Salt Lake City. 1938. 405pp. Facsimiles. Illus. Frontis. Gilt cloth. About fine, with news clipping laid in. Good reference, listing the newspapers by city or town, dates of publication, etc.
Columbus: Long's College Book Co., 1951. xvii,601,[2]pp. plus frontispiece portrait and seventeen plates. Large octavo. Original pebbled maroon cloth, gilt spine title, front board with embossed portrait and title gilt. Moderate shelf wear, interior clean. Very good. This is the "special definitive edition" of the 1924 original, an expanded edition.....
Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680pp. plus 116 lithographic plates (five of them double-page). Most portrait plates with an accompanying unnumbered leaf of text, or with biographical text on the plate. Text printed in double columns. Small, thick folio. Modern buckram, spine gilt, leather label, a.e.g. Very clean internally. Near.....
Washington. 1916. 96pp. Maps. Illus. Cloth. Some pencil underscoring, contemporary inscription in pencil dated 1925 on titlepage, else very good. Includes material on the Pottawattamie Indians and the Mormons.
Montréal: Granger Frères, 1890. 323,[1]pp. plus several illustrations and folding map. Later blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Bookplate on front pastedown, front free endpaper and titlepage detached. Moderate uniform browning, paper slightly brittle. Overall, still very good. The narrative of a six-month tour of the Rockies. Most notable for its extensive.....
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Co., 1883. 28pp. Lacks original wrappers, in Gaylor binder. Good. An argument against the prohibition of polygamy, not because it is divinely justified by "a false religion," but because of such prohibition's violation of local governmental prerogatives. Black delivered this address within six months of.....
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, [ca. 1890]. 248,[4]pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Front cover detached and heavily chipped. Spine and rear cover chipped. Titlepage detached, first few leaves chipped. Fair. A later printing of one of the rarest of outlaw narratives, first printed in Chicago in 1850. The author describes the.....
Springfield. 1865. 452pp. Lacks the map. Edgeworn, hinges broken, else good. The second issue with the added pages on California and the mines by William Ashburner. Bowles' party left Kansas in May 1865, reached San Francisco in July, and travelled thence to Oregon and Washington by steamer. In August they.....
Plano, Il. Published by the Church of J.C. of L.D. Saints, 1869. 48pp. Original printed yellow wrappers. Some slight dampstaining in upper margin of rear wrapper. Generally clean and fresh. In a folding marbled boards case. The third edition of this pamphlet, the first having appeared in 1864 in San.....
New York. 1884. 197pp. Original gilt cloth. Wear to extremities, else very good. With a long section on the West under "Seeking New Homes."
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1972. 5-404pp. plus seventeen illustrations. Portrait frontispiece. Original red cloth. Very good. In dust jacket. A biography of Lee that attempts to explain his role as leader in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. With a remarkable chart of Lee's polygamy.
New York. 1865. 231pp. plus plates and 8pp. of ads. Frontis. Original cloth. Cloth rubbed. Good. One of a series of satirical books written by Browne under the pseudonym of Artemus Ward, illustrated by Mullen. Includes several chapters concerning the Mormons, as well as an account of a trip to.....
[Liverpool: Wm. Budge, 1879]. 16pp. Self-wrappers. Punch hole in blank gutter. Stained. Very good. Delivered by Budge at a London Conference at Goswell Hall, Dec. 9, 1879, and frequently reprinted and published abroad in several languages.
Stuttgart. 1854. Two volumes. [6],390; [6],381pp. Modern three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Light scattered foxing. Very good. An important travel narrative by a learned German who was keenly interested in American customs, religions, politics, and folklore. The author's training in theology explains his interest in.....
Boston. 1911. 402pp. Portrait. Gilt cloth. Front hinge cracked but sound. Very good. The author was the son of George Q. Cannon, First Councillor of the Mormon Church from 1880 to 1901.
Galena: The Gazette Publishing Company, 1899. 304pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth, gilt title on front board and spine. Light edge wear. Very good. Chetlain, who had a long personal connection with Ulysses S. Grant, held a variety of assignments during the Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of.....
New York. 1850. 456pp. plus plates, folding facsimile, and map. Portrait. Original cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate removed. Light dampstaining affecting several leaves at upper fore-edge corner. Else good. First edition of this popular and often reprinted narrative, which Howes calls both "interesting and valuable." Colton arrived.....
New York. 1872. 224pp. including illustrations, plus 8pp. of advertisements, and six folding sheets with additional advertisements, plates, and maps printed on both sides. 12mo. Original gilt cloth, a.e.g. Cloth stained and a bit loose on rear board. Some closed tears at gutter edge of folding plates, otherwise only minor.....
Chicago. 1880. 282pp. plus numerous illustrated advertisements, maps, and folding plates. Original red cloth. Spine sunned, cloth rubbed, front board mostly detached, rear hinge starting. A good copy. The new Crofutt guide was first published in 1878, and made an annual appearance with revisions for some time thereafter. A delightful.....
Omaha. 1880. 281,[1]pp. plus seventeen (of eighteen) folding plates. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in black. Extremities worn, inner hinges cracked. Contemporary ownership inscription and markings. Some light soiling. Fair. The new Crofutt guide was first published in 1878, and made an annual appearance with revisions for some time thereafter. This.....
Omaha & Denver. 1883. 275pp. plus eighteen double-page plates. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in black. Extremities worn, inner hinges cracked. Some light wear to contents. Final leaf stuck to rear endpaper. Fair. First published in 1879, this popular guide was reprinted several times. Extensively illustrated.
St. Paul, Ne. [ 1902]. 160pp. Original red cloth. Spine slightly darkend, worn at fore-edge and toe of spine, hinges cracked. Good. An extremely prejudiced anti-Mormon item. Published in association with PRESENT TRUTH, a conservative Christian magazine, Crowe's diatribe against Mormonism begins with an attack on Joseph Smith's parents (indolent.....
New York: Hermann J. Meyer, [ 1855]. Two volumes. 180,154pp. plus seventy-nine steel-engraved plates. Extra engraved titlepages. Tissue guards. Quarto. Original blue publisher's cloth. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Minor scattered foxing. Very good plus. Dana's work contains handsome steel engravings of scenes throughout the country, many of.....
Gand: Ve. Vander Schelden, [1848]. [4],389pp. plus three folding maps and fifteen lithographic plates (including frontispiece). Lithographic titlepage with vignette. Original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers detached (but present), with chips to edges and recently reinforced with Japan paper, binding separated in several places. One-inch closed tear to first map (just.....
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1863. 175pp. plus plate and frontispiece. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, lightly faded and edgeworn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown. An occasional fox mark. Very good overall. The famed missionary's account of his travels as U.S. army chaplain.....
