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[Los Angeles]: MCA Records, 1978. Single sheet [61 cm x 42 cm] white stock printed in color. Nice condition. Promotional poster from MCA Records for Golden Earing's 'Grab It for a Second.'.

Chicago: Union Pacific Railroad, 1931. Color birds-eye map [46 cm x 81 cm] Very good. A few small splits at the folds, three short tape repairs at vertical fold on the reverse. Folds as issued. Map drawn by Gerald A. Eddy. Charming birds-eye map produced by the Union Pacific to try to entice tourists to the Mojave, southern Nevada (this was before Las Vegas was "Las Vegas"), and the surrounding area, that was also served by the U.P. and the Utah Parks Company, with the lodges at Bryce, Zion, Cedar Breaks. and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon located. Valley of Fire and Buried City are also located. The reverse contains information on the Dam and area, including descriptions of the location, the hydroelectric capabilities, Boulder City, Las Vegas and recreational suggestions. "Down in the rock-walled recesses of the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, an army of men and a vast array of titan machinery are busily engaged in the construction of one of the greatest engineering projects of its kind the… Read More

[Omaha, NE]: Union Pacific Railroad, 1938. Color birds-eye map [46 cm x 78 cm]. Better than very good. Folds as issued. Map drawn by Gerald A. Eddy. Charming birds-eye map produced by the railroad to try to entice tourists to the Mojave, southern Nevada (this was before Las Vegas was "Las Vegas"), and the surrounding area, that was also served by the U.P. and the Utah Parks Company, with the lodges at Bryce, Zion, Cedar Breaks. and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon located. Valley of Fire and Buried City are also located. The reverse contains information on the Dam and area, including descriptions of the location, the hydroelectric capabilities, Boulder City, Las Vegas and recreational suggestions. "Down in the rock-walled recesses of the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, an army of men and a vast array of titan machinery are busily engaged in the construction of one of the greatest engineering project of its kind the world has ever known - Boulder Dam.

St. Louis, MO: Quality Medical Publishing, Inc, 2007. Second Edition. 2 volume set. 644, 647-1516pp. Quarto [29 cm] Blue buckram with silver stamped titles. Very good with no marks or writing.

Chicago, IL: Quintessence Publishing Co, 1986. First Edition. 605pp. Quarto [24 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine with no marks or writing. Rare.

[Washington, DC]: [A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer], 1855. Engraving [15 cm x 22.5 cm] on a sheet [30 cm x 38 cm] that shows light overall foxing. This image taken from Beckwith's (after Gunnison's death) Central Pacific survey of the Pacific Railroad Survey. Engraved by C. Schumann.

[Salt Lake City], 1935. [94]pp. Oblong quarto [26 cm x 33.5 cm] Side-sewn brown pebbled buckram. 426 silver gelatin snapshots (most 3.5" x 2.5") in corner mounts on black leaves. Views well identified in ink in margins. The album is interspersed throughout with 47 contemporary post cards, 11 are RPPCs. A handful of larger photographs appear throughout. An excellent vernacular photography album that nicely documents recreating in Utah by a group of hunters, fishers, hikers, and adventurers. Views of the Wasatch foothills, (Grandeur, Parley's, Willow Creek, Big Cottonwood, Little Cottonwood, Lamb's), Provo Canyon and River, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, Salt Flats, Dry Lake, Lake Tahoe, Redwoods, Cedar Valley, Skull Valley, Promontory, Ogden Canyon, Iosepa, Ensign Peak, Strawberry River, Wolf Creek, Fish Lake, and other locales. Some nice views of the Salt Lake Temple and Sugarhouse street scenes. Nicely identified and dated. This is the finest such album that we've handled. This album appears to have… Read More

Washington DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. Senate Issue, 30th Congress, 1st Session. Executive, No. 7. 416pp. Octavo [23 cm] Rebound in full brown leather with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. New marbled endsheets and pastedowns. 42 of 43 plates (lacks 'Chain of Natural Spires on the Gila). Large map not present. This is among the most important government reports on overland travel, with accounts of the march of the Army of the West from Missouri to Santa Fe, and the Mexican-American War in New Mexico and California. Emory went on to explore the overland route to California via southern Arizona, and took part in the American conquest of southern California. The text is illustrated with some of the first American views of the far Southwest. Cowan I p.77. Cowan II p. 195. Eberstadt 114:911. Graff 1249. Howes E145. Reese, Best of the West 103. Rittenhouse 188. Wagner/Camp 148:2. Zamorano 33.

[Salt Lake City], 1880. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 16 cm] on an orange mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Rubbing to corners of mount. View is a little faded with a spot to the left view near the head. Manuscript identification in ink on the reverse. Nice view of the original St. Mark's Schoolhouse that was located on the southeast corner of State Street and First South in downtown Salt Lake City (present site of the Federal Building). View shows St. Mark's School with a horse drawn cart out front. The cart's passenger is a young girl, a young boy stands behind the cart, and a woman is visible in the doorway of the school. St. Mark's School was founded in 1867 by the Episcopal Church, it was originally housed in a bowling alley (this was later the site of the Walker House), and then Independence Hall - this building was constructed to be the school in 1872 for a cost of $25,000. Later St. Mark's would join with Rowland Hall. The present-day Rowland-Hall campuses are a few blocks apart one in the 9th… Read More

St. Louis, MO: C.V. Mosby Company, 1986. First Edition. 2 volume set. 540, 542-1179pp. Quarto [29 cm] Grained red buckram with gilt titles. Near fine with no marks or writing.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1922. First Edition. 101pp. Octavo [25 cm] Brown cloth with the title printed on the spine. Near fine. Academic work on Mormon group life and culture, which would be revisited decades later by Arrington's Great Basin Kingdom. "To explain the Mormon community life in terms of its whole life process, its conflicts, its struggles, its crises, is the problem of this thesis. Although there were notions advocated by Joseph Smith which were antecedent to the conflict and which really occasioned it yet these were not important in themselves. Had it not been for the conflict which forced them upon the attention, they would perhaps not have survived. It is group conflict and struggles which have created and maintained the basic Mormon sentiments." - pg.9 Flake/Draper 3180.