Mormon Tabernacle Salt Lake City
by Johnson, Charles Ellis
Salt Lake City: The Johnson Company, 1897. Boudoir cabinet card. Albumen photograph [12.5 cm x 20.5 cm] / [5" x 8"] on a tan mount [13.5 cm x 21.5 cm] / [5.5" x 8.5"] Title in the negative. Minor overall wear with corners bumped. Exterior view of the Tabernacle at Temple Square. The Salt Lake Tabernacle took three years to construct (1864-1867) and was later described by Frank Lloyd Wright as "one of the architectural masterpieces of the country... Read More
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Eagle Gate
by [Johnson, Charles Ellis]
[Salt Lake City]: [Sainsbury & Johnson], 1892. Cabinet card[10.5 cm x 15 cm] gelatin silver print on a dark gray mount [15 cm x 20 cm] with the title in the lower left corner of the image. Gentle rubbing to the corners of the mount with five discolorations near the extremities from tape removal. Image has nice contrasts. Image of Eagle Gate from the south looking up East Temple [State] Street with a Salt Lake Railroad street car and... Read More
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Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast
by Johnson, Clifton
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. First Edition. 323pp. Octavo [20 cm] Dark green publisher's binding with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip and two-color illustrated front board showing a road winding through trees (palms on the right - pines on the left). Top edge gilt. Very good. Complete with all 62 plates. Included are two letters. A single page TLS on letterhead from Pasadena based bookseller, S.F. McLean, to the author Clifton Johnson. The... Read More
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The Story of the Mormon Miracle
by Johnson, Grace
Salt Lake City, 1973. First Edition. 81pp. Quarto [28 cm] Comb-bound blue printed wrappers. Better than very good. Self-published history of the much beloved, and now defunct, Manti Mormon Miracle Pageant, colloquially known as the 'Manti Pageant'. The Pageant was a live action telling of the Book of Mormon and the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the grounds of the Manti Temple. At its height, 15,000 people a night (over two weeks -... Read More
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Death Valley Scotty: The Man and the Myth
by Johnston, Hank
Yosemite, CA: Flying Spur Press, 1972. Second Edition. 48pp. Quarto [28 cm] Orange printed wrappers. Near fine. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and a map of Death Valley on rear cover. "His name was Walter Scott, but he was known to the world as 'Death Valley Scotty.' He toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, then achieved national prominence in 1905 when he chartered a special train to break the speed record from Los Angeles to... Read More
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From Housewife to Heretic
by Johnson, Sonia
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981. First Edition. 406pp. Duodecimo [21.5 cm] 1/2 maroon cloth over tan boards. Very good/Near fine. Closed tear to foot of jacket's cover. Warmly inscribed on the front free endsheet: "To Ila, To do wonderful, courageous, and outrageous things for women all the days of your life. Your sister, Sonia Johnson." Sonia Johnson (born 1936), who was a member of the LDS Church from birth, began speaking out in support of the ERA in... Read More
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Trappers and Mountain Men
by Jones, Evans [Dale L. Morgan]
Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1961. First Edition. 153pp. Octavo [26 cm] Illustrated boards. Fine. Morgan was a consultant for this profusely illustrated children's history that covers major details in the history of the North American fur trade from the earliest French efforts in the latter seventeenth century to the settlement of the Oregon Question in the 1830s. Saunders 38.
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Badger Pass - Yosemite
by Jones, J.H.
1940. Large silver gelatin photograph [33 cm x 24 cm] / [13" x 9.5"] on a tan mount. Titled, signed, and dated in pencil on the mount beneath the image. Minor age toning to mount with a few small bumps and chips. Image has strong contrasts. California Camera Club label on the back of the mount. Nice view of skiers coming down the hill and others milling about at the base at Yosemite National Park's Badger Pass Ski Area.... Read More
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Grand Canyon / Colorado River Scroll Map
by Jones, Leslie Allen
Heber, UT: Western Whitewater, 1962. Mimeograph scroll map [18 cm x 1371.5 cm] / [7" x 540"] on paper. Better than very good. First two feet (of this 45 foot map) has seven quarter sized chips to the foot. Highly detailed river runner's guide to floating the Grand from Lee's Ferry to Temple Bar and the Overton Arm of Lake Mead, by river running legend, Les Jones. Map notes all of the major rapids and how to navigate them... Read More
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Green River Scroll Map [Desolation Canyon]
by Jones, Leslie Allen
Heber, UT: Western Whitewater, 1960. Mimeograph scroll map [24 cm x 528 cm] [9.5" x 208"] on paper. Nice condition. Near fine. Presumably unused. Highly detailed river runner's guide to floating 180 miles of the Green River from Jenson to Green River City, by river running legend, Les Jones. Map notes all of the major rapids. Also contains mileage and tips for boaters, as well as an elevation table. Historical points and runs are noted with commentary. "These... Read More
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Guarding the Overland Trails: The Eleventh Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War
by Jones, Robert Huhn
Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005. First Edition. 367pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and the backstrip. Near fine. Frontier Military Series XXIV (24). The Civil War left the western trails vulnerable and dangerous. Emigrants still streamed westward and demanded protection. The mail still had to be delivered, the telegraph protected. The newly minted states of California and Oregon on the Pacific Coast were precious to the government... Read More
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'The Executive of Utah' Selected Utah War Documents and Commentary Relating to Thomas L. Kane's Lost Lecture in Defense of Governor Alfred Cumming New York Historical Society 21 March 1859
by Kane, Thomas L. Introduced and edited by William P. MacKinnon
Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2016. 1/55. 29pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by MacKinnon on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 11 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'At Sword's Point, Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859.' The Utah War of 1857-58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil Wars.... Read More
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The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions
by Kauffman, Ruth and Reginald Wright Kauffman
London: Williams & Norgate, 1912. First Edition. 363pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. This uncommon work by the American journalists Ruth Kauffman and Reginald Wright Kauffman reflects their belief as Marxists that the Mormon church was a victim of a capitalistic society. The Kauffmans' intention was to summarize the widespread anti-Mormon sentiment that appeared in the American press during the late nineteenth century. They believed that... Read More
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The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
by Kelly, Charles
Salt Lake City, 1938. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown pebbled cloth with the title on the front board. Very good. The Outlaw Trail is the definitive work on Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and is based on decades of research and interviews with the surviving outlaws and their descendants. The Wild Bunch, was a confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, who found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado,... Read More
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Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood: Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer of the West
by Kelly, Charles
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1936. First Edition. 128pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green grained cloth with a blind stamped pioneer motif and the title in a gilt panel on the front board. Near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. The printing of this book was limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 114. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in the early West. From his early days along the Missouri River as a trapper until years later... Read More
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Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood: Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer of the West
by Kelly, Charles
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1936. First Edition. 128pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green grained cloth with a blind stamped pioneer motif and the title in a gilt panel on the front board. Near fine/Near fine. The printing of this book was limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 221. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: 'To Dwight From Charley.' Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in the early West. From his early days... Read More
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Miles Goodyear. First Citizen of Utah: Trapper, Trader and California Pioneer
by Kelly, Charles and Maurice L. Howe
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition. 152pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good/Very good. Spine of jacket sunfaded. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author, Charles Kelly, on the front free endsheet. The printing of this book was limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 344. Goodyear went overland to the Rockies with the Whitman party in 1836 to seek independence and... Read More
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Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood: Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer of the West
by Kelly, Charles and Dale L. Morgan
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Revised Edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Very good/Very good. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in the early West. From his early days along the Missouri River as a trapper until years later as an octogenarian he piloted the Ide Party over the Sierra Nevada in 1845, Greenwood was involved with many of the great happenings that shaped the Western history. This book deals... Read More
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The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776
by Kessell, John L.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. First Edition. 276pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan cloth. Near fine/Near fine. This nicely illustrated works offers an intimate portrayal of life in the eighteenth-century New Mexico and a marvelously detailed look at its missions and pueblos.
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Blake Studies: Notes on His Life and Works in Seventeen Chapters
by Keynes, Geoffrey [William Blake]
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. First Edition. 208+48pp. Quarto [26 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket is price clipped. Bookplate on front pastedown and name in ink on the front free endsheet. With 48 collotype plates at the rear. This work offers an elaboration of incidents and episodes in Blake's life with the occasional textual criticism of his works that is nicely illustrated.
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Life of David P. Kimball and Other Sketches
by Kimball, Solomon F.
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1918. First Edition. 128pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. David Patten Kimball (1839-1883) was the son of Heber C. Kimball and an early Mormon leader. Kimball was one of the three young men of the Sweetwater handcart rescue (1856). Later he served as President of the Bear Lake Stake in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. In 1877 he setttled in... Read More
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Thrilling Experiences
by Kimball, Solomon Farnham
Salt Lake City: Magazine Printing Company, 1909. First Edition. 157pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Neat contemporary inscription on the front pastedown. Rare first edition of this autobiographical collection of twelve stories of pioneer life in Utah by Heber C. Kimball's son, Solomon F. Kimball (1847-1920). Most of these appeared previously in the pages of the Improvement Era. "These articles are not only of a... Read More
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Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
by Kimball, Stanley B.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981. First Edition. 343pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page. Bright copy of this well received and well researched biography of this early LDS leader. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Heber Chase Kimball (1801-1868) was an influential Mormon leader. Born in Vermont, he later moved to upstate New York where he met Brigham Young. In 1832 he... Read More
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[Cowboy and Horses]
by King, B.A.
1971. Silver gelatin print [25 cm x 20 cm] / [10" x 8"]. Strong contrasts. Signed on the back: "B.A. King." In a glassine sleeve. Nice view of horses coming down a trail with a mounted cowboy bringing up the rear. Bruce Anthony King (1934-2017) was a Toronto born photographer and contemporary artist who was educated at The Whitney School, The Bancroft School, The Crescent School, The Upper Canada College Preparatory School, St. Andrews College, and Hamilton College. His... Read More
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Plenty Coups
by King, Charles E.
Livingston, MT: C.E. & Hattie King, 1900. Silver gelatin photograph [18 cm x 13 cm] / [7" x 5"] matted and in a wooden frame [30 cm x 25 cm] / [12" x 10"] In nice condition with good contrasts. Manuscript note on the reverse of the photograph: "Order from numbers on back of print. Can supply any order desired at 50 cts. ea. Address Livingston, Mont. Your friend C.E. King." Full portrait of Plenty Coups (c.1848-1932) in a... Read More
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