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[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

Glendale - Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2012. First Editions. 15 volumes in 16 books. complete. 1 - Nye, Elwood F. 'Marching with Custer.' 51pp. Oblong octavo [24 cm x 31 cm] 1/2 blue cloth over white boards. Better than very good. Prospectus laid in. "This work, the first in this highly collectable series, was a distinct departure in format and design for the company. A handsome publication, it contains the very rare work on this important facet of the Little Big Horn story." - Clark & Brunet 192. Luther 180. 2 - McClernand, Edward J. 'With the Indian and the Buffalo in Montana, 1870-1878.' 176pp. Octavo [26 cm] Gray cloth. Near fine. Prospectus laid in. "McClernand's narrative appeared first in the Cavalry Journal, 1926-27, and now rare in this edition." - Clark & Brunet 176. Luther 54. 3 - Overfield, Lloyd J. II. 'The Little Big Horn, 1876.' 203pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Gray cloth. Near fine. Prospectus laid in. "An unabridged compilation of twenty-six documents of prime importance to students… Read More

Ogden and Salt Lake City: The Utah Historical Records Survey, 1941. 16 volumes. Quartos [27 cm] Printed wrappers. Mimeographed contents. All are very good or better. - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 23. Tooele County (Tooele City) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 5. Daggett County (Manila City) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 29. Weber County (Ogden) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 4. Carbon County (Price) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 25. Utah County (Provo) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 24. Uintah County (Vernal) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 8. Emery County (Castle Dale) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 2. Box Elder County (Brigham City) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 26. Wasatch County (Heber City) - Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 20. Sanpete County (Manti) - Origins of Utah Place Names [2nd edition] - Origins of Utah Place… Read More

New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. First Edition. 198pp. Duodecimo [17.5] Beveled brown boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. A jumping frog is gilt stamped on the front board and blind stamped on the rear board. Contemporary inscription on the tipped in front free endsheet with advertisement on the verso. Discreetly rebacked with the original backstrip laid over. First edition with unbroken type on pages 21, 61 and 198 and the inserted advertisement at the front. Perhaps no short sketch of Twain's so quickly won wide popularity as did 'The Jumping Frog.' Calaveras County, California, is known to thousands who have never seen the Golden State simply because of this gem of humor. This little volume, the author's first published book, came into being under the sponsorship of Charles Henry Webb - who also edited it under his pseudonym of 'John Paul.' To accompany 'The Jumping Frog' he chose twenty-six other sketches. Zamorano Eighty: 17. Wheat Books 43. Cowan p.49. BAL 3310.

Mexico City: Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1786. 344pp. Small quarto [20 cm] Full period leather with gilt stamped bands, author, and partial title on the backstrip. Very good. Gentle overall wear. p. 39/40 damaged at the fore-edge affecting some text - facsimile of 39/40 laid in after. Folding-map in facsimile and laid in at the rear. Frontis portrait of Serra present. This is the first book on the founder of the California Mission System, Junipero Serra, by his companion, Francisco Palou, and the most important book on early California. Zamorano Eighty:59 Howes P56. Cowan p. 172. Sabin 58392. Graff 3179. Best of the West 15. Wheat 208.

Minneapolis, MN: Gravure Engraving Company, 1934. 10 Photogravures [31.5 cm x 21 cm] / [12.5" x 8"] on cream colored stock [45.5 cm x 35.5 cm] / [18" x 14"] All in nice condition. Included are two different illustrated prospecti. - 'The Pottery Maker: Hopi' - 'The Wood Gatherer: Hopi' - 'Shepherd of the Hills: Navaho' - 'Every Wind: Ojibwa' - The Hunters: Ojibwa' - 'Moose Call: Ojibwa' - 'The Wooing: Ojibwa' - 'Meditation: Piegan' - 'The Pass Finders: Piegan' - 'Up the Cutbank: Piegan'. Roland W. Reed (1864-1934) was a photographer working in the American west, who was largely self-funded in his effort to document the vanishing indigenous peoples he encountered and sought out. Many of his images were staged to offer romanticized depictions of these people as he wanted to see them. Reed lived with and photographed the Ojibwe in Minnesota; the Blackfeet, Piegan, Flathead, Cheyenne, and Blood in northern Montana and southern Canada; and the Navajo and Hopi in Arizona. He had begun work on the… Read More

[Salt Lake City, 1909. 45 silver gelatin photographs. [10 cm x 15 cm] / [4" x 6"] Attached to lined index cards [13 cm x 20 cm] / [5" x 8"] that have typed identifications and notations. Views have strong contrasts. Nice views of Betatakin that is located in northern Arizona and is now part of Navajo National Monument. Betatakin is one of the three great pre-historic cliff dwellings that are now part of Navajo National Monument in northern Arizona; the other two are the nearby Keet Seel and Inscription House. The House Built on a Ledge occupies an enormous, south-facing alcove, 452 feet high and 370 feet across with its own freshwater spring. Betatakin was built about 1260-1270 A.D. with about 120 separate rooms. Spectacular cliff-dwelling that is, Betatakin was nevertheless short-lived and was abandoned ca. 1300 A.D., a time when many other occupation sites through much of the Southwest were also abandoned. Dr. Byron Cummings (1860-1954) was a professor of Latin and English at the University of… Read More

New York: Julius Bien, 1870. First Edition. 150pp. Quarto [31 cm] Original 3/4 green Moroccan over green pebbled boards with the title, bands and floral borders gilt stamped on the backstrip. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. AEG. Thirty large format mounted albumen photographs [15 cm x 20 cm] / [8" x 6"] with printed captions follow the text. Better than very good. Gentle rubbing to extremities of boards. A few smudges to the mounts with subtle rolling. Hayden was the director of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories from 1868 to 1883. He supervised much of the initial surveying of the Rocky Mountain West during these years. This work looks at the geology along the line of the recently completed Union Pacific railroad using thirty photographs by A.J. Russell to illustrate Hayden's text. The photographs were taken in Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California, and according to Hayden, they were executed by Russell over a two-year period. This is one the most interesting… Read More

[San Francisco]: Printed at the San Francisco Herald Office, 1855. First English Language Edition. 105pp. Octavo [22 cm] Yellow printed wrappers. Better than very good. Gentle overall wear with minor sporadic foxing to the textblock. Exceedingly rare in original wrappers. First edition in English of the first important book printed in California. Jose Figueroa had been governor of Alta California since 1827. In September, 1834, Hijars and Padres arrived in Monterey as directors of a Mexican colonization project; they expected to take over the mission lands which had been secularized by the Mexican Government in 1833, as well as to assume the governorship and other offices. Figueroa refused to comply with their demands and composed his 'Manifesto a la republica Mejicana' to recount his side of the dispute and explain his own plans for secularization and colonization. Even as Zamorano was printing the book, Figueroa died in September, 1835. Inscribed on the dedication page in pencil: "To Saml. H.… Read More

Provo, UT, 1983. Year 1, Number 1 - Year 2, Number 7 [Vol.1, No. 1 - Vol.1, No, 2]. 29 issues. Newspaper [38 cm x 29 cm] / [15" x 11.5"] most issues 12 to 16 pages. All issues in very good condition, some with subscription labels. Complete run of the groundbreaking BYU student newspaper, that includes the 'Best of Issue' and the two printed copies of the (watered down) follow-up, University Post. Ron Priddis and Anthony Schmitt, both graduate students at Brigham Young University, founded the Seventh East Press to give an 'alternative voice' to BYU faculty and students. Maxine Hanks and Gary Bergera were co-founding staff members, with Hanks writing the 'Thrills' arts and entertainment feature and Bergera writing the 'Grey Matters' column on theological issues. In an attempt to show both sides of issues, the paper became controversial and was eventually banned from being sold on the Brigham Young University campus, after an interview with Sterling McMurrin (Year 2, Issue 4) where he stated that he did… Read More

Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1935. First Edition. 23pp. Octavo [25 cm] Gray printed wrappers. Near fine. Cancelled check signed by Wallace Stegner laid in. Stegner's rare first printed is a condensed version of his thesis, on the noted geologist, Clarence E. Dutton (1841-1912). This copy was acquired directly from the Stegner family. 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 A1. "Considering the most obscure of the men who made up the first group of the United States Geological Survey, Wallace E. Stegner's little brochure, just brought out by the University of Utah Press, 'Clarence Edward Dutton: An Appraisal,' gives an illumination of his… Read More

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition, Early State. 366pp. Octavo [22 cm] Original green cloth with pictorial stamping to front board and backstrip. Near fine. Profusely illustrated throughout by E.W. Kemble. Signed card laid in. Beautiful copy of this timeless work of a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi River. The great American novel. "all American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....there was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." - Ernest Hemingway. BAL 3415.

Claremont, NH, 1880. First Edition. 239pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] 3/4 brown morocco over matching cloth boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Better than very good. Faint and gentle rubbing to a few places at the extremities. This skecth contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide, recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845, and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849, and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which, as Ide died in 1852, must have been written within a few years of the event. This work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman, and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. William Ide was leader of the Bear Flag movement of Sonoma, and has been referred to as the 'President' of California. Cowan II p.118. Eberstadt 105: 136. Graff 2059. Howes I4. Mintz 250.… Read More

[Twin Lakes, NM], 1990. 14 original ink and watercolor illustrations [25 cm x 20 cm] / [10" x 8"] each signed at the lower right corner. All are bright. This collection of original illustrations were created by Navajo/Dine artist, Ernest Franklin, for the Ernest Bulow authored work on Navajo Taboos. - 'Snakes are closely related to lightning' (p.22) - 'It's not a good idea to sleep whil herding sheep' (p.62) - 'Blame dead spiders on somebody else' (p.83) - 'Earmarking a horse will make it stupid' (p.102) - 'Never cut off a horse's tail' (p.104) - [Man's Best Friend] (p.108) - 'Written symbols, like words, have power to cause harm' (p.119) - [Babies] (p.146) - 'Rude visitors often have bad luck' (p.154) - 'Running around your hogan is just asking for trouble' (p.157) - 'Eating in bed is frowned on' (p.166) - 'The successful hunter doesn't sleep with his wife' (p.188) - 'Never look into an empty sweat lodge' (p.200) - 'Evil spirits make unloaded guns dangerous' (p.205) Ernest Franklin (1942-2010) was… Read More

Hildburghausen, GER: Stich, Druck und Verlag der Geographischen Anstalt des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1850. Map [29 cm x 35.5 cm] / [11" x 14"] on a single sheet [35 cm x 43 cm] / [13.5" x 17"] Hand tinted borders to Mexican states. A few short closed tears at the head in the margin (does not effect map). Rare map, that locates the shortly lived 'State of Deseret' which Brigham Young proposed in the spring of 1849. This provisional state was never recognized by the United States government, but was still located by a handful of European map makers, who wanted to provide in their mind, the most accurate map and to put it in the hands of the public at large, but specifically those who wanted to take to the Mormon, Oregon & California trails and settle in the then largely uninhabited western U.S. The dream of the State of Deseret ended in the fall of 1850, with the establishment of the Territory of Utah. Salt Lake City is located at its present location and named 'Mormonfort. Not in Moffat. Not in Wheat.