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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

Poultney, VT: Smith & Shute, 1823. First Edition. 187pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Rebound in full leather with a gilt stamped label on the backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns. Gentle sporadic foxing throughout. Better than very good. According to Grunder: "Except for the Bible, 'View of the Hebrews' is the most famous of all Mormon parallel works, partly because it was noticed before most other examples became known. Ethan Smith's book popularized Hebrew Indian-origin theories, then dramatized a need to carry the gospel of Native Americans whom Smith saw as part of the posterity of Israel." "It may never be proved that Joseph [Smith] saw 'View of the Hebrews' before writing the Book of Mormon, but the striking parallelisms between the two books hardly leave a case for mere coincidence." - Fawn Brodie. Mormon Parallels 398. Sabin 82538.

Glendale, M.T.: Rocky Mountain Art Gallery, 1879. CDV. Carte de visite. Albumen [9 cm x 6 cm] photograph on the original gilt and brown mount [10.5 x 6.5 cm] Brown and Rocky Mountain backstamp. Gentle rubbing to extremities of mount. Nice contrasts. Glendale was the home of the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company, dating back to 1872. In early records and newspapers, you will find reference to the 'Hecla Mining District,' the 'Trapper District,' and the 'Bryant Mining District,' all of which are one in the same. This district held four towns on the side of Lion Mountain: Trapper City, Lion City, Glendale and Hecla. Glendale was considered the most civilized of the four and boasted the Montana Brewery and a general merchandise store. The discoveries of the Hecla District would become one of the leading silver producing mines of the west. In 1875, a 40-ton smelter was built, producing nearly one million ounces of silver and thousands of tons of lead and copper annually. Unfortunately, the district was… Read More

[Raton, NM], 1899. 36 silver prints [9.5 cm x 12 cm] / [3.75" x 4.75"] on curved gray Kodak decorative mounts [14 cm x 17 cm] / [5.5" x 6.75"]. All 36 have manuscript identifications and description on the back in black ink. A few mounts show minor rubbing and discoloring at extremities one mount chipped at the head. Some images have gentle spotting and fading. - Our Home Raton New Mexico - New Store built for us in Raton 1898 - Out for a Drive, By reservoir on Chico Rico, New Mex. 1898 - Out for a Drive. Sugarite Canon 1898. - A pretty camp on mouth of South Fork Conejos River Colo. 1898 - Scene on Conejos River on mouth of South Fork Colorado. 1898 - Camp above Falls on Conejos River Colorado 1898 - Conejos River above Falls Colorado 1898 - Conejos Ri[ver] above Antonito from Bridge, 1897 - Our camp on shore of Lake, on Lake Fork of Conejos River. Colorado 1898. - Lake, on Lake Fork Conejos River Colo 1897. - Boat riding on Conejos Lakes. 1898 - A bit of tough road on Conejos River men holding… 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.

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1981. First Edition Thus. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light orange boards with the title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by Abbey on the front free endsheet: "for Jeanine - Edward Abbey - Boulder '82." This edition contains illustrations by Abbey, that only appear in the Peregrine Smith printing. Black and white images by Gibbs Smith. Abbey spent two consecutive summers in Arches National Monument (now National Park) as a seasonal ranger and came back later for a third summer. He kept journals of his summers in Arches and used those as well as journals and notes from other experiences in the canyon country to write this celebrated work. Ford 190b.

[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

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

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840. First Edition, mixed State. 483pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Printed tan cloth that has been tastefully rebacked in cloth to match. Rear panel prints a list of 184 titles in the 'Harper Family Library.' Very good. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. Sporadic foxing throughout. dotted i in copyright notice. Broken type on p.9. If not the most widely read book on California, this title certainly would rank high on any list. Dana sailed up and down the California coast in 1835 and 1836. This work offers an excellent account of the author's adventures and is widely regarded as one of the great California books and is noted for being very readable. Cowan II p.62. Eberstadt 110:24. Graff 998. Howes D49. Reese, Best of the West 74. Sabin 18448. Streeter Sale 2493. Zamorano Eighty: 26.