Ken Sanders Rare Books

London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 147pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in original mottled red cloth. Recased. Major restoration to jacket; label removed from front board; ink stamps washed from free endpaper, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. In custom red cloth clamshell case. Good / good. Item #56646 A first edition of Ayn Rand's dystopian fiction novella, one of her earliest works.

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Salt Lake City, UT: 1871. Map. Color pocket map [22.4 x 38 inches] which folds into brown cloth boards, titled in gilt on the front board, and with decorative embossing on both boards. With sunning to the spine, and a bit around the edges. There is a small stain on the rear board, measuring roughly 1" in diameter. Splits along the folds have been professionally and skillfully backed with Japanese tissue. The title on the cover reads, "New mining Map of Utah, Showing 28 prominent Mining Districts And Location of the best known Mines." Pencil name of H. Sill, Ogden, 1876, on the back of the map. In a custom slipcase. Very good. Item #57574 A rare map of the mining regions surrounding the Great Salt Lake bordered with bold advertisements. Printed at the head of the map: "Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution." Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI), founded by Brigham Young on October 9, 1868, was the first department store in the United States. This scarce map of northern Utah is dominated by a bulging Great Salt Lake, with Utah Lake and adjacent areas. In addition, the various mining districts (28 depicted) are bordered in red and named. Furthermore, the...

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New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition, inscribed presentation copy. Hardcover. SIGNED. 262pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Professionally recased and rebacked, with the majority of the original spine overlaid. Covers professionally cleaned and polished. Corners of covers skillfully restored. Hinges discreetly reinforced. In a custom made clamshell. Very good. Item #60859 A nice presentation copy from Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. This copy is inscribed to silent film actor and film director James Cruze. Cruze (1884-1942), a giant in the day of silent films, was born in Ogden, Utah, to a Mormon family. He is responsible for directing or producing close to 100 films, including his masterpiece The Covered Wagon. Unfortunately, Cruze did not adapt well to the advent of sound in the film industry, and he died with just a handful of dollars in his pocket. In Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression, the author Jani Scandura quotes Wallace Thurman as writing the following to playwright and producer William Jourdan Rapp in June 1929: "'Met James Cruze, who is quite anxious to see a script of Harlem..'" Scandura goes...

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San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., Publishers, 1884. First edition. 322pp. Quarto [35 cm] Rebacked, with the original backstrip overlaid. Original brown cloth over boards stamped in gilt and blind. Marbled text block edges. Spine heavily rubbed. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Map plus 63 illustrated plates, one which is in color, and two of which are double-page. It is important to note that our copy has the original map [18 1/2" x 13 1/2"], in fine condition, laid in (Rand, McNally & Co., Publishers, 1884). Howes A310. Very good. Item #55062 This work has been divided into twenty-eight divisions, including Acquisition of Spanish Territory, Early expeditions through Arizona, First discovery of gold in Arizona, Civil War in Arizona, Forests and lumber business, Zoology of the Territory, Descriptions of each county and village, Botanical features of the Territory, Native Indian Tribes described, and Newspapers of the Territory.

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Liverpool: Thomas Ward; P. P. Pratt; Orson Hyde; Orson Pratt; F. D. Richards; Samuel W. Richards; Asa Calkin; Amasa Lyman; George Q. Cannon; Daniel H. Wells; A. Carrington; Horace S. Eldredge; Joseph F. Smith; John Henry Smith; George Teasdale; William Budge; Daniel H. Wells; Anthon H. Lund; Brigham Young; Rulon S. Wells, 1840-1898. First Edition. Octavo [22 cm] Bound in various different bindings, most contemporary, some cloth, some leather. The spines and hinges have had periodic restoration work. The extremities are rubbed to varying degrees. The backstrips have occasional losses and chips. There are cracks to the hinges, joints, and text blocks here and there. The brief markings to the pages are hardly worth mentioning, often only filling in errors in printed pagination (occasionally the pages are misnumbered or bound in out of order). The front board and preliminary pages of the combined volume, containing 1, 3, 4, and 5 are detached, but present. Pp. 269-272 of volume 16, number 17 have been cut out. There are tears to the beginning pages of volume 18. Volume 23 is ex-library (just a stamp on the Preface page). Volumes 1, 4, 11, 26, and 27 are missing the title and/or index and...

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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1872-1881. Hardcover. Hayden's monumental survey of the American West, consisting of twelve annual reports, and including the map volume which was issued with the 12th annual report. Of great importance, is the fact that this is the most complete map volume that we have ever seen, with 4 additional maps. The set is sold together with Hayden's large folio atlas "Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado." In this set, the first book is the 1873 reprint which contains the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd annual reports. It is important to note that the 4th Annual Report has the cachet of bearing the bookplate "With the compliments of F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist." Flake 9204. Wheat, pp. 344-349. The volumes are good to about very good. Seven of the spines have been restored with varying amounts of the original backstrips overlaid. Five of the books have had tissue repairs or reinforcement to the hinges. Some of the spine titles are faded. The opening pages have occasional ink stamps. There are cracks in the text blocks here and there (several volumes more prominently: Twelve, Part I and Part II, due to their thickness), but most volumes remain...

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