Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers (4 volumes)
by Youngberg, Florence C.
National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 2844pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Near fine, in very good dust jackets, with light surface wear. A collection of life histories and genealogies of 1500 men and their wives and children.
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Family Record: Four Pages of Genealogy Relating to Joseph Angell Young
by [Genealogy] [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] [Descendants of Brigham Young]
Ephemera. Four pages of genealogy on two loose leaves [6 1/2 x 10 1/4"] which appear to have come from a family Bible. The pages are divided into columns with the following headings: Births; Deaths; Marriages. One page lists the births of Joseph A. Young's parents (Brigham Young and Mary Ann Angell). On the reverse, the marriages of Joseph A. Young and his family members are listed. The second page lists the children of Joseph A. Young and Mary... Read More
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Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty: Navajos, Hozhq, and Track Work
by Youngdahl, Jay
Logan: Utah State University Press, 2011. Hardcover. NEW. 185pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with metallic red ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. With a dust jacket. "Youngdahl's book explores fascinating and virtually unexcavated historical and cultural terrain. Curious about religiosity and cultural practices, Youngdahl has woven an unusual narrative which takes us deep into both the past and the present of the Navajo." - William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and... Read More
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Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847 (inscribed by the author to Anton H. Lund)
by Young, John Ray
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, 1920. First edition, association copy. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. 341pp. Octavo [20 cm] Dark blue cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Illustrated with a frontis portrait of the author. The boards are subtly stained, and the pages are darkened. Flake/Draper 10081. Howes Y29. John Ray Young (1837-) was a nephew of Brigham Young. He was born in Kirtland, Ohio, to parents who were early followers of Joseph... Read More
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Brigham Young [Photograph]
by Young, Junius
Wasatch Block, Salt Lake City, Utah: Junius Young Photographer. Very good. A handsome photograph [10.5 cm x 16.5 cm] of Brigham Young seated, and looking quite relaxed. Tan mount. Junius Young backstamp. Top corners of mount clipped. Tape stain to the reverse. Brigham Young looking quite debonnaire.
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The American Indian and Pioneer Life. Extension Division, University of Utah, Western History 111
by Young, Levi Edgar
1931. Original course paper. Slim quarto [30 cm] Xeroxed typed pages housed in a plain tan folder, printed in black. Very good. The wraps are soiled, and mildly creased, and there are several darkened patches on the first page. With sporadic notations on the pages. A paper by Levi Edgar Young prepared for a Western History 111 course, Extension Division, University of Utah. The author covers such topics as Spanish Aims in America, Irrigation, The Indians That the Spaniards... Read More
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Mountain Paths
by [Young, Levi Edgar]; Maurice Maeterlinck; Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Translator)
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company Publishers, 1919. Leather Bound. Very Good -. 309pp. Duodecimo [18.5cm]. Flexible boards; bound in dark green leather. Gilt lettering and ornamentation on spine and front board. Scuffing to extremities. Leather is beginning to lift from the head of the rear board. Ex libris Levi Edgar Young, bearing his signature on the front free endpaper. Levi Edgar Young was an LDS General Authority who is perhaps best known for his association with the... Read More
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![Adventures of Tim Tyler. Adapted from the famous newspaper strip by Lyman Young [Little Big Book]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/189/018/1612018189.0.l.jpg)
Adventures of Tim Tyler. Adapted from the famous newspaper strip by Lyman Young [Little Big Book]
by Young, Lyman
Akron, OH; New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1934. First Saalfield Publishing Company edition. Hardcover. [9 1/2 cm tall by 20 cm wide] Pictorial paper over boards. The boards are mildly soiled, the backstrip has almost completely come away from the spine, and the text block is cracked about a third of the way in. Little Big Book Number 1053.
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All of This Was Once Under Water: Poems
by Young, Natalie Padilla; Maximiliane Spieß (Illustrator)
Millen, GA: Quarter Press, 2023. Second printing. Paperback. New. 85pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. The first published collection of poetry from Natalie Padilla Young, co-founder of the "Sugar House Review.
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Greendale
by Young, Neil
London: Sanctuary Publishing Limited, 2004. First paperback printing. Paperback. James Mazzeo. SIGNED. Small square quarto [23.5 cm] Brown and black pictorial case bound wraps. Near fine, with only minor edge wear to the wraps. With the blurb that was on the publisher's shrink wrap, cut-out, and laid into the book. Illustrated by James Mazzeo. Signed by Mazzeo on the recto of the copyright page. The illustrator writes, "Enjoy! Mazzeo! 2005!" The music legends "audio novel" following the lives of... Read More
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Greendale
by Young, Neil
London: Sanctuary Publishing Limited, 2004. First paperback printing. Paperback. James Mazzeo. SIGNED. Small square quarto [23.5 cm] Brown and black pictorial case bound wraps. Near fine, with only minor edge wear to the wraps. With the blurb that was on the publisher's shrink wrap, cut-out, and laid into the book. Illustrated by James Mazzeo. Signed by Mazzeo on the recto of the copyright page. The illustrator writes, "Enjoy! Mazzeo! 2005!" The music legends "audio novel" following the lives of... Read More
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The West of Philip St. George Cooke, 1809-1895
by Young, Otis F.
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 393pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Full red cloth with gilt bands at head and foot of backstrip. Title in gilt on backstrip. The top edge has the publisher's red stain; fore edges deckled. Includes an index, bibliography and illustrations. Fold-out map present near rear of volume. The boards are a bit bowed, and a handful of the pages have underlining and markings. Volume five in the Western... Read More
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The West of Philip St. George Cooke, 1809-1895
by Young, Otis F.
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 393pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Full red cloth with gilt bands at head and foot of backstrip. Title in gilt on backstrip. Near fine. Subtle rubbing to corners. Includes an index, bibliography and illustrations. Volume five in the 'Western Frontiersman Series'. Fold-out map present near rear of volume.
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The Small Backs of Children
by Yuknavitch, Lidia
New York: HarperCollins, 2015. Later printing. Hardcover. New/new. 224 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; black and white paper covered boards with title stamped in gold on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. "All my youth I gloried in the wild, exulting, rollercoaster prose style and questing narratives of writers like Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac but cringed at the misogyny; couldn't we have the former without the latter? It turns out we can, because: Lidia Yuknavitch." -Rebecca Solnit.... Read More
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Oriental Lacquer Art
by Yu-kuan, Lee
New York: John Weatherhill Inc, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 394 pp. Quarto. [26.5 cm]. Orange cloth over boards with original dustjacket showing some very minimal signs of wear. Black and white color photographs and descriptions of oriental lacquer art.
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![Earth First! Emblem/Logo [crossed club and monkey wrench]. Signed, limited edition print](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/403/636/1741636403.0.l.jpg)
Earth First! Emblem/Logo [crossed club and monkey wrench]. Signed, limited edition print
by Zaelit, John. [Earth First!]
[Salt Lake City, Utah]: John Zaelit, 1981. Signed, Limited Edition (#4/24). Print. Very Good. Print [35cm x 24cm / 13.75" x 9.5"]. Black image printed on white stock. Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil at the bottom right. One in an edition limited to only twenty-four copies, this is copy number four. Small ink smudge at the very top right corner near the edge. A few minor bumps or soft creases around the edges. The print... Read More
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Zafon, Carlos Ruiz; Lucia Graves (Translator)
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. SIGNED. 486pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/4 maroon with dark green paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the author's initials stamped in gilt on the front cover. Marbled endsheets. The head of the spine is just a bit bruised, and the spine is just a hair rolled back. Signed by Zafon on the title page. A signed first American edition... Read More
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The Angel's Game
by Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
New York: Doubleday, 2009. Advance reading copy. Paperback. Near Fine. SIGNED. 469pp. Octavo [23.5cm] Pictorial wraps. Small bend in the top corner of the back cover. The first few pages are subtly creased. Signed and dated by the Author, inscribed "For Bruce." "In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in... Read More
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Zafon, Carlos Ruiz; Lucia Graves (Translator)
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. SIGNED. 486pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/4 maroon with dark green paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the author's initials stamped in gilt on the front cover. Marbled endsheets. The spine ends are just a little bit bruised. In the dust jacket, with trivial edge wear. Signed by Zafon on the title page. A signed first American edition of... Read More
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Shadow of the Wind
by Zafón, Carlos Ruiz and Lucia Graves (Translator)
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Near Fine. 486 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. 1/4 maroon paper over dark green boards. With gilt stamped author's initials on front board and gilt title stamped on spine. Marbled endpapers. Spine a bit rolled and spine ends lightly bumped. Touch of soiling to textblock edges. Zafón's frame narrative of an antiquarian bookseller's encounter with a rare, one-of-a-kind book from a secret library labyrinth sets the protagonist... Read More
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Aural
by Zambaras, Vassilis
Blue Bell, PA: Singing Horse Press, 1984. Paperback. Twenty-fourmo [14.5 cm] Sewn light gray wraps with a red printed title on the front wrap. Very good. The wraps are very subtly faded. Cover by Binney and Ronaldson.
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The Flood From Heaven: Deciphering the Atlantis Legend
by Zangger, Eberhard
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 256 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. 1/4 maroon cloth over tan boards. Gilt title stamped on spine. Original dust jacket exhibiting signs of shelf wear. Esteemed academic Eberhard Zangger has made a name for himself through promoting the idea that lost underwater civilizations have a scientific and historical basis.
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The Courts of Chaos
by Zelazny, Roger
Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1978. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED. 183pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Beige boards, with title stamped in light brown ink on spine. Spine ends gently bumped. Flaps and rear panel of dust jacket a bit toned. Signed by Roger Zelazny in black ink on the title page. The fifth and last title in the first cycle of the Chronicles of Amber series.
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Z Asie Do Evropy: Vypravovani O Navratu Legionaru [From Asia Back to Europe]
by Zemek, Oldrich [Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova] [Travel]
Brno: Vydalo Druzstvo Moravsky Legionar, 1926. Paperback. Very good. 155pp. Sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Pictorial wraps with unstapled gatherings which was common for Czech paperbacks of the time. With 21 photographic illustrations and a map of Eurasia. With an expressionist cover illustrated by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova. Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova (1894-1980) was the first female wordless novelist and the only woman to work in this medium during its heyday. She was born in the Moravian region of what is now... Read More
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Touch: A Novel
by Zentner, Alexi
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. SIGNED. 264pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with light blue paper over boards. Alexi Zentner's first novel dealing with deeply human love in a world of sinister magic. Signed on the title page by the author.
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