The Coeur D'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Saturday July 30, 2005
Great Falls, MT: Advanced Litho Printing, 2005. Original catalogue. Paperback. Very good. Quarto [28 cm] Pictorial wraps. Illustrated in full color, including some full-page fold-outs. With light wear to the foot of the spine. Property from the Denver Art Museum; Property from the Collection of Robert and Madeline Dickerman; Property from the private collection, Estes Park, Colorado; Property from the Collection of Idaho Forest Industries; Property from a Midwestern Trust; Property from a Montana Collection; Property from the... Read More
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George Hayduke" Rye Pale Ale Commemorative Monkey Wrench Gang Beer Poster
A. Fisher Brewing Company; Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2020. Limited Silkscreen Print. New. R. Crumb. [14.5'' x 13.25''] Gold and black screen-printed poster depicting one of R. Crumb's illustrations of "George Hayduke," one of the main protagonists from Ed Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang," as adapted for a beer label in a collaboration between A. Fisher Brewing Co. and Ken Sanders Rare Books. The second of six posters commemorating "The Monkey Wrench Gang" beer that was produced in... Read More
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Nauvoo Guide: American Guide Series
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1939. Hardcover. 49pp. Octavo. Rebound in black buckram with new endsheets and pastedowns added. Original wrapper covers present. Near fine. Name in ink on new front free endsheet. Illustrated with photographs. Traces the founding of Nauvoo by the Mormons, which at the time of the exodus was a bustling city of over 20,000 people. (In contrast to Chicago 5,000 and Sprigfield 2,000). One of the scarcer WPA guides.
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Scientific American: A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Vol. XVI, No. 23
New York: Scientific American, 1867. Very good. [16pp]. 40 cm. Outermost sheet split along much of its length, a few short tears, else very light wear. There is an article on page 364 about the construction of the Salt Lake Tabernacle, accompanied by a large steel engraving of the building in progress. The Salt Lake Temple was also under construction at this time, and is briefly mentioned.
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Joaquin Miller Signed Correspondence
New York Harbor, Ship Oceanic, No date. Very good. One page letter. [20 cm x 12 cm]. Some minor smudges, otherwise very good +. First line reads, "Your note just arrived. We are drifting out to the South...". Joaquin Miller was an American poet who wrote about the West in a characteristically brusk voice. Cementing his reputation as a frontiersmen, he became known as the "Poet of the Sierras". Before his death in 1913, he had been a... Read More
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United States of America Through the Stereoscope: One Hundred Outlooks from Successive Positions in Different Parts of the World's Greatest Republic
United States of America: Underwood & Underwood, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 177pp. Duodecimo [19cm]; brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine and top board. Small chunk missing from head of backstrip; shelf wear to the boards and backstrip. Stain on front free endpaper; library stamp from Oliver Wendell Holmes Stereoscopic Research Library on front free endpaper. Includes four folding maps. A guidebook to accompany a set of stereographs that were taken all accross the... Read More
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Annual Report of the Trustees Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery 1973-74, 1974-75
1976. Illustrated. Paperback. 62pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Stapled red and black illustrated wraps. Very good condition. The spine is subtly faded. Tiny numerical notation in pen on the top edge of the first page. Internally very clean. The cover is of a Tumbuan Mask Costume.
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Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations Manual 1897-8
Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Publishing Co, 1898. Hardcover. Good. 73pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Originally published in brown wrappers. Rebound in 1/4 pebbled cloth over marbled boards, with stained textblock edges. Light rubbing to boards. Ex-library with multiple markings, including a label on the front board and bookplate on the front pastedown. Subject: The Life of Jesus Flake 2294a.
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Inventory of the County Archives of Utah: No. 5 Daggett County (Manilla)
Ogden, UT: Historical Records Survey Project, 1939. Paperback. 133pp. Quarto. Brown wrappers with reinforced backstrip. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. Index. Bibliography. Very good plus.
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Nordstjarnan. Organ for de Sista Dagarnes Helige i Sverige. Tjugonde argangen. Tjuguforsta argangen (The North Star)
Kopenhamn: C. N. Lund, 1897. Hardcover. Good. Octavo [21.5 cm] 3/4 dark red cloth with brown decorative paper over boards. Extremities rubbed; covers a bit cocked; discreet ownership stamps on the preliminary pages; text block cracked multiple times. Flake 5862. Publication of the Swedish Mission.
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Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations Manual 1897-8
Salt Lake City, UT: General Board. Leather bound. 77+92+130+144+128+132pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Very good. Title page of Y.M.M.I.A. 1900-1901 chipped at extremities with loss, missing map index from 1898-99, last 10 pages missing from 1900-1901. , Subject: Life of Jesus. & Y.M.M.I.A. Manual, 1898-9, Subject: The Apostolic Age. & Y.M.M.I.A. Manual. 1899-1900. Subject: Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. Part I. (1805-1839). & Y.M.M.I.A. Manual. 1900-1901. Subject: Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. Part... Read More
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Ken Sanders Rare Books T-Shirt - Unisex Black (S)
Salt Lake City: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2017. The perfect shirt for the stylishly bookish! (KSRB Tee). Chest measurement: 45cm. SMALL. Store logo in light grey ink on black tee. 100% cotton.
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The Desert Magazine Volume 7, Number 2 - December 1943
El Centro, CA: Desert Publishing Company, 1943. Original edition. Paperback. 39pp. Quarto [30 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good condition. Subjects covered include Hadjina (Place of Emegence), the rock of Acoma, an adobe home, petrified wood, and much more.
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![Salt Lake City: Seven Days in and Around "The Center of Scenic America" [7 Wonderful One-Day Trips In and Around Salt Lake City and Utah]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/435/956/1544956435.0.l.jpg)
Salt Lake City: Seven Days in and Around "The Center of Scenic America" [7 Wonderful One-Day Trips In and Around Salt Lake City and Utah]
Salt Lake City, UT: The Chamber of Commerce, 1929. Later printing. Ephemera. Brochure on a sheet of paper printed on both sides and folded once horizontally through the center, then folded vertically four times.
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Place of Promise: A History of Genola, Utah
Privately printed, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 301pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Pictorial boards. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very good. The covers are very slightly concave, and the edges of the spine and covers are barely perceptibly bumped and rubbed. There is a faint indentation in the front cover that runs vertically from the head to the base. Comprehensive history of this small community in the southern end of Utah County, near Payson and Spanish Fork. Compiled by committee.... Read More
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![Fabian Bocklich's Pink Elephant Ideas Given At Homestead Branch L.D.S. Church. 48th & U Streets. Friday Dec. 9th, 1932 [Sacramento, California]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/324/772/1511772324.0.l.jpg)
Fabian Bocklich's Pink Elephant Ideas Given At Homestead Branch L.D.S. Church. 48th & U Streets. Friday Dec. 9th, 1932 [Sacramento, California]
Ephemera. Flyer [22 cm x 15 cm] printed on both sides. With a handful of small chips to the edges and a small open tear to the surface.
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Register of the Perry Swisher Collection
Pocatello, ID: Eli M. Oboler Library, Idaho State University, 1985. Original edition. Spiral Bound. 31pp. Very slim quarto [28 cm] Black plastic spiral binding with brown and black printed wraps. A register detailing the Perry Swisher Collection, received by the library in 1968, and containing numerous boxes of correspondence, newspaper clippings, subject files, and legislative publications. The heart of the collection relates to Swisher's newspaper and political activities, and covers a variety of subjects such as civil rights, education,... Read More
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![Smith Family Home [Nauvoo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/567/1405567826.0.l.jpg)
Smith Family Home [Nauvoo]
South Royalton, Vermont: Grave's Studio, 1900. Photograph. 8 x 10" photograph. The photograph features Joseph, Hyrum, and Lucy Mack Smith portraits above the fireplace mantle. Grave's Studio backstamp. A bit of moisture damage (not affecting image) and chipping to extremities of mount.
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![Encyclopædia [Encyclopedia] Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; Constructed on a Plan, by which the Different Sciences and Arts ade digested into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems (18 volumes plus 2 supplementary volumes)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/284/1700284056.0.l.jpg)
Encyclopædia [Encyclopedia] Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; Constructed on a Plan, by which the Different Sciences and Arts ade digested into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems (18 volumes plus 2 supplementary volumes)
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1801. Third edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Twenty books in all. ***Will require extra postage due to weight. Shipping outside of the United States is strongly discouraged. Quarto [28 cm] 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper over boards. Gilt tooled spines. Ribbon page-markers. Rubbing to the extremities. Handful of minor chips to the leather spines. Underlying boards exposed occasionally along the surfaces and edges. Periodic light soiling and foxing. "The... Read More
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Souvenir of Logan, Utah... Cache Valley. Photo-Gravures
Logan, Utah: Wilkinson & Son, 1910. View book. Paperback. Very good. Oblong sextodecimo [13.5 cm x 18.5 cm] Pale green wraps, bound with string (which is present and threaded, but broken in one place), with a front wrap illustration of the Court House. The wraps are lightly rubbed and creased, and just a little stained. There is a brief Christmas gift inscription on the title page, dated "1910." Very occasional light soiling or foxing to the pages. With... Read More
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Wonders of Utah Geology: Bulletin of the University of Utah: Vol 10
Salt Lake City, UT: Arrow Press, 1919. Paperback. Very good. 24pp. Octavo [24cm]; saddle stitch brown paper wraps. Corners of the wraps are bumped. Internal contents very good+. Binding still holding strong.v. Small guidebook covering geology specific to Utah.
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Eleven Nearly Consecutive Issues of Inland (Incorporating INTERIM)
Thin octavo [23 cm] Saddle-stitched wraps. Ex-libris John Schow. Schow, a longtime local bookseller, was on the editorial board of Inland, and was often a contributor. These issues contain a number of manuscript notations by Schow's contributions. Above the poem "Ex Libris" he has written "For May C. Flint" He has also crossed the title out and written "Book Mark." Next to "The Moth" he writes "In dedication, I'm not likening May to the Moth- but because May's friendship... Read More
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Tres Generaciones: Rodolfo Morales; Francisco Toledo; Julian Galan
Mexico: Confederación de Educadores Americanos, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 98 numbered pages. Quarto [28 cm] Red cloth over boards with a pictorial inset. The boards are a bit warped and the corners of the covers are bumped. Text mostly in Spanish, but also in English and French. A celebration of contemporary Mexican art.
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Utah State Agricultural College described in pictures... Semi-Centennial 1888-1938
Logan, UT: Department of Public Relations / Utah State Agricultural College, 1938. Semi-Centennial edition. Paperback. Quarto [30 cm] Stapled black wraps with a gilt stamped title on the front wrap. Good condition. The covers slightly rubbed, creased and soiled. There is a small loss from the bottom edge of the covers and each page, perhaps due to insect nibbling. The bottom edge of the title page has a couple of small light moisture stains. The outer corners of the... Read More
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List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to the Mormons
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2002. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 239pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark green cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the spine. Near fine condition. Compiled by the Staff of The New York Public Library. Facsimile edition of Bulletin of the New York Public Library Volume XIII, Number 3, March, 1909.
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