Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 282pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Over the past thirty years, an enormous amount of research has been conducted into Mormon origins—Joseph Smith’s early life, the Book of Mormon, the prophet’s visions, and the restoration of priesthood authority. Longtime LDS..... More about An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2006. Later printing. Hardcover. 788pp. Ocatvo [23.5 cm] Red boards. New in like jacket. Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that... More about In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
London: Cassell, 1957-1960. Mixed printings. Hardcover. 416; 344; 332; 322pp. Octavo [25 cm] Red cloth over boards. The spine and boards are lightly edgeworn. In dust jackets with toning to the spines, and on the reverse, a number of small tape repairs (only very occasionally backing negligible short closed tears)... More about A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4 volumes
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2017. First edition. Paperback. 257 pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]; illustrated wraps. "In Mormonism we are sometimes seemingly casual about death: it's a veil or a mission call to the spirit world. But our actual encounters with the reality of death inevitably change us in... More about Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 404 pp; Octavo [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. More about Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Grim Natwick. First edition. Hardcover. 77pp. Sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. In a matching, price-clipped dust jacket, featuring the artwork of Herbert Johnson. There is a contemporary owner's lengthy notation in neat pen on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket... More about Ether and Me or "Just Relax"
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Thin folio [31 cm] Blue cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with only minor surface and edge wear. Signed by both Mark Strand and Red Grooms on the title page. More about Rembrandt Takes a Walk
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, February, 1971. Second printing. Hardcover. 240pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Yellow cloth with black ink stamped titles on the backstrip and front cover. Pictorial endsheets. Illustrated throughout. The spine is slightly rolled. In the dust jacket, featuring the art of Robert Schlecter. The dust jacket has a.... More about Uintah Railway: The Gilsonite Route
Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [24cm]; photo illustrated wraps. In western culture, rock art has traditionally been viewed as “primitive” and properly belonging in the purview of anthropologists rather than art scholars and critics. This volume, featuring previously unpublished photographs..... More about Standing on the Walls of Time: Ancient Art of Utah's Cliffs and Canyons
Draper, UT: Review and Preview Publishers, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 517pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with black vein patterns and gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. There is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. From the Preface- "Sages and prophets... More about Voices of Women Approbating Celestial or Plural Marriage Volume One: My Sacred Heritage
June, 1958. Hardcover. 151; 4pp. Quarto [28 cm] A thesis bound in sturdy light green cloth over boards, with minor traces of soil on the boards. The spine is just a trifle rolled back. Walter Murray Gibson, a colorful character, was a dominant figure in the Hawaiian Legislature. More about The Life and Intrigues of Walter Murray Gibson: A Thesis Presented to the Department of Church...
Chicago: Playboy Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 188pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with silver stamping. The covers are a bit cocked, and there is a remainder mark at the foot of the text block. In a dust jacket, with moderate rubbing to the panels, light chipping at... More about How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography by Lenny Bruce
Paulmar, Inc., 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 224pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Glossy paper over boards. Index. Richly illustrated, some in color. A book relating the infrastructure of Harrisburg and Leeds, the recovery of silver from the deposits, the history of the disastrous fires in the community, the Treasure Trove of W.... More about Silver, Sinners and Saints: A History of Old Silver Reef, Utah
New York: American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, 1885. Later printing. Hardcover. 375pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown pebbled cloth over boards. The extremities are rubbed, the spine is moderately sunned, and the endpapers are foxed. Second edition, carefully revised, with a new preface by the Translator, including explanatory notes and observations. More about Heaven and Its Wonders, the World of Spirits, and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen (Heaven and Hell
Los Angeles: National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, Circa 1963. Paperback. Very slim octavo [21 cm] Saddle-stitched wraps. Ex-libris Ethel C. Hale, a prominent Utah community activist, known for her peace advocacy and her longtime involvement in community radio, among other things. The title page has her... More about House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwark of Segregation
New York: William Morrow, 2005. Later printing. Paperback. 430; 16pp. Octavo [20 cm] Printed wraps. This Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book was born. More about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 309pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. The foot of the spine is gently bruised. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the surface. Set in our own time along the bloody... More about No Country for Old Men
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 165 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Trade softcover. From back cover: Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard... More about Ask the Dust
New York: Ecco, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 557pp. Octavo. Pictoral covers. From the jacket: "To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw... More about The Pleasures of the Damned; Poems: 1951-1993
New York: Ecco Press, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 239pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Wikipedia: "Hollywood is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences of adapting his novel into the film Barfly. It is narrated in the first person." More about Hollywood
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 421pp. Octavo [20 cm] White pictorial wrappers. The late great Edward Abbey published twenty one books during his lifetime (two posthumously) Both The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire have gone on to become what the author always dreaded "classics" and have... More about The Monkey Wrench Gang
Salt Lake City: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2017. May we carry your books? (KSRB Tote). Store logo in white ink on black cloth tote bag. More about Ken Sanders Rare Books Tote Bag
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. John James Audubon. First Royal Octavo Edition. [25.5 x 15.5 cm]; sewing holes visible with minor foxing; this print also contains an original text page. Embossed library stamp on bottom left corner of print. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds... More about Rathbone's Wood Warbler, Plate 89
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. John James Audubon. First Royal Octavo Edition. [25.5 x 15.5 cm]; sewing holes visible; this print also contains a few of the original text pages. Embossed library stamp on bottom right corner of print. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds... More about Common Osprey Fish Hawk, Plate 15
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. First edition. Paperback. 96pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed, and the pages are tanned. Walt Kelly's career in animation began in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to Pinocchio and Fantasia. In... More about The Jack Acid Society Black Book