The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders (Presentation copy from the Mayor and City Council of Salt Lake City)
Salt Lake City: Edward W. Tullidge, c. 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy from the Mayor and City Council of Salt Lake City with the presentation slip bound in at the title page. viii, [3]-896, 28, 151pp. Thick octavo [25 cm] 3/4 brown leather with pebbled brown cloth covered boards. Extremities moderately rubbed. Thin 7" long stain on rear board. Stitching visible in the inside margins here and there. Contemporary owner's name in pen on the front flyleaf. Lightened area on title corresponding to the presentation slip. 8" closed tear to p. 201. Pp. 201-208 present in duplicate. Plates foxed to varying degrees, and mildly offset on the opposing pages. A small amount of ink staining in top margins of pp. 354-55. Pages darkened with age. Very Good Minus. Item #71463
Frontis engraved portrait of Brigham Young, plus 31 steel engraved portraits of prominent Utah men. Flake 9038a. Howes T409. With the Appendix, History of Salt Lake City Journalism.
Price: $750.00