Faint rubbing to corners.
Signed by the author on the half-title. Stegner's history on his childhood home. 'Mormon Country' is a
term that applies to the area that Brigham Young and his followers colonized in the mid to late 19th century. The area includes: Utah, southern Idaho, western Wyoming, western Colorado, all of Nevada and
northern Arizona. This area was originally named Deseret by the Mormons. A bright clean copy. A
volume in the 'American Folkways' series. Colberg #A6.
$900
376. Stegner, Wallace. Preacher and the Slave. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1950. First edition. 403pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with black rules and
title printed in blue on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Subtle nicking to corners of
jacket with small losses. Minor rubbing to extremities of jacket. Gentle fading to
backstrip.
Laid in is a signed card with Stegner's photograph. A scarce Stegner novel based on the life of Joe Hill. Joe
Hill was executed by a firing squad at the old territorial prison in Salt Lake City, in what became known
as the "shot heard round the world", setting off labor riots in major U.S. cities and capitals around the
globe. Joe Hill's last words were "don't mourn, organize". Joe Hill, along with Mother Jones and Big Bill
Heywood, were the most famous of all the anarchist wobbly leaders of the early 20th century. Colberg
#A11.1.a
$750
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377. Stegner, Wallace. Second Growth. Boston: Hougton Mifflin Company,
1947. First edition. 240pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Light green cloth with titles in blue on
the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine.
Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet in the year of publication. Inscription reads "For
____ and ____ - ____- affectionately - Wallace Stegner - Palo Alto, July 9, '47".Colberg A9.1.a.
$1,000
378. Stegner, Wallace. Two Rivers. Covelo: Yolla Bolly, 1989. #4/50. 91pp. Octavo
[26.5 cm] Green cloth. Handmade paper and decoratively printed endsheets. In a
green slipcase. Fine.
Signed by the author on the limitation page. Contents originally appeared in Women on the Wall. A beautifully printed and bound volume.
$650
Dustbowl Ditty
379. Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede Publishers,
1937. First edition, first state. 186 pp. Octavo [19 cm] Tan cloth with printed titles on
front board and backstrip. Near fine/Very good. Spine and extremities of jacket lightly faded. Light chipping to corners with tiny losses. Two faint creases at head of front
and rear panel of jacket.
Print run of this first printing was a minuscule 2,500 copies. One of the great American novels. "Clinging
to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as
drifters will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their
hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry." Hayashi 9.
$3000
380. Tennyson, Alfred. Tennyson Set. London: Macmillan and Company, 1886.
Ten Volume set. Sextodecimo [13 cm] Bound in full red leather. 'Tennyson' and volume number gilt stamped on backstrips. All edges gilt. Housed in a matching leather
box with 'Tennyson' gilt stamped across the front. All volumes fine. Box near fine
with small remnants of a contemporary label on back of box.
Contents include: Early Poems; English Idylls and Other Poems; Enoch Arden and Other Poems; The
Princess; Miscellaneous Poems and Maud; In Memoriam; The Lover's Tale and Other Ballads; Idylls of
the King (in three volumes). A beautiful set.
$600
381. Thompson, Hunter S. The Curse of Lono. Koln: Taschen, 2005. First edition thus. 205pp. Folio [38 cm] White matte boards with printed titles in black on
front board and backstrip. Fine in like jacket.
First hardback edition of this Gonzo gem that seemed to be largely ignored upon its release, and is only now
being seen for what it is - one of Thompson's greatest works. As much as 'Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas'
was about a motorcycle race, 'The Curse of Lono' is about the Honolulu Marathon. Wonderfully illustrated by Ralph Steadman, who was along for most of the events described within. Many of the illustrations in
full color, and full page.
$250
382.
Tolkien, J[ohn] R[onald] R[uell]. Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The
Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, [c.1965]. Second editions, later printings
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(Ninth, Eighth, Eighth respectively). 423, 352, 440pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark blue
cloth. Illustrated with fold-out maps at the rear of all three volumes. Index. All volumes near fine in like jackets. Jackets price clipped. Short, closed tear to jacket of
'Fellowship' at head of spine. Publisher’s slipcase also near fine with subtle rubbing to
corners.
These revised second editions were printed after the now infamous unauthorized paperback editions by
ACE books.
$500
383. Traven, B. The Death Ship: The Story of an American Sailor. New
York: Knopf, 1934. First American edition. 372 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth. Near
fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. Minor wear to foot of boards. Bright, attractive
copy.
Edition penned in English by the author; considerably revised and rewritten. It is 61 pages longer than the
British edition of the same year, and is a superior translation. Treverton 32
$2,000
384. Traven, B. The Death Ship: The Story of an American Sailor.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. First UK edition. 311 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brick red
cloth. Very good/Near fine. Jacket shows minor sunning to extremities with chipping
at foot and head of spine. Light sunning to backstrip. First English language edition of
this novel, which preceded the American edition. Translated by Eric Sutton.
Traven's most brilliant novel. It is a sardonic work about identity and a satire on the faceless bureaucracy.
The American sailor, Gales, has no papers, therefore, in the eyes of the authorities, he doesn't exist. In order
to escape from Europe, he is forced to sign aboard a "Death Ship". Treverton 31
$3,000
385. Traven, B. Land des Fruhlings. Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1928. First
edition. 429 + 63pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full grained red Moroccan with gilt stamped
title on front board and backstrip. Satin ribbon bookmark. Near fine. Gentle fading
to backstrip. Faint rubbing to corners.
Complete with a folding map of Chiapas. Includes 63 pages of black and white photographs by B. Traven.
Scarce in this beautiful presentation leather binding.
$950
386. Traven, B. Das Totenschiff [The Death Ship]. Hamburg: Freunde Der
Weltliteratur, 1951. 320pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] German language. Twenty separate,
staple-bound gatherings with outer paper wrappers. Outer paper wrapper has handwritten title to the front cover and spine. This may possibly have been published as a
twenty part serial. The front cover of the first 16 page gathering has some ink notations and two ink stamps. Overall very good. Housed in a custom clamshell box with
a tooled, leather spine, cloth boards and marbled papers lining the inside of the box.
$600
“Badges, we don’t need no stinking badges…”
387. Traven, B. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1935. First American edition. 366pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth. Very good/
Very good. Shows minor overall discoloring with chipping to extremities, more so at
corners and rear panel .Minor foxing to endsheets and page edges. Internally fine.
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Considerable staining on obverse of jacket. Despite all the flaws, a mostly complete
dust jacket to one of the most elusive and sought after titles in twentieth century
literature. Extremely scarce dust jacket.
Traven’s best known work is a tale of greed and gold (in large part because of the John Huston film of the
same name). The American edition was a new edition written in English by the author and has 100 more
pages than the British edition. Treverton 261.
$1500
388. Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s
Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First edition. 366pp.
Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth with illustrated board with gilt stamped titles on the
front board. Very good. Extremities rubbed, more so at corners. Hinges a little shaky.
Foot of backstrip frayed. 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble. We believe this to be a first
state with the points described in Johnson's bibliography. Overall, a nice copy of this
classic. Johnson pp. 43-50. BAL 3414. McBride pp. 92-93.
$1,500
389. Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's
Comrade) & Adventures of Tom Sawyer (two volume set). London: Chatto &
Windus, Piccadilly, 1884 & 1889. First edition & "A New Edition". 438 + [32] pp. ads.
Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Very
Good. Head of boards faded. Backstrip shows subtle fading. Light bumping and rubbing to corners. Hinges shaky. Short gift inscription on the half title from the year of
publication. Closed tear to foot of half-title and frontis. 309 + [32] pp. ads. Octavo.
Red cloth with gilt stamped titles on front board and backstrip. Very Good. Head of
boards faded. Backstrip shows subtle fading. Light bumping and rubbing to corners.
Foot of backstrip has an inch-long closed tear.
This 'Huck Finn' is the true first edition preceding the American edition by a few months. Illustrated by
E.W. Kemble. An American classic that is still widely read and studied. BAL 3414.
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral
in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." A set of American classics.
$1,500
390. Twain, Mark Tramp Abroad. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company,
1880. First edition, second state (Titian's Moses). 631pp. Octavo [24 cm] Rebound in
full leather with title gilt stamped on backstrip and raised bands. New marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Internally fine.
A travel narrative of the author's time in southern and central Europe. Considered by many to be the unofficial sequel to 'Innocents Abroad'
$750
391. Tyler, Anne. Tin Can Tree. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition.
273 pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 red cloth over light blue boards. Near fine/Near fine.
Subtle nicking to corners of jacket. Light bumping to corners of boards. Two small
spots to top fore edge stain.
The award-winning author's second novel. Story revolves around the death of young girl, and how this
affects the intertwined lives of a small Southern community.
$1,250
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A History of Violence
392. Vollmann, William T. Rising Up and Rising Down (seven volume set). San
Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2003. First edition. 332, 556, 495, 340, 623, 670,
282pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth over brown cloth boards. 'MC' volume
bound in full black cloth. Gilt bands and titles on backstrips. Titles gilt stamped on
front board. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. housed in publisher's red slip case. All
volumes near fine or better.
Volume I. Three Meditations on Death, Introduction: The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely
Atoms. - Volume II. Justifications: Honor, Class, Authority, Race and Culture, Creed. - Volume III.
Justifications: War Alms, Homeland, Ground, Earth, Animals, Gender, Traitors, Revolution. - Volume
IV. Justifications: Deterrence, Punishment, Loyalty, Sadism, Moral Yellowness, Inevitably. Evaluations:
Safeguards, The Victim. - Volume V. Studies in Consequences: Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa. - Volume
VI. Studies in Consequences: The Muslim World, North America, South America, Perception and
Irrationality. - Volume 'MC'. Annotated Contents, The Moral Calculus, Index, Annexes, Sources Cited.
This set represents Vollmann's seventeen year labor of love, a history of violence. Rising Up... was also a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. "From the street violence of prostitutes and junkies to
the centuries-long battles between the Native Americans and European colonists, Vollmann's mesmerizing
imagery and compelling logic is presented with authority born of astounding research and personal experience." - Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's managing editor.
$550
393. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A
Duty-Dance With Death. New York: Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte
Press, 1969. First edition. 186pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth. Near fine/Near fine.
Subtle spotting to head of boards. Jacket is sunned at the spine and along the edges.
Internally fine.
The strange adventures of Billy Pilgrim in the universe. High point for this literary heavy. Pieratt AH1.
Reginald 14740. Currey p. 504
$1,250
394. Welty, Eudora. Robber Bridegroom. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran &
Company, Inc., 1942. First edition. 185pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth. Near fine/Very
good. Faint rubbing to corners of boards. Minor nicking to corners of jacket.
A modern fairy tale set on the Natchez Trace. The author won almost all of the major literary awards, only
the Nobel eluded her (a major oversight to many). One of the all-time great short story writers, and a giant
of Southern literature.
$800
395. Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1900.
Facsimile edition. 563pp. Octavo [21 cm.] 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbled
endsheets. Facsimile of hand-written biographical note, bound between the contents
page and 'Inscriptions' page. Very good with minor rubbing to boards.
Overall an actractive copy of this classic by the "Good Grey Poet"
$300
Harlem Renaissance Highpoint
396. Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas. New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. 317pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth
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with title printed in blue within gray panels on front board and backstrip. Near
fine/Near fine. Jacket shows faint rubbing at corners. Jacket is price clipped. Gentle
bumping to lower corners of boards. Overall a nice clean copy of this major work of
twentieth century literature.
First work from this influential American writer. These stories of racism in the rural south were shaped by
Wright's childhood, and would later help shape the cultural attitudes that would launch the American
Civil Rights movement. This volume consists of the four short works: 'Big Boy Leaves Home', 'Down by
the Riverside', 'Long Black Song' and 'Fire and Cloud'
"This is a book about hatreds. Mr. Wright serves notice by his title that he speaks of a people in revolt, and
his stories are so grim that the Dismal Swamp of race hatred must be where they live. Not one act of understanding and sympathy comes to pass in the entire work" - Zora Neale Hurston
$3,500
397. Young, Neil. Greendale. London: Sanctuary, 2004. First edition. Illustrations
by James Mazzeo. Square quarto. In pictorial wraps, produced simultaneously with
the hardbound first edition. Signed on the front free endsheet by both author an
illustrator.
Neil Young's "Author trading card" from The Booksmith in San Francisco, where the signing took place,
tipped in at front. Publisher's plastic wrap with descriptive label tipped in at rear. "The story of a tragic
event and its effects on three generations of an American family, Neil Young's Greendale, originally
described as a 'musical novel', has already produced a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed album, film,
and multimedia tour...This book is the Greendale experience brought to a glorious conclusion, and a must
for any fan of Neil Young's work."
$200
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