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PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES

By: Crockwell. James H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Salt Lake Cit, James H. Crockwell: 1900

Seller ID: k200225h

Condition: Good

12mo, violet wraps tied with red ribbon. 40pp + photographs + 4p ads, Undated but circa 1900. "A true and correct statement of the birth, life and death of President Brigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And brief biographies of his twenty six wives and names and number of children born to them". Silver titles. B/W photographs. Interior of text Is clean and tight. Covers faded at extremities, more so on the back; 1.5” closed tear at front binding edge.
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Texas Argonauts Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush

By: Dillon, Richard H.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: The Book Club of California: 2987

Seller ID: sbcc1907221f

Condition: New

1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copies. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. Series: The Book Club of California Publication, No. 186. Quarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed paper spine label, maps in end-leaves, plain white paper dust-jacket. Isaac Duval (1824-1902) was an American adventurer and businessman prior to becoming a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a young man, he traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas, wh...
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AN ESSAY. ON A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC WEST, 1510- 1906 BY ROBERT E. COWAN. With an Original Leaf from the Club's 1914 First Edition.

By: Gary E. Kurutz

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Book Club of California: 1993

Seller ID: vl190723a

Condition: Fine

1st ed. thus, small 4to, 57 pp. One of 390 copies with a tipped in original leaf from the 1914 First Edition of Cowan's work. The Book Club of California, publication 201. Gray cloth boards and paper cover, printed title label on front cover. Pristine copy; gray cloth backed boards with black titles in a fine mylar jacket. This copy inscribed by Kurutz on the front end paper. Prospectus laid in.
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Edward Vischer's Drawings of the California Missions, 1861-1878. With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright.

By: Jeanne Van Nostrand

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Book Club of California: 1982

Seller ID: sbcc190721e

Condition: New

Publications of the Book Club of California, No. 172. Limited to 600 copies, produced by the Arion Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. Oblong 4to. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. 44, 44 plates, [2] pp. Gilt-stamped brown cloth, plain paper dust-jacket; "Vischer is credited The captions to the plates are excerpted from Vischer's own writings. Included in the Rounce & Coffin Club's Exhibition of Western Books. Original prospectus laid in. Condition: A new copy; absolutely pristine but with a couple of small nicks to the publisher’s wrapper; light wear to the prospectus.
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Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated / Together with a Geographical and Historical Description of Utah. A History of the Latter-Day Saints' Emigration from Europe

By: Piercy, Frederick

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, [Westernlore Press]: 1959

Seller ID: k1210115k

Binding: Black pebbled cloth

Condition: Very Good

[Westernlore Press], [Los Angeles], 1959. Facsimile edition. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). 120pp. Blind-stamped Black pebbled cloth with gilt title on front board and backstrip. Folding map frontispiece. "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley" is one of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration. This original 1855 edition was produced by a young convert, Frederick Piercy, and Samuel Richards, who was then the president of the Liverpool Mission president. They envisioned a travel guide for English converts who wanted to make the trek to the Salt Lake Valley. Piercy was...
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Category: Western Americana

PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES

Texas Argonauts Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush

AN ESSAY. ON A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC WEST, 1510- 1906 BY ROBERT E. COWAN. With an Original Leaf from the Club's 1914 First Edition.

Edward Vischer's Drawings of the California Missions, 1861-1878. With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright.

Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated / Together with a Geographical and Historical Description of Utah. A History of the Latter-Day Saints' Emigration from Europe