![Old Cap. Collier in Salt Lake City: or, "Piping the Mormon Conspirators. Old Cap. Collier Library. No. 426. March 5, 1892 [Dime Novel]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/035/1517035164.0.l.jpg)
Old Cap. Collier in Salt Lake City: or, "Piping the Mormon Conspirators. Old Cap. Collier Library. No. 426. March 5, 1892 [Dime Novel]
by By the Author of "Old Cap Collier" [pseudonym for multiple house writers]
New York: Munro's Publishing House. First printing. Good. 48pp. Text double column. Large wood engraving to front cover [p. 1, "Old Cap. Collier, Gripstick in Hand, Watched the Mormon Elder and His Five Fair Victims"]. 10 5/8 x 7 1/4". Printed wrappers, stapled. Age-toning, with some chipping to the extremities, and covers beginning to detach. Title page lacking piece to fore-edge [text not affected]. Two stamps, one to top margin of p. 1 & bookseller stamp to p.... Read More
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The Thaw: And Other Stories
by Wronoski, James
Ardmore, PA: Merwood Books, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. SIGNED. Octavo [22.5cm]. 1/4 green cloth over light gray boards. Title stamped in white on spine. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. "Connected by the recurring theme of man melting out of his cold outer shell and into the individual within, the characters in these stories will haunt the read long after the last page is turned.
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An Imperfect Book; What the Book Of Mormon Tells Us About Itself
by Wunderli, Earl M.
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2013. First edition. Paperback. New. 389 pp. [22 cm]; white and blue illustrated wraps. "Wunderli provides a reader-friendly discussion of evidence surrounding the issue of whether or not the Book of Mormon is an ancient work.
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Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art
by Wyckoff, Lydia L.
Tulsa: Philbrook Museum of Art, 1996. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. 304pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gray ink stamped title on the spine. Very good, with a mildly rolled spine. In a near fine dust jacket. A book showing 484 paintings from the museum's collection, paintings reflecting many important influences on Indian art, and representing a wide range of imagery.
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A Day With a Tramp and Other Days
by Wyckoff, Walter A.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 191pp. Octavo [19cm]. Bound in dark gray cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Spine a bit rolled. Spine ends lightly scuffed. Boards mildly soiled. In 1891, recent Princeton graduate and budding social scientist Walter A. Wyckoff began an 18-month "experiment in reality," living and working (or hoping to work) among the United States' traveling unskilled worker population. Chapters include "With Iowa Farmers,"... Read More
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Effects of Alterations to Low Gradient Reaches of Utah Streams
by Wydoski, Richard S.; William T. Helm and James M. Brown
Kearneysville, WV: Eastern Energy and Land Use Team, National Water Resources Group, Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1980. Paperback. 160pp. Thin quarto [26 cm] Tan and black illustrated wraps. Near fine. There is a previous owner's name on the top edge of the front wrap. Biological Services Program FWS/OBS-80/14, April 1980. The Biological Services Program was established within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to supply scientific information and methodologies on... Read More
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Four Seasons: 12 Reproductions
by Wyeth, Andrew; Lloyd Goodrich (Preface)
New York: Art in America, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good +. Unpaginated. Folio [43cm]. Twelve loose plates accompanied by 4pp text - also loose. In a portfolio quarterbound in black cloth with beige cloth over boards. Paper title label on the front board. Plates are held in place with three plastic "clips" at head, fore edge and foot. The fore edge clip is detached, and the underlying board is a bit damaged. In original box, which is in Good... Read More
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Four Seasons: 12 Reproductions
by Wyeth, Andrew; Lloyd Goodrich (Preface)
New York: Art in America, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Unpaginated. Folio [43cm]. Twelve loose plates accompanied by 4pp text - also loose. In a portfolio quarterbound in black cloth with beige cloth over boards. Paper title label on the front board. Plates are held in place with a plastic "clip" at head. Adhesive stain underneath. Lacking clip at fore edge and clip at foot. Mild soiling to boards. Corners are a bit scuffed. Plates and text pages are... Read More
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Mormon Portraits or Truth about the Mormon Leaders from 1830-1886. Story of Danite's Wife; Mountain Meadows Massacre re-examined; A Thousand Fresh Facts and Documents Gathered Personally in Utah From Living Witnesses; Volume First: Joseph Smith The Prophet His Family and His Friends: A Study Based on Facts and Documents
by Wyl, Dr. W. [Wymetal, Wilhelm Ritter von]
Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co, 1886. First edition. Paperback. Good. 320pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] Covers restored (with only a large portion of the original front wrap applied). New flyleaves. Pages toned. No further volumes were published in this proposed series. The author was sent to Utah by a German newspaper to investigate Mormonism. Flake: 10034.
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The Mount Moriah Studies
by Wyndham, Harald
Pocatello, Idaho: Blue Scarab Press, 1989. First printing. Paperback. New. 120 pp. Paperback. A long poem in fifty-two sections that takes its structure from the DNA molecule and twists fragments of twelve themes into a helix. The first panel of Wyndham's "Triptych." Set in the Mount Moriah cemetery.
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Prodigal Psalms
by Wyndham, Harald
Pocatello, Idaho: Blue Scarab Press, 1991. First printing. Paperback. New. 150 pp. Paperback. The final panel in Wyndham's "Triptych." A collection of 150 poems that are prayers and psalms for exiles.
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The Day of the Triffids
by Wyndham, John
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989. Leather bound. Very good. 222pp. Octavo. [22cm] Gray leather over boards with gold gilt decorations on the covers and spine. Gilt title on the spine. Pages have gilt edges and there is a yellow satin pagemarker attached to the spine. Minor soiling on inside of both covers along the end pages as well as some light toning to the hinges of the end pages. Some foxing on the half title and the edges... Read More
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I Am Part of Every Poem (Poems for Everyone Over Seven)
by Wyness, Jean M.
Boston: Branden Press Publishers, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED. 74pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth over boards. There is a previous owner's ink stamp on the front free endpaper and there is an address in pen along the bottom edge of the front free endpaper. In the illustrated dust jacket with light surface and edge wear. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Warmly inscribed by the New Zealand born poet Jean M. Wyness on the front... Read More
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority, & the Mess of Life
by Wypijewski, JoAnn
London: Verso, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 286pp. [21.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with silver text stamped on spine. Black dust jacket with white text. From the publisher: "From the criminalization of HIV to the frenzy over “pedophile priests,” from unexamined assumptions about the murder of Matthew Shepard to the accusations made against Woody Allen, from Brett Kavanaugh to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes some of the most famous stories of recent decades and turns them... Read More
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![Xenophontis, Philosophi et Imperatoris Clarissimi, Quae Exstant Opera, In Duos Tomos Divisa - 2 volumes in 1 book [Greek and Latin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/900/748/1329748900.0.l.0.jpg)
Xenophontis, Philosophi et Imperatoris Clarissimi, Quae Exstant Opera, In Duos Tomos Divisa - 2 volumes in 1 book [Greek and Latin]
by Xenophon, Johannes Luenclavius; Aemilius Portus
Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: Societatem Graecarum Editionum, 1625. Early edition. Good +. 1213pp. Thick folio [36 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. Red text block edges. Spine label perished at edges. Title page vignette. Double columns. The inner columns are in Greek, the outer columns are in Latin. Decorative headpieces and initials. Appendix and three indices at the rear. Joints and spine ends skillfully restored. Tape was formerly present at the head and foot of spine and... Read More
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The Rupture Tense
by Xie, Jenny
Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2022. First printing. Paperback. New. 110pp. Octavo. [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory—historical, collective,... Read More
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
by Yagisawa, Satoshi
New York: Harper Perennial, 2023. Paperback. New. 147pp. Duodecimo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he’s been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako’s life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant... Read More
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78 RPM
by Yamrus, John
Arlington, VA: Bogg Publications, 2005. First edition. Near fine. Slim octavo [21.5 cm] Saddle-stitched gray and white pictorial wraps. Bogg free-for-postage pamphlet, Second Series, No. 19. This is the poet's fourteenth collection.
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Asian Americans in Utah: A Living History
by Yang, John H.; Introduction by Philip F. Notarianni
Salt Lake City, UT: State of Utah Office of Asian Affairs, Asian American Advisory Council, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 264pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. With many illustrations in full color. Very good, in a very good dust jacket. Prepared under the direction of The State of Utah Office of Asian Affairs, The Asian American Advisory Council. Inscribed by John S. Yang on the front free endsheet. ... Read More
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The Oxygen Man
by Yarbrough, Steve
Denver: MacMurray & Beck, 1999. Hardcover. SIGNED. 280pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with blue paper covered boards and a silver stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The spine is ever so slightly rolled. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The front panel is slightly scratched. Signed by the author on the title page. From the jacket- "A searing first novel that resonates like Larry Brown's Father & Son and E. Annie Proulx's Postcards. ... Read More
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Horizon Is Calling
by Yashima, Taro
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Bilingual edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. 276pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth over boards. With gentle bruising to the spine ends. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with a loss from the paper at the head of the spine, measuring 3 inches deep by 1 inch wide. The jacket also has a small piece of tape backing tears to the foot of the spine. Text in English and Japanese. A Japanese graphic... Read More
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The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
by Yates, Frances A.
London, Boston, and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good +. 217pp. Octavo [22 cm] Dark red paper over boards. Very subtle abraded area on the front board measuring just under 1/2" wide by 2 1/2" deep. Previous owner's name with the date "12/31/79" in pen on the front free endpaper. Notations and underlining in pen on the first 57 pages. In a dust jacket which has been laminated. Jacket still presents well. A book... Read More
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A Good School
by Yates, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 178pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the author's name stamped in gilt on the front cover. Very good. The bottom edges of the covers and text block are heavily foxed. Spine ends gently bumped. The endsheets are subtly darkened. The jacket is slightly creased and yellowed. There is a one inch long closed tear in the top... Read More
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My Heart is that Eternal Rose tattoo
by Yau, John
Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. New. 165pp. Octavo [22.7 cm]. Pink and orange wraps with black text. In this collection of surreal, dreamlike prose vignettes John Yau takes us on startling journey across wastes of "cities fluttering with lost ghosts" and asks the question "what are you doing now that you're here?
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The Photography of Max Yavno
by Yavno, Max; Text by Ben Maddow; Designed by Carl Seltzer
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Square quarto [31 cm] Black cloth over boards with silver lettering on the backstrip and front board. The extremities are lightly rubbed, the head of the spine is bumped, and there is a remainder mark at the foot of the text block. In the pictorial dust jacket, with a two inch closed tear to the top edge of the front panel at the head of the... Read More
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