Ken Sanders Rare Books

New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. First edition (with only the New York imprint). Hardcover. 320; 318pp. Duodecimo. Original brown cloth with ornamental blind stamping and gilt stamped vignettes. Engraved frontispiece illustrations. Housed in modern plain black portfolios and slipcase [20.5 cm]. One portfolio a bit moisture damaged. The rear board of volume 1 is subtly moisture stained, and the front board of volume 2 has a bit of unobtrusive black staining. There are several approximately 1" closed tears to the backstrip of volume 1, with the tears being primarily at the head and foot along the joints. The front free endpaper of volume 1 is absent, and the top third of the dedication page in this volume has been torn out. The pages of volume 1 are periodically foxed, while the pages of volume 2 are rather bright. The text block of volume 1 is cracked at p. 75, and pp. 81-88 are hanging by a thread. Complete with 6 plates and 2 maps. One page of text is present twice. The large folding map has an 11" closed tear. Howes G 401. Wagner-Camp 108:1. Wheat, Vol. 2, pp. 186/87. Flake 3716 (With a section on Mormons in Independence...

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Paris: Édition Ollendorff, 1920. French edition, limited. SIGNED. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Blank wrappers in Masereel-designed olive jacket, with detached front panel and folds. In the publisher's original glassine wrapper, remarkably well preserved, with only light chipping to the edges. Ritter B a 11. Good. Item #64051 First edition of Flemish artist Frans Masereel's influential wordless novel told entirely through 83 wood block illustrations. The novel centers around the themes of inspiration and commitment. Number 734 in an edition limited to 800 printed on Volumineux Anglais, from a total edition of 878. This copy inscribed by Masereel on front flyleaf to art critic Christian Zervos. Zervos founded the magazine "Cahiers d'art" (1926-1960) in Paris.

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New York: George H. Colton, 1845. First periodical appearance of "The Raven" Leather bound. 656pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispiece illustrations. Tidemarks in the top fore-edge corners of the frontispiece illustrations (only just barely affecting the illustrations). Frontispiece tissue-guard torn, with loss. Occasional light foxing to the pages. The Raven is on pp. 143-145. Also with Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy," p. 363 (first printing), "The Valley of Unrest," p. 392, and "The City of the Sea," p. 393. Heartman and Canny, pp. 145/146. Robertson, pp. 215/216. Very good. Item #62072 The first setting up in type of "The Raven." "The Raven," a melancholy summoning of lost love, is Poe's best known poem. The rhyme pattern enhances the poem's lyrical gloom.

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Salt Lake City, UT: Bill Shipler Photo, [c.1940]. Reprints. Eleven 8" x 10" black and white photographs by the renowned Salt Lake firm of Shipler Commercial Photographers (8 are landscape format, 3 are portrait format). All eleven photographs are reprints, in very good condition, using the original negatives and were produced circa 1940. Item #63784 Eleven iconic views of early twentieth century Salt Lake City. The photographs with the original photograph dates are: 1- Salt Lake Theatre interior with charity ball decorations [First South and State Street], November 8, 1906. 2- Saltair swimmers with Giant Racer in the background [Great Salt Lake], July 4, 1913. 3- Royal Cafe / Cohn's [Main Street between Second and Third South], March 18, 1922. 4- McCormick Block / Crandall Building [First South and Main Street], June 19, 1905. 5- Templeton Building [Main Street and South Temple], December 12, 1905. 6- The Alta Club [State Street and South Temple], December 4, 1905. 7- Felt Building [Main Street between Third and Fourth South - east side], December 8, 1910. 8- Daft [Daynes] Building [Main Street between First and Second South - west side], March 23, 1906. 9- Boyd Park Building [Main Street between First and Second...

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New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 262pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. The spine is rolled. Very good minus. Item #57091 Thurman's first published novel offers a frank portrayal of prejudice within the black community, and was divisive among the public and critics alike. Thurman was already fairly well known within the "Harlem Renaissance," but the publication of this work would announce his talents to a wider audience, and would help to cement his reputation as a writer who would take on unpopular (and sometimes uncomfortable) subjects. This copy bears two interesting indications of its Hollywood provenance: the bookplate of longtime M-G-M writer-producer Carey Wilson is on the front pastedown; and on the rear pastedown is a label from the celebrated Satyr Book Shop on Vine Street (which was located in the same building as the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant), from where the book was most likely originally purchased.

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Circa 1912. 26" x 33" [34" x 42" in wood frame]. Color collotype engraving after an oil painting by Thomas Moran (view from Hermit's Road). With original brass 'Grand Canyon National Park, Daily Service via Santa Fe, From Painting by Thomas Moran, N.A' plaque. The original oil painting was purchased by the Santa Fe Railroad to use in their campaign to promote tourist rail travel to the Grand Canyon. This image, after the original, is bright and rich, and shows Moran's dramatic view of the Grand Canyon. Item #58180 Doris Ostrander Dawdy points out in "Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary," that Thomas Moran (1837-1926), nicknamed "T. Yellowstone Moran" by his companions on the Territorial Surveys, was only 34 years old when he sketched the Yellowstone region. Shortly thereafter he went on to sketch the Yosemite Valley, the north rim of the Grand Canyon, and the plateaus of Utah. Mount Moran in the Grand Teton range is named after him in recognition of his work on the Hayden Surveys. A stunning and sweeping Moran image.

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Washington DC: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Circa 1942. Poster. A suite of three WWII posters, 14" x 20". Each poster has been mounted to a thin card board. With some creasing, and occasional small losses from the edges. The largest loss is from the top right corner of the "palabra" poster, measuring 4" x 3". The posters also have a general layer of light glue-staining. Three American WWII posters depicting the themes of Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom of Speech. These posters were meant to highlight Franklin D. Roosevelt's four freedoms (here three), and to sway Latin American opinion against Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Spanish text at the foot of each poster reads: "One of the 4 liberties for which the allies fight." Good. Item #58639 Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was an American artist and graphic designer who worked mostly in the realm of poster art. He was born in Montana, however he moved to England and became an expatriate. He was very influential in Europe, however he was only known in the United States by a handful of those well versed in the study of design. Interestingly, despite his obscurity in America, in 1937...

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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Peter Parnall. First edition, signed association copy. Hardcover. SIGNED. 269 pp. [22 cm]; full brown cloth with white and brown stamped spine. Illustrated dust jacket. The spine ends are gently bumped. The book is tightly and squarely bound. In a very attractive dust jacket, with light edge-wear, which includes a very short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Very good + / very good. Item #62011 Drawings and jacket design by Peter Parnall. The author's fourth book and first work of nonfiction. Five thousand copies of the first edition were printed. It has now gone on to sell over two million copies taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as a classic of environmental and wilderness literature. This copy is inscribed by Edward Abbey to Ernie Bulow, bookman, publisher, and friend of the author, on the front free endpaper. After receiving an English degree in the sixties, Bulow worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, resided in Gallup, N.M., and taught English at Fort Wingate on the Navajo Reservation. Subsequently, he received a doctorate from the University of Utah, and he returned to...

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