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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[New York]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 480pp. Octavo [21 cm] in tan cloth with spine title stamped in blue, cover title in orange. Scotch tape applied in several places along reverse of jacket to short tears at edges, jacket price clipped; fading to jacket spine. Boards are crisp and unworn. Interior unmarked. Now in new custom clamshell case. Fine / very good. Item #56641 First edition, first printing, with printing statement on copyright page and 'Jefferson' instead of 'Mottstown' on page 340, line 1.

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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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[Saint Louis]: [Printed by the Daily Missouri Republican], [1848]. 8pp. Octavo [22 cm] No covers with eleven stab holes at the left margin from being previously bound with other material. The first leaf has been printed off center with a few words of text cut at the foot of the first page near the right margin. Otherwise a clean copy of this rare work. Housed in a custom linen clamshell. Item #45866 This epistle marks the beginning of Mormonism in Utah. The epistle recounts the troubles in Nauvoo, and the subsequent evacuation. It also announces the establishment of the LDS headquarters in the Great Salt Lake Valley. The epistle also urges Saints converging upon the Great Basin to bring whatever they may to help the settlement flourish. According to Crawley: "General Epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles marks the beginning of Mormonism's Utah period. Issued fifty-three days after Brigham Young and most of the Twelve returned to Winter Quarters following their trek to the Great Salt Lake Valley, it opens with an account of the evacuation of Nauvoo, the settling of the Iowa camps, the call of the Mormon Battalion, and the overland journey of the pioneer company...

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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; D, 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 preface pages. Volume 30 has some dark staining, the result...

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