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New York: Random House, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page to Santa Fe bookseller, Nicholas Potter: "For Nicholas Potter | With all best wishes | from your friend | Cormac McCarthy." 337 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]. Publisher's red cloth and red paper-covered boards, lettering stamped in gilt with ruling in metallic red. Maroon dust jacket designed by Richard Adelson with red typography and Salvador Dalì's “The Phantom Cart” on the front. Photograph of the author by Mark Morrow on the back. First edition clearly stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket with "$17.95" price intact at top-front flap and "3/85" code at the bottom of the rear flap. Housed in a custom slipcase by Robert Wang of Denver, mirroring the dust jacket design. A Near Fine copy, with only a few light spots of surface soil at the edges of the text block, which is otherwise clean, solid, and square. The dust jacket is also Near Fine, with only very light surface rubbing, some minor wear near the folds, and just a hint of toning at the top edge. A bright, attractive copy with an intimate association. Near Fine...

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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.

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London: 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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Basileæ (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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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 458pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt title stamped on spine. Just a hair bruised at the spine ends. Hinges just a little soft. In a worn dust jacket, with closed and open tears in the edges. These tears have been backed with tape. Signed by Sinclair Lewis on the front free endpaper. A previous owner, Jerome K. Zipkin, has written his name in pen above the author's signature. Zipkin was an American socialite known for his friendship with Nancy Reagan. Very Good / Good. Item #69936 A signed first edition copy of Lewis' book of dystopian political fiction that is eerily reminiscent of the chaos and corruption facing many wealthy nations today. Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" was written just two years after Hitler's rise to power in Germany and describes the United States' descent into fascism controlled by Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Its title comes from a line from a wealthy capitalist in response to a journalist raising concerns that the country's new leader has transformed into a demagogue.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Maxfield Parrish. First edition. Hardcover. 46 pp. Folio [35.5 cm] Black cloth with full color illustration on front board. Very minor wear at the spine ends and corners of the covers. Text block just beginning to crack at p. 18 and p. 34, however still extremely sturdy. Illustrations bright and crisp. A nearly pristine copy of this illustrated high-spot. Not often seen in such wonderful condition. Complete. Item #70120 The author was the wife of the legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins. Beautifully illustrated with lavish full-page and in text illustrations - all in full color. Full-color illustrations on the endpapers. This volume shows Maxfield Parrish at the height of his abilities. Parrish's masterpiece- a definite high point in the Golden Age of illustration, and one of the greatest illustrated books ever.

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Liverpool: Franklin D. Richards, 1855. First edition. viii [1] - 120 pp. With the frontispiece folding map by F. D. Richards and all engravings and woodcuts present. Folio [31 cm] Rebacked in red leather with gilt bands and gilt stamped title on the spine. Original marble boards, with underlying boards exposed along the edges. Sprinkled edges. New gray endpapers. Hinges reinforced. Ex-library, with a single library label on the front pastedown. The front flyleaf has several minor tears to the fore-edge, and there are light tide marks (the majority of them small) in the margins of the plates. These marks occasionally just begin to bleed into the images. Caption title of bottom engraving on plate facing p. 44 trimmed close. The celebrated map shows the Utah Territory, outlined by hand in red, with its various counties; the Mormon trail is shown in brown and blue. In this map, Utah still includes Nevada and shows up as the only important Territory of the Great Basin. Fremont's routes are marked as well. The work was issued with 9 woodcuts and 30 engraved plates; all are present in this copy. There is a small pencil tick-mark next to the title of each of...

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Springville, UT: Anderson and Crandall (Photography Studio), 1893. Photograph. Large format albumen photograph [approximately 40 cm x 25 cm] in a nice period ornamental wooden frame. An attractive image with nice contrasts. This has not been examined outside of the frame. Near Fine. Item #67327 A photo collage depicting a view of the Salt Lake City Temple above a picture of Brigham Young. A small banner design with the text "Salvation for the Dead" is shown above the image of the temple. These images are situated above a book that reads "Book of Life. In Memory of Brigham Young [...]", and two other open books below that, all surrounded by a decorative border of flowers. A lovely design and production. Rare. George Edward Anderson (1860-1928) was born in Salt Lake City and lived in Springville, Utah. He was a devout Mormon who photographed and documented many of the prominent figures, scenes, and landmarks of Utah and LDS history. Anderson & Crandall was the short-lived business partnership between George Edward Anderson and Lucian D. Crandall in Springville, Utah, circa 1892-93.

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Circa 1880s-1890s? Original painting [17 5/8" x 12 2/8"] in a frame [25 1/8" x 19 6/8"]. In pen on the reverse: "South of Salt Lake City. G. M. Ottinger- painter." Signed with his initials "G.M.O." in the lower corner. Item #69478 A painting which is impressionistic in style, and which appears to have the Wasatch mountains in the background. George Martin Ottinger (1833-1917) is considered among Utah's most prominent artists. After experiencing a tumultuous childhood and wandering extensively while employed as a young sailor, Ottinger briefly enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he set himself up as a painter of miniatures. In 1861, Ottinger and his mother, both converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, journeyed west by covered wagon to Utah. In Utah, he painted scenery for the Salt Lake Theatre, was involved in the founding and ten-month life of the Deseret Academy of Fine Arts, and continued his previous career as a photo-tinter in partnership with Charles Roscoe Savage, a well known English photographer in the Salt Lake Valley since 1860. In 1881, he helped assemble the Salt Lake Art Association, and...

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Salt Lake City, UT: Frank H. Nelden & Co., Basement Wasatch Drug Store, [late July, 1882]. Ephemera. Folio (35 cm x 25.5 cm), [4] pp, lithographically printed, with an illustrated masthead; the central column of the front page is devoted to the Walker Grand Opera House concert for Saturday evening, July 29, 1882, with a detailed programme for a performance by The Original Tennessee Jubilee and Plantation Singers (the programme is continued on the second page); the remainder of the publication is filled with advertisements (several illustrated) for an array of Salt Lake City businesses, including F. H. Nelden's Wasatch Drug Store and mercantile printery, W. H. Yearian & Co., Joslin & Park, Rudolph Alff, Mulloy & Paul, Walker Bros., Chapman & Whytock, Goldsmith & Co., Cohn Bros., W. L. Pickard, G. M. Peirce, F. E. Schoppe, A. L. Williams, Jos. Baumgarten, Kelly Bros., John S. Lindsay, J. D. Farmer, Careless & Croxall, Buckle & Son, Durst & Trimble, Great Western Trunk Factory, C. J. Gustaveson, F. M. Bishop, and Geo. A. Meears; the third page contains numerous pieces of advertising copy for some of the aforementioned enterprises, plus a cryptically-worded paragraph spruiking celebrated Salt Lake City artist Alfred Lambourne's...

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London: Publisher not printed on title pages, 1883. Subscriber's Copy. Hardcover. 565; 659pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Green cloth over boards with lettering in gilt and black and blind ruled borders on the backstrip and boards. Underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges. Endpapers cracked along the hinges and hinges weak. Date in pen on front endpapers near the hinge. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedowns. Tiny numerical notation on the title pages. Text block of volume 2 cracked at the center. *** Lacks chart. Plate III (Map, Ancient India and Adjoining Countries) has a 4 1/2" tape repair to the reverse. May require extra postage due to weight. Good. Item #68938 Includes detailed information on Tree Worship, Serpent and Phallic Worship, Fire Worship, Sun Worship, the Early Faiths of Western Asia, and Faiths Exhibited by Western and Eastern Aborgines. James George Roche Forlong (1824-1904) joined the Indian Army in 1843. He was appointed as an Engineer in the army based in Myamar in 1852. In the years 1858-9 he travelled widely in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Spain. Subsequently, his engineering skills continued to take him to numerous other locations. He later retired and began writing on...

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Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1981. Edward Abbey. First Peregrine Smith Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light orange boards with title stamped in black ink on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Spine a touch rolled; spine ends bumped. Light rubbing to edges of the boards. Dust jacket is bright, though the spine is a tiny bit sun toned. Edges a bit chipped. Very Good - / Very good. Item #68030 ISBN: 0879050705 Inscribed by Edward Abbey in black ink on the front free endpaper. A work first published in 1968. Drawings by Edward Abbey. Photographs by Gibbs Smith. Includes a four page introduction by the author that only appears in this edition. Illustrated with nineteen chapter head illustrations by the author that appear only in this edition. The author's seminal and enduring work. Abbey foresaw the coming of industrial tourism while a ranger at then Arches National Monument in the 1950s.

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