New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 179pp. Octavo [20 cm] in green cloth stamped in gilt, black, and blind. Map frontispiece. The extremities are lightly bumped and rubbed, the underlying boards are just beginning to peek through at the corners of the covers, and the front..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company. 1988. First edition, 1/700. Hardcover. 300pp. Octavo. Red cloth with gilt title and rules on backstrip. Illustrated. Index. Fine in original Clark shipping wrapper. Milligan's journal is the only day by day record of the final Fremont expedition. Western Frontiersmen Series, XXI. (21). More
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Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Printing Co., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 417pp. Octavo [20 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and embossed borders on the front cover. Pastedowns illustrated with brand symbols. Very good. The extremities are very lightly bumped and rubbed. There are multiple faint smudge marks..... More
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Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Printing Co., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 417pp. Octavo [20 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and embossed borders on the front cover. Pastedowns illustrated with brand symbols. There are several light stains on the front board. The autobiography of a German-born frontier builder..... More
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 494; [viii] pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a blind stamped emblem on the front cover. With gentle bumping to the extremities. Publications of The Champlain Society LXIV. One in an..... More
Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Co., 1911. Early edition. Hardcover. 319pp. Octavo [20cm]. Blue paper with title in gilt on spine, and title and designs in gilt and white on front board. Moderate wear to boards, particularly at edges. Multiple previous owner inscriptions on front free endpaper. Pages are mildly..... More
San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 316pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Sea green cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decorative embellishments on the backstrip. Illustrated. The spine is rolled back. In a good, price-clipped dust jacket, with numerous small closed and open tears in the..... More
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 239pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with light brown paper over boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The covers are a little cocked. There is a previous owner's ink stamp on the title page..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 315pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown and black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The cloth at the head of the spine..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1973. Hardcover. 299pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light orange brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped and rubbed. There is a lengthy gift inscription on the front..... More
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1878. First edition. Leather bound. 292pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Contemporary brown leather with a gilt tooled spine, decorative gilt stamping on the boards, and the original owner's name stamped in gilt on the front board. Gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Illustrated. Moderate rubbing to..... More
Washington DC: American Folklife Center; A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book, 1983. First Harper & Row Edition. Hardcover. 228pp. Quarto [34 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and an embossed vignette on the front cover. Very good. There is a small red..... More
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 158pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with tan printed paper covered boards. Very good. The spine subtly rolled. With review slip tucked in. Illustrated with photographs of various forgeries. This book has been designed and printed at the press of..... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 26pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]. Patterned paper over gray and orange striped cloth. Paper title label on spine. Corners are lightly rubbed, with a very small tear in the upper corner of the front board. Limited edition of 225 copies printed, decorated with..... More
France: 2019. DVD. 90 min DVD. This is the US DVD version. A stunning documentary film on the life and disappearance of canyon country legend Everett Ruess, who vanished in Southern Utah in 1934 at the age of 20. Emmanuel Tellier is a well-known cultural journalist in France, as well..... More
Colorado Springs: Printed for the College, 1879. Fifth Edition. Illustrated. Paperback. 106pp. Slim octavo [22 cm] Pictorial wraps. Map frontispiece. Also with a number of illustrations (including several maps). The rear wrap is partially detached, and there is a 1" loss from the paper at the head of the spine..... More
Tempe: The Arizona Historical Foundation, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 210pp. Octavo [24 cm] Sea green cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the the spine and front cover. White endpapers printed in green. Very good. The extremities are just a little rubbed. In a very good dust jacket..... More
Privately printed, [1969]. First edition. Paperback. Quarto [28 cm] Stapled tan wraps, with a pictorial front wrap. Very good. General soiling to the covers. The covers are also lightly creased, and there are a couple of short, closed tears in the edges. Internally clean. This is a narrative of McKinley..... More
Vancouver, Canada: Mitchell Press Limited, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 413pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Orange paper over boards, with a slight warping to the boards, gentle bruising to the spine ends, and scattered light soiling on the fore-edge of the text block. In a dust jacket, with rubbing, light soiling, and..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 307pp. Octavo [21 cm] Turquoise blue cloth covered boards with silver and black ink stamped title information on the spine. Very good. Very slight spine slant. The edges of the spine and covers are very slightly bumped. The edges of the..... More
San Diego, Calif. Hillcrest Publishing Co., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 359 pp. Very good with good dustjacket. Fading of dustjacket around the edges and on the spine. Minor edge wear and creasing. A few holes from insect damage on the back panel of dj. Age toning to the fore edges..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 113pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Orange cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a printed title label mounted to the front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are very lightly rubbed. The underlying..... More
Circa 1932. 32pp. Slender octavo [23 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps, with mild soiling to the wraps, and periodic light dampstaining to the extremities of the pages. A handful of pages have abraded tears, partially obscuring the images. From the preliminary text- "Mystery, romance, charm, splendor... the vastness of far-flung open..... More
Chicago: Arcadia, 2009. First edition. Paperback. 127pp. Printed pictorial wraps. Octavo. Heavily illustrated history of what was originally called "Camp Dopuglas" on what was the original route of the Overland Mail and the telegraph lines between Nevada and Wyoming. Portions of Fort Douglas still exist along ther east bench of..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 304pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light and dark brown cloth covered boards. Map endsheets. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The cloth at the bottom right corner of the front cover is slightly..... More