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The Rio Grande: Moffat Tunnel Route [Time Tables]
by Denver & Rio Grande Western
[Denver], 1943. 44pp. Square octavo [23 cm x 20.5 cm] Stapled wrappers that fold to digest size [23 cm x 10 cm] Near fine. Time tables and descriptions of the D&GRW line with photographs illustrating the text with a large route map at the center [21 cm x 38 cm]. "The Scenic Limited, via world-famed Royal Gorge Favorite with American Travelers for more than half a century. The Exposition Flyer, via the Moffat Tunnel Popular scenic shortcut... Read More
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[Hiking in Big Thompson Canyon]
by [Women in the West]
[Estes Park, CO?], 1900. Large format gelatin silver photograph [17 cm x 12 cm] on a plain gray mount [25 cm x 20 cm] Very good. Image of two women and a boy standing among, and atop, of rocks in a canyon. Manuscript note on the reverse "Rocks back of McLeod Cabin Shenstone - Big Thompson Canon - 'Perfect Tree' Aunt Florence Stewart, Bertha McLeod, Keith McLeod.
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Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861
by Wheat, Carl I. [Dale L. Morgan]
San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1963. First Edition. 6 volume set. 264,281,349,260,222,223-487pp. Folios [37 cm] 1/4 green buckram over gray cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Near fine. Complete with all fold-out maps. Exlibris Dale Morgan. Inscribed by Wheat to Morgan on the front free endsheet of Volume 1: "To Dale L. Morgan, with every good wish Nov. 12, 1957 Carl I. Wheat." Excellent association copy. Volume 1: The Spanish Entrada to the... Read More
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Untitled [Nudes]
by Whipple, Sri
Salt Lake City, 2010. Original pen and ink drawing [36 cm x 24 cm] / [14" x 9.5"] signed in pencil at the lower right. Elegant drawing by the Salt Lake City based artist. Sri Whipple (b.1973) is an American visual artist, born in Los Angeles and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his education from the University of Utah, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000.
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Whose Boy is He
by White, A.H.
Ashtabula, OH: The Standard Publishing Co, 1908. 21pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Very good. Rare printing of White's discourse on setting young men on a course towards God and good citizenship. We locate no copies in OCLC or in any reference known to us. "Mr. White is qualified by his own early experiences, to have perpetual interest in boys, especially those likely to fall under adverse influences. His constant observations give an increasing number of personal... Read More
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Helena
by White, Dan
Blue Highway Promotions, 1986. Pictorial map [48 cm x 60 cm] / [19" x 23.5"] printed in color. About very good. Light wear with a few tape remnants to extremities. Map is bright. Chamber of Commerce type map, with business located and historical locations. A few typed captions of historical content. "In late July, 1864, four gentlemen from Georgia decided to make one last, desperate attempt to find gold in the foothills of the Continental Divide near Prickly... Read More
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Utah
by White, Ruth Taylor
[Boston]: [Little, Brown & Co.], 1935. Pictorial map [29.5 cm x 21 cm] printed in vibrant full color. Near fine. From the book 'Our USA-A Gay Geography' with text by Frank J. Taylor. Charming pictorial map that locates some of the distinctive and scenic places in Utah and the cultures and people who inhabit this excellent place. "This was the country the Mormons settled, the country which, as Brigham Young with some reason hoped, no one else wanted.... Read More
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Island of Hawaii
by White, Ruth Taylor
Honolulu: Hawaii Tourist Bureau, 1931. Pictorial map [41 cm x 32 cm] / [16.25" x 12.5"] Printed in vibrant full color. Near fine. Charming pictorial map that locates some of the distinctive and scenic places of the Big Island. Ruth Taylor White (1896-1985) was an American artist who was a celebrated pictorial map creator from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. She depicted foreign and domestic views in a bright and friendly style that endeared her to the... Read More
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Poetical Writings of Orson F. Whitney. Poems and Poetic Prose
by Whitney, Orson Ferguson [David O. McKay]
Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1889. First Edition. 208pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Full brown pebbled leather with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. A.E.G. Floral endsheets and pastedowns. Better than very good. Faint rubbing to corners with gentle sunning to backstrip. Small nick to front board. Inscribed by David O. McKay to his son, Edward R. McKay on the front free endsheet. Nice association copy. David O. McKay (1873-1970) spent his youth in Huntsville,... Read More
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Register to the Thomas L. Kane and Elizabeth W. Kane Collection
by Whittaker, David J.
Provo, UT: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, 2001. First Edition. Two volume set. 665, 666-1153pp. Quartos [28 cm] Blue cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. Inscribed by the author to fellow historian Will Bagley on the title page of volume 1. Additionally, signed by the author on the title page volume 2. Thomas L. Kane's friendship with Brigham Young is especially important for students of... Read More
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Dry-Farming: A System of Agriculture for Countries Under a Low Rainfall
by Widtsoe, John A.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1913. 445pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Green decorative publisher's binding with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine. Illustrated throughout. Nice copy of this rare agricultural work by the noted academic and apostle. John Andreas Widtsoe (1872-1952) was born in Norway to John A. and Anna C. Gaarden Widtsoe. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1881 when his widowed mother joined. In 1883 the small Widtsoe family moved to Utah... Read More
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Heaven's My Destination
by Wilder, Thornton
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. Later edition. 304pp. Octavo [21 cm] Cream cloth with decorative printing and title on backstrip. Very good. Gentle discoloring to boards. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Dorothy Hoffman with the best wishes of Thornton Wilder - University of Chicago, January 1935." Fourth printed novel by the award-wining and acclaimed novelist and playwright.
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Elements of Astronomy, Illustrated with Plates, for the use of School and Academies, with Questions
by Wilkins, John H.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1832. 152pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 sheep over marbled boards with gilt title and bands on backstrip. About very good. Gentle rubbing to extremities. Rear hinge starting at head. Minor foxing throughout. Name in ink on front pastedown. Complete with all ten plates, including the fold-out frontispiece. This work was first printed in 1822. Mormon Parallels 472.
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'The Window'
by Willis, J.R.
Gallup, NM: The Studios of J.R. Willis, 1925. Silver gelatin photograph [18 cm x 28 cm] / [7" x 11"] Photographer's blind stamp at the lower left. In the original gilded frame with a Willis label on the reverse. View of Tségháhoodzání also known as Window Rock, which is the namesake of the Navajo Nation capital and Arizona town. Joseph Roy Willis (1876-1960) was a photographer and painter who in 1917, on his way to New York City via... Read More
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Desert Solitaire 50
by Williams, Terry Tempest
Salt Lake City / Moab: Ken Sanders Rare Books / Back of Beyond Books, 2018. Broadside [40.5 cm x 25.5 cm] / [16" x 10"] printed in full-color. Near fine. Printed in an edition of 126 copies on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Edward Abbey's 'Desert Solitaire'. Art and design by Claire Taylor and printed by Robert Buchert at Tryst Press. Signed by the author above the colophon. This is copy '99' from the... Read More
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
by Williams, Terry Tempest
New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition. 143pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over tan boards. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the author on the half-title. Terry Tempest Williams (b.1955) is a celebrated author and conservationist, whose work has been widely anthologized. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
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Killing Fur Seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska
by Winter, Lloyd & E. Percy Pond
Juneau, AK: Winter & Pond, 1895. Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [11.5 cm x 19 cm] on a tan Winter & Pond mount [14.5 cm 22 cm] with a Winter & Pond backstamp. Title in the negative. Gentle wear to mount. Image shows uniformed men clubbing seals with poles. Alaskan photographers Lloyd Winter and E. Percy Pond documented the Klondike Gold Rush, mining operations in the Juneau Gold Belt District and traditional Tlingit Indian culture. Winter & Pond operated their... Read More
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For Old and Young. The Midland Primer: A Handbook of Information of the Great State of Colorado and the Territory of Utah
by Wise, Isidor
Leadville, CO: Press of C.C.Davis & Co/, 1892. 35pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Damp staining to covers. Otherwise, very good. Illustrated work for the prospective tourist aboard the Colorado Midland Railway, with a brief description and information on Colorado, that is followed by information on the towns and areas the Midland passes through. (Manitou, Ute Pass, Glenwood, Grand Junction, etc.). The Colorado section is followed by a short section on Utah, with descriptions of Ogden and Salt... Read More
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Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905: Half Century in War and Peace
by Wistar, Isaac Jones
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. 528pp. Quarto [26 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Spine of jacket sunned. Former owner's blind stamp on the endsheets. "When one not inordinately addicted to discoursing of himself begins to contemplate a lapse from such negative virtue...." Isaac J. Wistar, who never confused modesty with self-repression, opens his autobiography in this forbidding, Victorian language. But he soon shifts... Read More
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Monuments to Jedediah Smith
by Wood, Raymund F.
Stockton, CA: The Jedediah Smith, 1984. First Edition. 48pp. Quarto [28 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Short illustrated work that contains a brief biographical sketch of the legendary mountain man and pathfinder which is followed by a list of all the monuments of Smith. Each listing includes the location, accessibility, type of construction, the wording on the monument, and illustration of the monument.
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Valley House
by [Trade Card] [Wilford Woodruff]
[Salt Lake City], 1890. Trade card [8 cm x 11.5 cm] printed on both sides. Near fine. Trade card for Salt Lake City's Valley House, which was located at the corner of South Temple and West Temple (the present-day site of Abravanel Hall). The building was originally constructed by Wilford Woodruff upon his arrival to the valley in 1847. It was converted into the Valley House Hotel in the 1870s before being demolished in 1915 to erect the Bamberger... Read More
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Wilford Woodruff's Journal, Typescript: Volume 9, 1 January 1889 to 31 Setember 1898
by Woodruff, Wilford. Edited by Scott G. Kenney
Midvale: Signature Books, 1985. First Edition, 135/400. 625pp.Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust colored cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Gray cloth wrap-around at the foot. Near fine. The journals of Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, rank among the most significant documents of Mormonism and the Amereican West. As Brigham Young University Archivist David J. Whittaker has noted, their seven thousand manuscript pages "are for Mormon history... Read More
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View of the American Indians: Their General Character, Customs, Language, Public Festivals, Religious Rites, and Traditions: Shewing Them to be the Descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The Language of Prophecy concerning them, and the course by which they travelled from Media into America
by Worsley, Israel
London: Printed by W.W. Arliss for the Author, and sold by R. Hunter, 1828. 185pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards with a gilt stamped red label and gilt bands to the backstrip. Near fine. This work relies heavily on Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews but adds additional information, including Manasseh ben Israel's account of Antonio de Montezinos's discovery of the ten tribes in Peru. Worsley believes that the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim arrived... Read More
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Inventory of the Church Archives of Utah, Volume 2: Baptist Church
by [WPA] Works Progress Administration [Morgan, Dale L.]
Salt Lake City: The Utah Historical Records Survey, 1940. First Edition. 71pp. Quarto [27 cm] 1/4 black cloth over brown and tan printed wrappers. Very good. Ex-libris Dale L. Morgan with his signature at the upper right corner of the cover. This work follows 'History and Bibliography of Religion in Utah, Volume 1.' "We deeply appreciate the courtesy of the project workers in all of their relations with us and their painstaking approach to their task. The Baptists of... Read More
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Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 26. Wasatch County (Heber City)
by [WPA] Works Progress Administration [Morgan, Dale L.]
Ogden: The Historical Records Survey, 1938. First Edition. 95pp. Quarto [27 cm] Post binding with 1/4 black cloth cover over tan printed wrappers. Very good. WPA work for this northern Utah county. Ex-libris Dale L. Morgan with his signature at the upper right corner of the cover. Dale L. Morgan (1914 - 1971), was an American historian, accomplished researcher, biographer, editor, and critic. He specialized in material on Utah history, Mormon history, the American fur trade, and overland trails.... Read More
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