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Salt Lake City: Cinema in Your Face!, 1988. Movie poster [57.5 cm x 73 cm] / [22.5" x 29"] Printed in black and white. Vertical and horizontal fold intesect at center otherwise better than very good. Poster for the 'Incredibly Bizarre Short - Film Festival #1' that featured short films from David Lynch ('Alphabet' and 'The Grandmother'), Timothy and Stephen Quay, "The Brothers Quay" ('The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer' and 'The Epic of Gilgamesh') and Survival Research Laboratories ('A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief' and 'Baited Trap - A Tale of Meat, Torment and Murder'). 'A Bitter Message..' is the only SRL 'show' shot as a film with a story line. The two Lynch shorts are his first two student films (the second made with an AFI grant). This one-off film festival screened at Salt Lake City's Cinema in Your Face! from May 12th to the 18th in 1988. Cinema in Your Face was Salt Lake's independent arthouse that closed when the owners acquired 9th and 9th's Tower Theatre.

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992. First Edition. 309pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. - 'The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History' by Leonard J. Arrington - 'The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism' by Mario S. De Pillis - 'The Significance of Joseph Smith's 'First Vision' in Mormon Thought' by James B. Allen - 'The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith' by Jan Shipps - 'Dream and Nightmare: Nauvoo Revisited' by Robert Bruce Flanders - 'A Gift Given, A Gift Taken: Washing, Anointing, and Blessing the Sick among Mormon Women' by Linda King Newell - 'A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980' by Dean May - 'Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls: A New Look at an Old Story' by William G. Hartley - 'The "Leading Sister": A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Society' by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher - 'Notes on Mormon Polygamy' by Stanley S. Ivins - 'Divorce among Mormon Polygamists: Extent… Read More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. 477pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark blue cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans has elicited critical acclaim as well as controversy. Using Mormonism as a case study of the extent of early America's acceptance of same-sex intimacy, Quinn examines several examples of long-term relationships among Mormon same-sex couples and the environment in which they flourished before the onset of homophobia in the late 1950s. "I recognize that some members of the LDS Church wish there was no evidence of any same-sex experiences among early Mormons and prefer to ignore such evidence that does exist. For example, one Mormon historian (who I do not identify here in any way) strenuously recommended against the publication of this study and argued that it 'does not address important historical issues. Certainly it is not surprising to… Read More

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002. First Edition. 631pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark gray cloth with the title stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed D. Michael Quinn / Signature Books bookplate laid in. In this impressive study of the "elder statesman," as reporters labeled Clark, Quinn considers what it meant for a Latter-day Saint to attain such national and international stature. J. Reuben Clark (1871-1961) was an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as a prominent attorney and dedicated civil servant (In 1930 Clark was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico) He was a member of the First Presidency for nearly thirty years.

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997. First Edition. 313pp Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A nice copy of this influential work, without the usual fading to the spine. This thoroughly researched examination into occult traditions surrounding Smith, his family, and other founding Mormons cannot be understated. Among the practices no longer a part of Mormonism is the use of divining rods for revelation, astrology to determine the best times to conceive children and plant crops, the study of skull contours to understand personality traits, magic formulae utilized to discover lost property, and the wearing of protective talismans. Ninety-four photographs and illustrations accompany the text.