Phoenix. 1930. Four volumes. Illus. Tall octavo. Original fabrikoid, spines gilt. Slight edge wear. Overall a very good set. An extensive historical and biographical work on Arizona. The first two volumes are devoted to the history of the state, and the other two contain biographies of notable Arizonians. Includes sections.....
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.
Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680pp. plus 116 lithographic plates. Small, thick folio. Modern buckram, spine gilt, leather label. Near fine. "This classic work is the most used and quoted history of any ever issued of the state. It is likely to remain forever the all time Nevada book, for.....
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, 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 California.....
[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.
London. 1861. x,[2],707pp. plus frontispiece and eight plates (one folding) and folding map. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label, gilt crest of the Earl of Derby on the front board. Front board neatly rehinged. Very clean and fresh internally. Very good. The famed British traveller.....
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 American.....
Boston. 1911. 402pp. Portrait. Gilt cloth. Front hinge cracked but sound. Very good. The author was the son of George Q. Cannon, First Councillor 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 foredge corner. Else good. First edition of this popular and often reprinted narrative, which Howes calls both "interesting and valuable." Colton arrived.....
Chicago. 1880. 282pp. plus advertisements, maps, and folding plates. Original red cloth. Spine sunned, scuffed. A good copy. The new Crofutt guide was first published in 1878, and made an annual appearance with revisions for some time thereafter.
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 foredge 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.....
Utica, N.Y: R. Northway, Printer, 1842. 48pp., plus six plates. 12mo. Original printed brown wrappers. Some chipping to spine, minor staining and foxing to wrappers, mild edge wear. Scattered minor foxing. Very good. A rare almanac-style compendium and traveler's guide to mid-19th-century America, with notable content on slave populations and.....
Washington: Printed for the Author, 1886. 32pp. Original printed wrappers, inserted in Gaylord binder. Very good. An eloquent defense of the Mormon cause regarding plural marriage on legal, not religious grounds, by the noted author/jurist. Not included in his BAL entry, by definition.
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 them.....
