Southwesterners Write: The American Southwest in Stories and Articles by Thirty-Two Contributors
by Edited by T.M. Pearce and A.P. Thomason
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1946. First Edition. 365pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title in black on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Gentle age toning to spine of jacket. Anthology of stories about Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, with contributions by Frank J. Dobie, D.H. Lawrence, Oliver LaFarge, Stanley Vestal, Paul Horgan, and others.
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Madam McGinty 17. Clear Creek Canon C.C.R.R.
by Thompson, T.A.
Denver: Barkalow Bros, 1892. Cabinet card [20.5 cm x 13 cm] Tan blank mount with 'Barkalow Bros. - Denver Colo.' stamped in ink by hand on the reverse. Subtle rubbing and bumping to corners of the mount. Strong contrasts. Image of the 'Madam McGinty' rock formation in Clear Creek Canyon.
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Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map and Guide
by Thorpe, Peter [Tony Hillerman]
Mancos, CO: Time Traveler Maps, 1998. First Edition. Pictorial Map [61 cm x 91 cm] / [24" x 36"] printed in full-color. Folds as issued. This illustrated map and guide that follows Leaphorn & Chee in their first thirteen mysteries set in the heart of Indian Country in the American Southwest. Each plot location is numbered with a book icon. Peter Thorpe, the designer of the jackets of the popular book series, illustrates this excellent map. Tony Hillerman... Read More
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Road Map of Idaho, Showing State Roads and Connecting Roads / Bureau of Highway Map of the State of Idaho: Showing State Highways and Connecting Roads, Airports and Landing Fields
by Thurber, Rex G.
Boise, ID: Department of Public Works, 1931. Single sheet [61 cm x 41 cm] / [24" x 16"] that folds to pamphlet size [20.5 cm x 11 cm] Better than very good. This map locates the major roads and highways, towns, airports and landing fields. County boundaries are shown. The upper right prints a list of 'Points of Interest and Historical Interest to be Found Near Idaho Highways. This places on this 54 item list are located on the... Read More
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roma 1996
by Toccaceli, Enzo Eric
Florence: City Lights Italia, 1996. Postcard [15 cm x 10 cm] Fine. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the verso. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roma 1996
by Toccaceli, Enzo Eric
Florence: City Lights Italia, 1996. Postcard [15 cm x 10 cm] Fine. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the verso. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.
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Field-Days in California
by Torrey, Bradford
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First Edition. 234pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Collection of essays about the author's time birding in California. Bradford Torrey (1843-1912) was an ornithologist who wrote 13 books of nature writing, these books are mainly collections of essays he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly. Torrey was among the most popular of the Houghton and Mifflin Company's travel... Read More
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The Sacrament of Doubt
by Toscano, Paul James
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007. First Edition. 160pp. Duodecimo [21 cm] Gray cloth with the title in black on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Paul James Toscano was a member of the 'September Six' and a Salt Lake City based attorney, who in this book of essays embraces his doubts and examines his faith in the aftermath of his own excommunication. Toscano also celebrates LDS founder Joseph Smith's awe-inspired view of the universe. Paul Toscano was excommunicated from the LDS... Read More
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Utah, the Friendly State, Bids You Welcome: From Border to Border
by [Utah] [Western Touring]
Salt Lake City: Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development, 1950. Single sheet [44 cm x 40 cm] / [17" x 15 3/4"] printed on both sides and folding to pamphlet size [22 cm x 10 cm] / [8 1/2" x 4"] folds as issued. Near fine. Item for the prospective visitor to Utah. One side prints a pictorial map [38 cm x 30 cm] / [15" x 12"] with 29 locations marked that are described at the right... Read More
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Cedar City, Utah - Williams and Flagstaff, Ariz. Via Grand Canyon
by [Western Touring]
[Chicago]: Automobile Association of America, 1935. Single sheet [23 cm x 12 cm] Printed on both sides. Very good. One side contains a route map and detailed directions from Cedar City to Flagstaff and around the Grand Canyon (via Navajo Bridge). Reverse contains an advertisement for Auto-Lite Sparkplugs "This is a region of exceptional interest and the roads are moderately fast. Southeast of Zion National Park, and Bryce Canyon National Park is reached by Utah 12 which branches... Read More
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Iron County, Utah
by [Western Touring]
[Cedar City, UT]: Chamber of Commerce, 1920. 26pp. Octavo [23 cm] stapled color wrappers. About very good. Gentle overall wear. Profusely illustrated work on southern Utah's Iron County that offers a brief history of the area with several views of area sites and buildings. The Utah Parks Company is featured with a nice shot of the El Escalante. Double-page map at the center.
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33 Real Photo Postcards of Yosemite National Park
by [Western Touring]
Yosemite National Park, 1933. 33 RPPC [8.5 cm x 14 cm] all are very good or better with 18 having neat and dated manuscript notes describing the views. Most views have strong contrasts, the cards are in nice condition with no folds or tears. Collection of views documenting someone's trip to Yosemite in 1930 (September 9-11). Included are views of interiors and exteriors of the Awahnee Hotel and the Glacier Point Hotel as well as views of the park.... Read More
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Salt Lake City - Zion Forks - Mt. Carmel, Utah
by [Western Touring]
[Chicago]: Automobile Association of America, 1935. Single yellow sheet [23 cm x 12 cm] Printed on both sides. Very good. One side contains a route map and detailed directions from Salt Lake City to Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park on a loop U.S. 89 and U.S. 91. Reverse contains an advertisement for Auto-Lite Service "Road conditions are comparable and motorists interested in making time will probably prefer U.S. 91, which is also very scenic, but does not... Read More
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Seeing Salt Lake City
by Gray Line Motor Tours
[Salt Lake City, UT]: Gray Line Motor Tours, 1940. Single sheet [23 cm x 30 cm] that folds to pamphlet [23 cm x 10 cm]. Printed in yellow, blue and black ink. Very good. Folds as issued. Suggestions for the prospective tourist to Salt Lake City with brief descriptions of six tours offered by The Gray Line exploring the city and surrounding attractions (Bingham Canyon, Great Salt Lake, and the Cottonwood Canyons. Small bird's-eye view map [10 cm x... Read More
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The Charles
by Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. First Edition. 356pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. About very good/Very good. Spine of price clipped jacket sunned with rubbed extremities and nicked corners. Copy of the fourteenth title in the Rivers of America series. Illustrated by Ernest J. Donnelly. The Charles River is an 80-mile-long river in eastern Massachusetts that flows through 23 cities and towns before emptying into Boston Harbor. It is a central... Read More
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A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books, A Plea for Bibliomania
by Tredwell, Daniel M.
Flatbush, Long Island [NY]: [The De Vinne Press], 1892. 1/250. 501pp. Quarto [28 cm] 3/4 blue pebbled calf over marbled boards. Backstrip shows decorative gilt stamped panels between raised bands. Marbled pastedowns and endsheets. T.E.G. Better than very good with minor rubbing to extremities of boards and joints. 250 numbered copies were printed on handmade paper, this is copy number 250. Nice copy of this privately printed work on privately illustrated books by the noted Brooklyn based bibliophile, Daniel... Read More
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Banquet for Utah High School Coaches
by Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram
Salt Lake City, 1936. Bifolium [18.5 cm x 25.5 cm] on heavy card stock and printed in blue and brown inks. Vertical fold as issued. Near fine. Program and menu for the Utah High School Coaches banquet that was held at the Hotel Utah on October 31, 1936. "Utah high school coaches will be honored by The Telegram and The Tribune Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at a banquet at the Hotel Utah. The affair is the second annual... Read More
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The Daily New Mexican
by William H. Manderfield and Thomas S. Tucker
Santa Fe, NM: Manderfield & Tucker, 1872. 103 issues. Newspaper. Bifolium [44 cm x 60 cm] Issues are four pages. Stab holes from being previously bound, otherwise nice. Lengthy run of this territorial peridocial that offers a nice day-by-day of the news in and around Santa fe. With items on horsethieves, cattlerustlers, area business, land deals, local tribes, and pueblos. The Daily New Mexican was first issued in Santa Fe in 1863 by Manderfield & Tucker, editors and proprietors.... Read More
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First Penthouse Dwellers of America
by Underhill, Ruth M. [Ernie Bulow]
New York: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1938. First Edition. 155pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue boards with the title in white on the backstrip. Nice map endsheets and pastedowns. Minor chipping to corners of jacket. Sporadic underlining throughout by Ernie Bulow. History of the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona that is exlibris Ernie Bulow. Ernie Bulow (1943-2021) was a sometime bookman whose interests and experiences extended to journalism, photography, Indian trading, writing, silversmithing, and teaching. After taking a degree in... Read More
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Acts, Resolutions and memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, During the Twelfth Annual Session, for the Years 1862-63
by [Utah]
Great Salt Lake City: Elias Smith, Public Printer, 1863. 1/1000. 15pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Bound in blue buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Original light gray printed wrappers bound in. Very good. Territorial legislature printing that covers rules and regulations of the (then new) telegraph and moving the Washington County seat from Washington to St. George (among others items). Lengthy inscription on the title page from David W. Moffat describing his ownership of this book.... Read More
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Acts, resolutions and memorials passed and adopted during the sixteenth annual session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. To which is prefixed the Declaration of independence, the Articles of the confederation, the Ordinance of 1787, the Constitution of the United States, and amendments thereto, the naturalization laws, and the Organic act of Utah, and with which is embodied a number of law forms
by [Utah]
Great Salt Lake City: James A. Thompson, Public Printer, 1867. 247+40+8pp. Octavo [24 cm] 3/4 leather over blue boards. Red leather label on the spine. Boards and bacskstrip worn. Lacks the leather at the foot of the backstrip (4 cm). Lacks title page.
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Indexed Pocket Map and Shipper's Guide of Utah
by [Utah]
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1915. 20pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Brown printed wrappers. Minor wear to covers. Attached to rear inside panel: Color map [65 cm x 47 cm] on a single sheet [71 cm x 53 cm] that folds into brown printed covers [17 cm x 10 cm]. Map has folds as issued. Map is bright and in nice condition. City and town index in the left margin. Nice early twentieth century Utah state map that identifies and... Read More
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Sheet of letterhead and printed envelope
by Hotel Utah
[Salt Lake City]: Hotel Utah, 1970. Sheet of printed letterhead [27 cm x 18.5 cm] printed mailing envelope [10.5 cm x 24 cm] Small ink scribble on the letterhead, otherwise both are fine. The Hotel Utah (1911-1987 ) was The hotel in Salt Lake, that over it's lifetime hosted presidents and dignitaries, adjacent to the Salt Lake Temple Block. The building is now known as the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and is primarily used as office space for the... Read More
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Bingham Utah Real Photo Postcards
by [Mining] [Utah]
1950. 12 real photo postcards [9 cm x 14 cm] All views have strong contrasts all are very good or better. Twelve real photo postcards documenting the mining outpost in the southwestern corner of the Salt Lake Valley, Bingham. Showing buildings, mining equipment, mining processes, the tunnel, automobiles, trucks, and the 'open pit'. Scans of all views available. - Bingham Canyon, Utah. - Bingham Canyon, Utah. - Upper Bingham Canyon 1904 - Tourist Traffic Upper Portal... Read More
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Sun Valley, Idaho: Rates & Accommodations - Winter Season, 1949-50
by [Sun Valley]
Omaha, NE: Union Pacific Railroad, 1949. Single sheet [46 cm x 30.5 cm] printed in full color that folds to pamphlet size [23 cm x 10 cm] Very good. Folds as issued. Illustrated and pictorial promotional piece offering rates and information for lodging and services. Sun Valley is famous the world over and one of America's premier ski areas and one of its first destination resorts. Built in 1936 by the Union Pacific Railroad, Sun Valley is located in... Read More
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