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NEW LOCATION: 209 E 500 S inside the Leonardo Museum
HOURS: Tuesday through Sunday 10 AM - 6 PM
There are 3 levels at this location -- the main floor, the rare room, and the underground.
Parking is available inside the City Library parking garage on 500 S. The first two hours are free.
Metered street parking is also available along 200 E and 500 S. Street parking is free for two hours on Saturdays and all day on Sundays.
Welcome to Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City's premier antiquarian bookshop since 1997. We offer a selection of rare and collectible books, a smattering of new books, an enormous stock of eclectic and affordable used titles, and an ever-changing selection of art, ephemera, maps, photographs, and postcards. We also offer book purchasing and appraisal services.
Ken Sanders Rare Books specializes in regional interest Utah & the Mormons and the broader Western Americana, with emphases on the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, National Parks, and the literary West. We offer rare and collectible books in many subjects, including Literature, Art, Photography, Children's, Illustrated, and Wordless Novels. We are a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA).
Serious collectors and casual shoppers are equally welcome, and browsing is encouraged. You can search our inventory on this website but a significant portion of our stock is uncatalogued-- please call or drop by if you don’t see what you’re looking for!
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Featured Items
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The Book of Kells
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2014. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Folio [35.5cm]. Bound in ivory leather with raised bands and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Decorative patterns on the spine and covers, stamped in gilt and dove gray ink. All edges gilt. Satin ribbon page marker. Marbled endsheets. In publisher's gray clamshell case; title and decor gilt stamped on front and spine. One corner of the slipcase is gently bumped. Publisher's notes laid in. Near Fine. Item #67328 The Book of Kells is among most famous texts in the world, and a national treasure in Ireland. Famed for its ornate illustrations, the Book of Kells was created in approximately 800AD using sheets of vellum and colorful ink from natural sources. It is unusually well preserved and vibrant, incredibly surviving countless Viking raids (along with the English Reformation). The book was presented to Trinity College in Dublin in 1661, where it is on permanent display. This beautiful, full color facsimile edition is printed on archival paper.
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New York (z naseho okna) [New York (From Our Window)] [Original Art]
Bochorakova-Dittrichova, HelenaOriginal watercolor on paper. 14" x 3/4" x 18" [18" x 21" in mat]. The view from the artist's apartment window. Full of New York flavor, Bochorakova-Dittrichova's depiction of New York bustles with pedestrians, passing cars, and billboards and awnings. Signed "BD" and titled "New York" in the lower corners. A charming and typical, however very unique, New York scene, full of movement and color, which reveals an intimate snippet of the artist's life. Item #58526 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 the Czech Republic and spent most of her life in Brno, the Moravian capital. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in 1923 received a government scholarship to study printmaking in Paris. Bochorakova-Dittrichova's unpublished wordless novel Malirka Na Cestach [The Artist on Her Journey] recounts this period in her life. In Paris, she first encountered the wordless novels of Flemish artist Frans Masereel, the originator of the form, and was inspired to create her own. Over the course of her long career, Bochorakova-Dittrichova published several wordless novels, along...
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Birds and Trees of North America: Quail, Grouse, Turkeys, Guan, Pigeons, Vultures, Hawks
Brasher, RexKent, Connecticut. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Oblong folio [33cm x 46cm]. 3/4 tan suede over masonite boards decorated with a small painting of a bird. Title stamped in gilt on front board; gilt stamped list of featured fowl on suede. Suede dye is beginning to lift and leaves a bit of residue when handled. Some toning to textblock. Edges a bit worn. Protective tissue over illustrations is sporadically toned, ripped and creased. Very Good. Item #67136 With 81 plates hand-colored by Rex Brasher. Scarce. 500 sets were projected, but financial limitation ensured only 100 were completed. After his naturalist father had an unpleasant encounter with John James Audubon--his standing appointment was dismissed because the famed bird artist was apparently too busy painting a dead bird hanging from the ceiling--a young Rex Brasher resolved to be better than Audubon. Brasher lived a colorful life, financing his bird artistry and the requisite travel with income from lithography work, successful horse racing bets, and time spent working on a fishing vessel (the latter also provided an opportunity to sketch aquatic birds). In 1924, a 55-year-old Brasher finally completed 874 watercolors, which featured all known North American birds. He used the American Ornithologists Union...
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The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain; The British Grasses and Sedges; The Ferns of Great Britain and Their...
Pratt, AnneLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Circa 1855. Early editions. Leather bound. 288; 355; 410; 328; 368; 136; 164pp. Octavo [23 cm]; contemporary 3/4 green Moroccan leather, with marbled paper covered boards, raised bands and gilt tooled spines. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities and boards rubbed, spines moderately sunned, underlying boards occasionally exposed at edges and corners. The title page of "The Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies" has been tipped in, and a contemporary notation has been skillfully effaced. All plates and their accompanying tissue-guards are in fine condition, bright and beautiful. The plates in the "The British Grasses and Sedges" and "The Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies" volumes do not have tissue guards. Very Good. Item #67126 Anne Pratt is one of the most famous and successful female botanical artists of the 19th century. She wrote and illustrated more than 20 books on botany. An attractive early set, with one uncolored and 317 very attractive plates color-printed by William Dickes using George Baxter's printing process. Baxter was known for using the best materials, inks he ground himself, and numerous wooden blocks to add colors.
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Aristotelis Stagiritae, Philosophorum omnium facile principis, opera, quai in hunc usque diem extant omnia, Latinitate partim antea, partim nunc primum...
[Greek Philosophy] [Latin] [Treatises] Aristotle; Philipp Melanchton and Juan Luis VivesBasileæ (Basel): Ex Officina Joan. Oporini (Joannes Oporinus), [1548]. Second volume of a work in three volumes. 667pp. Quarto [33 cm] Mid-17th-century vellum binding (likely Spanish, but possibly Italian). Bold manuscript title on the spine. Gauffered edges. With tanned skin sewing supports. Initial letters. Text block hanging on to wraps by a single leather cord. ***Missing title page and prefatory pages to Aristotle's work on auscultation. Text block cracked a couple of times at the rear. Light marginal tidemarks to the preliminary pages. Occasional manuscript notations. Pages exceptionally bright. Latin text. Contents: Aristotelis Stagiritae Physicae Auscultationis (Io. Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber IIII; Liber V; Liber VI; Liber VII; Liber VIII. Aristotelis Stagiritae De Coelo (Io. Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus. Epistola Nuncupatoria ad Leonem. Aristotelis Stagiritae Peripa Teticae Disciplinae Autoris: Liber De Generatione & Interitu Prior (Latinus á Petro Alcyonio factus); Liber De Generatione et Interitu Posterior (Latinus á Petro Alcyonio factus). Petrus Alcyonius Antonio Prato S. P. D. Aristotelis Stagiritae Meteoron (Petro Alcyonio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Alter; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus. Aristotelis Stagiritae De Anima (Ioan Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius. Petri...
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The Pilgrim's Progress (The Hughes-Stanton / Hermes Pilgrim's Progress) - 2 volume set
Bunyan, John; Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes (Illustrators)London: Cresset Press, 1928. Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. Limited edition. Hardcover. (viii), 175; (viii), 163pp. Folio [37 cm] Full black parchment vellum with gold spine lettering, and raised bands. Top edges gilt. Light wear to covers; corners lightly worn; spines spotted; spines a bit chipped at the foot. No slipcase. Very good. Item #59105 Printed in an edition limited to 195 numbered copies printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. This copy is numbered 66. The text for volume I from the 11th edition, published 1688, which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition, published 1687. Beautiful wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. The text for Vol. I from the 11th edition, published 1688, which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition, published 1687.
Rare Books San Francisco 2025: A List of 75 New Arrivals
Having just returned home from Rare Books San Francisco, we are pleased to present 75 new arrivals exhibited there. Please take a look!
Ken Sanders Rare Books at New York Bibliography Week Booksellers’ Showcase 2025
We are pleased to offer here a list of forty of the items that we will be exhibiting as part of the New York Bibliography Week Booksellers’ Showcase 2025 at the L’Alliance New York’s Le SkyRoom on Wednesday, January 22nd from 10:30am-4pm. Some highlights here include a scarce signed limited edition fine press Gary Snyder volume, a rare volume inscribed by its author to massacre and captivity survivor Olive Oatman, several lovely vernacular photograph albums, and many radical labor publications including two nicely illustrated Hungarian labor movement journals from the 1930s.
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