Search Results: Titles starting with B from Tschanz Rare Books

Colorado Springs, CO: Paul Goerke, 1900. Boudoir albumen cabinet card [19 cm x 11 cm] On a cream mount [20.5 cm x 13 cm] with the photographer's hand stamp on the reverse in red ink. Near fine with strong contrasts. Nice image of a family(?) in front of Balanced Rock, with the mother and daughter each on a donkey, and the father standing behind them. Short manuscript note on the reverse: "Balance Rock. Garden of the Gods Colorado

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1961. First Edition. 475pp. Octavo [24 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. This work contains 204 songs from Mormon Country, compiled and edited by Lester A. Hubbard, and music transcripts by Kenly W. Whitelock. This is a collection of traditional songs and ballads which were sung by Mormons and other colonists who migrated to Utah between 1847-1900. Many of the converts to Mormonism came directly from Great Britain. A large number migrated from the Central and Eastern states to establish homes and a new life in Zion, as Utah was called. These immigrants, as well as Mormon missionaries in the United States and Europe, imported their favorite songs, which provided entertainment for several decades before modern music began to supplant them.

Salt Lake City, 1936. Bifolium [18.5 cm x 25.5 cm] on heavy card stock and printed in blue and brown inks. Vertical fold as issued. Near fine. Program and menu for the Utah High School Coaches banquet that was held at the Hotel Utah on October 31, 1936. "Utah high school coaches will be honored by The Telegram and The Tribune Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at a banquet at the Hotel Utah. The affair is the second annual gathering to discuss plans and problems concerning the coaches and the papers. More than 90 athletic directors are expected to attend. Dr. Adam S. Bennion will act as toastmaster and responses will be given by Coach Ike Armstrong of the University of Utah, Coach G. Ott Romney of Brigham Young University, Gus P. Backman, secretary of the Salt Lake City chamber of commerce; Frank K. Baker of The Telegram and Bob Goodell of The Tribune." - Salt Lake Telegram (1936-10-31).

Lamoni, IA: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1882. 10,[2]pp. Stapled wrappers. Age toning and minor chipping to these brittle pages. Work devoted to baptism by immersion. 'Epitome of the Faith and Doctrines of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' is printed on page [1]. Printed on the rear cover [2] is 'Kirtland Temple Suit, Findings of the Court in Lake County, Ohio. Printed by Herald House. Not listed by OCLC. I locate three institutional copies. Rare. Flake/Draper 6885.

[Ogden], 1950. Oil on board [61 cm x 77 cm] in a nice custom frame [69 cm x 85 cm] signed at the foot near the center in red. Bright painting from the notoriously reclusive artist. Image depicts a bar scene showing a sailor, woman and a bald man laughing and smiling. The sailor is likely a reference to the time Rosenbaum spent in Guadalcanal during World War II. David Howell Rosenbaum (1908-1982) was born in Brigham City and was part of the Logan group of artists who studied with Calvin Fletcher at the Utah State Agriculture College (USU) in 1931. During the Great Depression, he worked for the WPA Federal Art Project, painting many of his best-known works. In 1938, Rosenbaum moved to New York City to attend the Art Students League. Rosenbaum joined the navy at the start of the United States involvement in World War II. During his service in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, he drew many scenes and made several small watercolor paintings. He arrived home again sometime after the war, and was a… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 263+32pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped decorations to the front board and the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Collections of short stories by the celebrated author. Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a celebrated author and poet, who is best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later working there in several capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. First Edition. 90pp. Quarto [27 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over blue boards. Title in white on front board and on a label on the backstrip. Volume is fine. Age toning to publisher's glassine jacket. Historical Documents Institut Francais de Washington Cahier XI (11). Complete with fold-out map. Biographical sketch, including letters from B. Tardiveau to St. John de Crevecoeur (1788-1789). "In the pages that follow I have, as far as possible, allowed Tardiveau's own letters to relate his story. The setting in which I have placed them is intended only to round out and emphasize this self-portrait." - p. xi.

[Bozeman, MT]: A Schlechten, 1909. Platinum print photograph [28 cm x 35.5 cm] / [11" x 14"] in an attractive wooden frame [29 cm x 37 cm] / [11.5" x 14.5] Nice condition with strong contrasts. View of Albert Schlechten (1876-1962) with a bear he shot in the Madison Range, Gallatin Canyon, Montana. Possibly taken by his hunting and photography partner, Albert Krueger. Albert Schlechten (1876-1962) initially established a portrait photography studio with his brother but he spent most of his time and efforts on location and landscape photography. Shortly after his move to Montana in 1900, Albert purchased an 11x14 in. field camera and began photographing the mountains, rivers, lakes and farmland around Bozeman. Established in 1900, the Schlechten Brothers, became renowned for Albert's landscape photography.

[Salt Lake City], 2001. Movie poster [102 cm x 66 cm] 'A' condition. Fine. In a black frame [103 cm x 67 cm]. Movie poster for the theatrical release of the misunderstood masterpiece, The Beaver Trilogy. The Beaver Trilogy is a series of three pieces about the same subject, a young man from the small town of Beaver, Utah who is obsessed with Olivia Newton John. The first piece,"The Beaver Kid" is a documentary about Dick Griffiths (Groovin' Gary) and his Olivia fascination. The second piece, 'Beaver Kid 2' is a drama based on the documentary with Sean Penn playing the part of Dick Griffiths. The third piece,'The Orkly Kid' is yet another dramatic work based on the documentary, this time with Crispin Glover in the lead. Trent Harris has directed nine feature films and scores of documentaries and experimental pieces. To date he has been honored with retrospectives at: Raindance Film Festival (London), 92 Y Tribeca (New York), BUTT Film Festival (The Netherlands), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt… Read More

Beaverhead National Forest, MT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1942. Map [23 cm x 31 cm] on a single sheet [25.5 cm x 35 cm] printed in black, red, and green ink. Vertical fold at center - two horizontal folds. About very good. Inset map [7 cm x 7 cm] at the upper right corner showing the greater area. Nice map of this area of southern Montana and western Idaho with Dillon, Montana at the center. Map locates the area that encompasses the national forests; towns; main roads; mines; airstrips/landing fields; fire lookouts; ranger stations; trails; resorts; camp sites; and game preserves. Small printed notice at the left: "Don't be a Flipper - Prevent Forest Fires.

Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 2008. Second Edition. 356pp. Quarto [28 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. This work offers an in-depth look at breweries from Utah's past and present from one of the founders of Uinta Brewing Company and the former owner of the Bayou and the present owner of the Beerhive (Del loves beer). A fun and engaging history of beer making in Utah that offers detailed descriptions and histories of thirty-six different breweries.

Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1931. First Edition. 91pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over decorative paper boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in a matching slipcase. Both book and slipcase near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Uncommon bibliography that was produced in an edition of 160 copies and covers early printing in the Territory, with chapters on the first printings (white notes, First Epistle, Second Epistle); The Deseret News; A bibliography of 42 Territorial press items; a section of facsimile title pages and broadsides; a chapter on early periodicals. "In the record of the spread of printing throughout the United States, one of the conspicuous gaps has been the lack of adequate account of early printing in the State of Utah. While a fair amount of attention has been given to the history of the newspaper and commercial press in other western states, the work of the printers in the home of the Latter-day Saints has been quite overlooked, except for a brief… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition. 203pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 tan cloth over orange boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Abbey on the front free endsheet. In this collection of essays Abbey guides us "beyond the wall" of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico. Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a celebrated author, essayist, conservationist, noted pain-in-the-ass, and in many ways the father (or at the very least, uncle) of the modern environmental movements.

Los Angeles: Key Records, 1962. 33 1/3 Long-playing records [30 cm] in original printed cover and sleeve. Better than very good. "To the American economy and American destiny, agriculture is what anatomy and materia medica are to a physician. Its the foundation. Nobody knows more about that foundation and how the Marxist planhandlers have been manipulated it than Tom Anderson. The fact is, on this record, Tom will tell you some mighty strange cuttings and seedlings already planted and nourished by your tax dollars in such fertile bottom land as The White House and Our State Department." - from the rear cover.

[Philadelphia]: [Union League of Philadelphia], 1862. 4pp. Bifolium [23 cm x 29 cm] Very good. Splitting at center fold. Corners nicked. This short work uses Bible verse to advocate for Plural Marriage, in the vein of John Henry Hopkins' 'The Bible View of Slavery'. "The blessings vouchsafed to those who took themselves numerous consorts, and the lofty positions to which they arose show that in the eyes of God and man they were pure from sin and worthy of all honor." Flake/Draper 4816.

St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railway, 1940. Color print [30.5 cm x 23 cm] in nice, bright condition. Near fine. Winhold Reiss (1886-1953) was a painter, illustrator, and interior designer who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1913, where he taught art for a time at the Art Students' League. In 1919 he traveled to Montana to paint portraits of members of the Blackfeet nation. Reiss depicted his subjects as they were, without the romanticization that many of his fellow artists at the time were using to depict Native Americans. During the summers from 1927 to 1948, Reiss spent in Glacier National Park studying and drawing members of the Blackfeet, these trips were sponsored by the Great Northern Railway, who acquired the majority of these works, and used them in promotional material.

Franklin Library, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. 733pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Full tan leather with decorative gilt stamping. A.E.G. Near fine. This is Wallace Stegner's big book, that is a semi-autobiographical work about his childhood in the west. "The Big Rock Candy Mountain came to me in big lumpish nineteenth-century terms, and I just did it in chronologically, from beginning to end." - Wallace Stegner. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called 'The Dean of Western Writers'. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977, and through his writing program at Stanford University, influenced generations of writers (Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Larry McMurtry). Colberg A7.7.

Powell, WY: Lucier Studio, 1914. Panorama silver gelatin photograph [25 cm x 62 cm] / [10" x 24 1/2"] A few creases and splits. Strong contrasts. View of this thermal feature, which locals have dubbed "The world's largest hot spring." Albert George Lucier (1874-1962) was a photographer based out of Powell, Wyoming. He documented the building of the Cody Road and the settlement of northwest Wyoming in the early twentieth century.

[New York], 1879. 33pp. Octavo [23 cm] Salmon printed wrappers. Better than very good. Ink smudge on cover. Covers and contents are bright. George Reynolds (1842-1909) was a polygamist and church leader in Utah. In 1874, George Reynolds was chosen by both civil leaders and leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a test case for the constitutionality of the Moral Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862. Reynolds was convicted of bigamy the following year, and his conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1879. He was imprisoned briefly in the Nebraska State penitentiary before being transferred to the Utah Territorial penitentiary where he served out the remainder of his sentence of two years. He thus became the first of many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be imprisoned for practicing polygamy. Flake/Draper 6835.

Rochester, NY: The Eastman Company, 1891. Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [11.5 cm x 17.5 cm] on a black mount [12.5 cm x 18 cm] The Eastman Company backstamp. Nice condition. Bird's-eye view of Bingham looking down canyon. "Bingham is a little like the gambler. Crowded together in their gulch without bringing-up or ear-washing, the people of the camp have evolved into a community, though it took a long time and there were a lot of graves in the local Boot Hill before the transformation came about. Maybe the copper sulphide in the soil destroyed the germs of evil in those old rowdies as it destroyed the typhus germs in the garbage-laden creek. Or maybe the camp simply grew up. At any rate Bingham gets along better with the rest of the state now." - Wallace Stegner 'Mormon Country' p.268.