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THE HOSANNA SHOUT
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon detective, Moroni Traveler. Set in Salt Lake City and a dying small Utah copper- mining town. Dustjacket praise from fellow Utah writer Wallace Stegner: "He's got the touch.". ISBN: 0-312-114184.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72914More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GREAT REMINDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon and ex-pro football player detective, Moroni Traveler. Set in Salt Lake City and Utah, this finds him investigating the disappearance of a German prisoner-of-war fifty years earlier. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312-093020.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72665More details Price: $17.50 -
GONE TO GLORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon and ex-pro football player detective, Moroni Traveler. Set in Salt Lake City and Utah, and demonstrating that The Traveler still isn't following his father's advice "Never stick your nose in Church business." 231 pp. ISBN: 0-312-04321x.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to bottom edge of dj).
Book ID: 71984More details Price: $18.00 -
BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing the ex-Mormon and ex-pro football player detective, Moroni Traveler. Set in Salt Lake City.185 pp. ISBN: 0-396-09337x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71983More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ANGEL'S SHARE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon and ex-pro football player detective, Moroni Traveler. Set in Salt Lake City. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-312-028628.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71982More details Price: $25.00 -
DEAD FOLKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth hard-boiled crime novel featuring Detroit police detective Fang Mulheisen, but set in Salt Lake City. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6384.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 59521More details Price: $27.50 -
DEAD FOLKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth hard-boiled crime novel featuring Detroit police detective Fang Mulheisen, but set in Salt Lake City. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6384.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 64652More details Price: $18.50 -
MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE: a Search for Perspective.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1970. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Monograph on the 1857 massacre in Mountain Meadows, Utah when 125 men, women and children were killed. Illustrated with photographs. Number 117 of a limited individually numbered and SIGNED edition of 250 copies. The Great Western Series, No. 8. 26 pp.
Condition: Fine in burnt umber boards with black lettering.
Book ID: 76769More details Price: $24.50 -
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN: A Story of Violent Faith.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - "On July 24, 1984, a woman and her infant daughter were murdered by two brothers who believed they were ordered to kill by God. The roots of their crime lie deep in the history of an American religion practiced by millions." A look into the world of Mormon fundamentalists, who believe that the Mormon Church went astray when it renounced polygamy. Basis for the television series of the same name. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. xxiii, 372 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-385509510.
Condition: Good in a very good dust jacket (lower edge of rear cover of book bent, but otherwise clean and tight).
Book ID: 64187More details Price: $20.00 -
TOUCHSTONES: Letters Between Two Women, 1953-1964.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of two life long friends - who both graduated from the University of Utah in 1953 - though their letters, edited and with additional material by Patricia Frazier Lamb. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0149426.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some chipping and edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 58414More details Price: $17.50 -
MY TOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Western States Book Award in Poetry - the judges commented that "via low humor and tall tales, Lee searches for the soul of a small town where everybody knows if you flounder or fail." SIGNED on the title page. 137 pp. ISBN: 1-55659-0741.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68313More details Price: $25.00 -
MY TOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. First edition - Winner of the Western States Book Award in Poetry - the judges commented that "via low humor and tall tales, Lee searches for the soul of a small town where everybody knows if you flounder or fail." 137 pp. ISBN: 1-55659-0741.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9779More details Price: $15.00 -
TEN OF SWORDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Utah private eye Jason Coulter, a former homicide detective. Set in Salt Lake City. The author is himself a former police officer now living in a ski resort town in Utah. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-31205386X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 66648More details Price: $15.00 -
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAN WEST: Community Histories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1998). First edition - Articles by Dino Cinel, David M. Emmons, Dean L. May and others on several different types of immigrant communities: Southestern Indians, Spanish Missions; Swedish Settlement of Dakota; English Mormon Migration to Alpine, Utah; Italians in San Francisco; Irish Miners in Montana; Women of Block, Kansas 1868-1940; Czech Farmers & Mexican Laborers in South Texas 1880-1930 and more. Introduction by Luebke. Notes, select bibliography, index. xix, 198 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-19920.
Condition: Very good in printed wrappers (a few corners dog-eared)
Book ID: 58424More details Price: $15.00 -
WATCH FOR THE MORNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in Utah in the second half of the nineteen century, one which tells the story of two indomitable women - Kate, born in Liverpool, who becomes the wife of a Morman missionary - and her daughter Mary Ann. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-684-145561.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tear to upper edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 84376More details Price: $17.50 -
FALLING STAR.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Pocket Books, (1987). First edition - A romantic historical novel set in the Wyoming territory. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-67160290X.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (remainder mark).
Book ID: 88293More details Price: $14.50 -
DAY FOR NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which "illuminates how disparate far-flung people can be connected." 323 pp. ISBN: 9780316077569.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60844More details Price: $20.00 -
THIS IS THE PLACE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "Sixty-four-feet tall and made of metal, the neon giant Wendover Will stands in front of the Stateline casino in Wendover, Nevada, facing east. The sign under him reads This Is the Place. Over a hundred miles away in Utah, across the salt flats, stands the statue of Brigham Young, atop his monument, also proclaiming This Is the Place. In this sinister, heartbreaking story, an aged and lonely blackjack dealer who lives in Wendover becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old Mormon girl from Bountiful, Utah." The author's first novel, published as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. .
Book ID: 60536More details Price: $27.50 -
THIS IS THE PLACE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "Sixty-four-feet tall and made of metal, the neon giant Wendover Will stands in front of the Stateline casino in Wendover, Nevada, facing east. The sign under him reads This Is the Place. Over a hundred miles away in Utah, across the salt flats, stands the statue of Brigham Young, atop his monument, also proclaiming This Is the Place. In this sinister, heartbreaking story, an aged and lonely blackjack dealer who lives in Wendover becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old Mormon girl from Bountiful, Utah." The author's first novel, SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-385-485980.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 60535More details Price: $27.50 -
THE LAST RUSTLER: The Autobiography of Lee Sage.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in rust-colored cloth with orange and black lettering and decorations, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85960More details Price: $45.00 -
"WHERE GOD PUT THE WEST": Movie Making in the Desert: A Moab-Monument Valley Movie History.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Moab, UT: Four Corners Publications, (1994). First edition - Large format trade paperback, illustrated on every page with photographs and vintage movie stills. Map inside front cover, lists of films, tables, bibliography. viii, 184 pp. ISBN: 0-9441230203.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88440More details Price: $21.50 -
WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS. Living and Writing in the West.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Wings, (c 1992.) dj. Hardcover - Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-517-124084.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 44132More details Price: $15.00 -
WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS. Living and Writing in the West.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (1993.). Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0174028.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 32549More details Price: $11.50 -
WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS. Living and Writing in the West.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A wonderful collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-679-410740.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (corners very slightly bumped, light edgewear to dj, but otherwise clean and tight.)
Book ID: 31101More details Price: $18.00 -
WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS. Living and Writing in the West.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp. ISBN: 0-679-410740.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (remainder dot, crease in margin of one page, otherwise tight and clean, short tear to upper edge of dj..)
Book ID: 48790More details Price: $20.00 -
WHERE THE BLUEBIRD SINGS TO THE LEMONADE SPRINGS. Living and Writing in the West.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Random House, 1992.). Collection of essays, including stories of his youth in the West, writings about the environment and essays on other writers .227 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers..
Book ID: 39812More details Price: $9.00 -
NECESSARY FRAUD: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59142More details Price: $35.00 -
MISS EMILY MARTINE and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Boston: Four Seas / Branden Publishing Co, (1989). SIGNED first edition - The author's fiction debut, a collection of short stories, several featuring the title character and others with occult themes. INSCRIBED on the title page. Utah Arts Council Publication Winnr. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-828319286.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover).
Book ID: 85868More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MORMON ESTABLISHMENT.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Described as 'a friendly, yet frank and critical examination' of the Mormons - or, to use their preferred name - the Latter-Day Saints - as they stand today. Includes chapters devoted to the Mormon doctrine on the inferiority of Negroes and also on polygamy, once a central doctrine of the church, now officially outlawed, yet still practiced. the history of the Mormons in the US is inextricably linked with the history of the westward movement. Illustrated, index. 343 pp.
Condition: Very good in good dust jacket (chip on back cover of dj, other edgewear.)
Book ID: 30890More details Price: $12.50 -
DAREDEVILS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84898More details Price: $18.50
