Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing
inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We also
purchase and appraise books.
New arrivals and acquisitions are posted to the KSRB website first on Saturday mornings. The inventory will then be posted to the other sites we use abebooks.com, alibris.com, biblio.com, and amazon.com later in the following week.Our inventory is diverse, and our specialties include Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, B. Traven, Utah and the Mormons, Modern First Editions, Grand Canyon, Colorado River & Colorado Plateau, Western Americana, Native Americans, The Intermountain West, Southwest, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Wilderness & National Parks, Public Lands, the Environment, Explorations & Surveys, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and the Literary West.
The Name of the Thief: A Portrait of John Charles Gilkey - By Ken Sanders
During my four-year tenure as security chair for the ABAA, I have been blessed and cursed with a plethora of book thieves, would-be book thieves, fraudsters, forgers, conmen, grifters, and all manner and kind of other predators within the book trade. My tenure has coincided with the rapid rise of Internet commerce and the swift rise to e-auction dominance of eBay. With this increase in cyber commerce, a Wild West frontier mentality has also come to the fore; the gunslingers and cattle rustlers of the Old West have been supplanted by the forgers and credit card thieves of the New West. Nineteenth-century hookers have become twenty-first-century hackers, and the poker players of old have been transformed into electronic auctioneers. This is a tale of a book thief, one of many I have acquired during several years spent in the underbelly of the rare book world. This parable, a rare tale of an unusual thief, tells of one of the few who were apprehended. Some days I feel like a modern-day Jonah, other days more like Pinocchio, swallowed whole by an unseen beast.
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![356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. New book with no flaws.](/ksanders/images/items/120x500/14193.jpg "356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. New book with no flaws.")
The Monkey Wrench Gang.
![160pp. Vegisemo-Quarto (24mo) [12 cm] Full leather. Fine. Housed in a custom clamshell that also includes a separately bound foreword by Peter Crawley. This edition is limited to 29 lettered copies. This edition is hand-sewn and bound using techniques consistent with historical styles. The deluxe edition also includes two letterpress printed title page variants for framing or display, as well as space for a leaf.](/ksanders/images/items/120x500/16946.jpg "160pp. Vegisemo-Quarto (24mo) [12 cm] Full leather. Fine. Housed in a custom clamshell that also includes a separately bound foreword by Peter Crawley. This edition is limited to 29 lettered copies. This edition is hand-sewn and bound using techniques consistent with historical styles. The deluxe edition also includes two letterpress printed title page variants for framing or display, as well as space for a leaf.")
A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ, Organized According to Law, on the 6th of April, 1830.
