Melbourne, Australia: National Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 40 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; light brown clother covered boards with gilt spine in illustrated dust jacket. Bumping to spine ends of boards with minor stain on rear board near spine. Dust jacket stained along spine and front cover with various... More about American Civilization
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, August, 1922. Original printing. Paperback. View book. Slim oblong octavo [15 cm x 23 cm] Saddle-stitched wraps. There is a thin stain along the fore-edge of the front wrap. Views include, "An Airplane View of the Campus," "The Medical Building," "The Museum... More about "U" Views: Scenes at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Bulletin of The University...
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845. First edition, Senate issue. Hardcover. 693pp. Octavo [23 cm] Decoratively embossed brown cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine. The front hinge has been discreetly repaired, and this copy lacks the front flyleaf. The pages have periodic light foxing and tide... More about Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and...
Los Angeles: Sumac Poetry Series, a Center Publications book, 1979. Paperback. SIGNED. 70pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Tan, black and white illustrated wraps. Some rubbing and wear to outer wraps. Spine sunned. Approx. 2" crease to upper right corner and crease across bottom of outer front wrap. Bumping to head corners... More about Letters to Yesenin and Returning to Earth
Nauvoo: Edited, Printed, and Published by John Taylor, January 15, 1845-February 15, 1846. [768] - 1135pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with marbled paper over boards. The text block is just barely hanging on to the covers. The front free endpaper is nearly completely loose. The text block is... More about The Times and Seasons: Containing a Compendium of Intelligence Pertaining to the Upbuilding of...
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1998. First edition thus. Hardcover. 209pp. Short oblong quarto [22 cm x 26 cm] 1/4 blue buckram, with tan cloth over boards. The top edges of the pages are subtly rippled. In a dust jacket, with light scratching to the surface. A special reprint... More about The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 1066pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth over boards. The front hinge is soft, the extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the pages are a bit yellowed. "Raintree Country" was made into a film in 1957, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. More about Raintree Country
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. 241pp. Octavo [24 cm.] 1/2 black cloth over rust colored boards, with a minor smudge on the fore-edge of the text block. The head of the backstrip is gently bruised. In a dust jacket, with only trivial wear to the rear panel... More about The Road
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 818pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with rust-colored paper over boards. Small smudge on front of dust jacket. A first edition of the inspiration for Broadway's musical hit, Hamilton! More about Alexander Hamilton
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 502pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "Winner of Pulitzer Prize" label on front wrap. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune... More about The Overstory
New York: Pantheon, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 419pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 orange paper with light blue paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and the author's initials stamped in gilt on the front cover. In the illustrated dust jacket. "In her most original, provocative, and... More about Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 319pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black cloth with black paper over boards. The fore-edge of the text block is a trifle soiled. Signed by Stephen Trimble on the title page. From front inside flap: "Beginning with an Olympic ski race... More about Bargaining For Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America
New York: Atheneum, 1970. John Gerbino. First edition. Hardcover. 97pp. Small square quarto [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with rubbing, a couple of small closed edge tears, and a shallow loss from the paper at the head of the spine. Illustrated by John Gerbino... More about The Nixon Poems
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 302pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth over boards. There is a contemporary owner's brief notation along the top edge of the front free endsheet. In the dust jacket, with subtle age-toning. With pen-and-ink drawings by Olaus Murie. A nature book set... More about Wapiti Wilderness
Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art, 2014. First edition. 119pp. Square quarto [29.5x25.5cm]. Navy cloth with title stamped in white on the spine. Slightest bit of yellowing to edges of dust jacket. Nearly imperceptible remnants of original price sticker on back of dust jacket. With contributions by Michael E. Shapiro... More about Segregation Story
Annual Souvenir Edition. Paperback. 146pp. Octavo [23 cm] Orange pictorial wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed and toned. With many local advertisements, and numerous photographic representations of individuals mounted on horses, including Sheriff LeRoy Hadley, Lieutenant Bud Favero, Lieutenant Glen L. Hall, Pete Boam (Historian), and Don A. Buswell, among others. More about Sheriff's Mounted Posse. Weber County, Utah. Official Magazine. 1956 Annual
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 447pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with silver stamping on the backstrip. Publisher's light red top stain. Brown endpapers reproducing the author's initials. The spine is bumped at the head, and the boards show light shelf wear... More about Giant
Benicia Heritage Book, Inc, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 241pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with rubbing to the panels, and minor staining to the reverse. An exhaustive and definitive history of the area. More about Great Expectations: The Story of Benicia, California
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 325pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth over boards, with only light rubbing to the extremities. American Trails Series XI. A book which relates the beginnings of the southern overland route to California. More about The Road to California: The Search for a Southern Overland Route 1540-1848
Gallup, NM: Southwesterner Books, 1989. Limited Edition. 124pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Brown grained buckram with title in gilt on spine. Tiniest bit of shelfwear to dust jacket. Number 196/400. Signed by Hillerman, Franklin, and interviewer Ernie Bulow on the limitation page. More about Words, Weather and Wolfmen: Conversations with Tony Hillerman
Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2019. Allen Crawford. Second edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo [20.5cm]; green cloth illustrated boards, with white title and cover illustration. Walt Whitman's iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far... More about Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
New York: Tria. Reprint. Hardcover. 187pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Black cloth over boards with red lettering and decorative stamping on the spine and front cover. Publisher's yellow top stain. The fore-edges of the covers are subtly dampstained, the spine is rolled, and the endpapers are discolored. In a dust jacket... More about The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1966. First World Printing. Hardcover. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth covered boards, with the title and publisher's device stamped in gilt on the spine, and a blind stamped title on the front cover. The spine and boards show light edgewear, and the spine is just a.... More about Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 551pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and gilt and blind ruled lines on the spine and front cover. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Inscribed by Heber J. Grant directly on... More about Brigham Young: The Man and His Work
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 172pp. Large octavo [23 cm] 1/4 black cloth, with black paper covered boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Signed by Rick Bass on the title page. Rick Bass is the author of over twenty books, including nonfiction... More about Oil Notes