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WILD RIDES AND WILDFLOWERS: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, (2014). First edition - Two professors set out to ride the Great Western Trail on Mt Timpanogos in Utah on their mountain bikes in every season, noting the changes from month to month and year to year, but this book becomes much more than a simple look at wildflowers. 355 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69001More details Price: $17.50 -
DEAD DRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tenth mystery featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen. 306 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-342527.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 46308More details Price: $16.00 -
FAULT LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen, set in Salt Lake City on the eve of the Olympics. INSCRIBED on the title page "To - - with thanks." Author's note. 307 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-253508.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket. (name on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 56185More details Price: $30.00 -
FAULT LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen, set in Salt Lake City on the eve of the Olympics. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 307 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-253508.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77806More details Price: $35.00 -
BONE HUNTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen, set at a paleontology conference in Utah. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203810.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61072More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WILD BUNCH AT ROBBER'S ROOST.
Edition: First thus (Completely revised and certain new material added by the author.)
New York: Abelard-Schuman, (1971.). Hardcover - The story of the outlaws who found sanctuary in the high desert canyon county of southeastern Utah - especially Butch Cassidy and his gang. Illustrated with many photographs, map endpapers. Index. 224 pp.
Condition: Near fine in cream cloth with green lettering, lacking the dust jacket.
Book ID: 48850More details Price: $14.00 -
HIGH WEST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping to upper edge of dj spine, slight sunning to spine.)
Book ID: 38961More details Price: $20.00 -
CONSIDER THIS HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young woman who returns with her 6 year old son to the small town in Utah where she grew up, and to the web of family friction and strict Mormon customs. Long blurb on cover from Tony Kushner, who called this a "wonderful exciting novel... the writing is fierce, funny, smart, observant, and at times very sexy." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671798731.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26689More details Price: $18.00 -
CONSIDER THIS HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young woman who returns with her 6 year old son to the small town in Utah where she grew up, and to the web of family friction and strict Mormon customs. Long blurb on cover from Tony Kushner, who called this a "wonderful exciting novel... the writing is fierce, funny, smart, observant, and at times very sexy." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671798731.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's card laid in.
Book ID: 36482More details Price: $25.00 -
UNCLE SAM AT HOME.
Edition: Facsimile Reprint.
New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1888. Illustrated with small drawings throughout. Commentary on the character of Americans from family life and bonnets to criminals, to Anglomaniacs, and relaxation. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054467.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering.
Book ID: 57392More details Price: $25.00 -
THE KING'S ENGLISH: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, (2005). First edition - A history of a small independent bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah, and much more. Includes reflections on books, and bookselling, book lists, accounts of author events. Illustrated with photographs. 302 pp. ISBN: 1423601246.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 61223More details Price: $15.00 -
THE KING'S ENGLISH: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A history of a small independent bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah, and much more. Includes reflections on books, and bookselling, book lists, accounts of author events. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 1423601246.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 63118More details Price: $24.50 -
PRISONER FOR POLYGAMY: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 75897More details Price: $21.50 -
RED ROCK EDEN: Story of Fruita, One of Mormon Country's Most Isolated Settlements.
Torrey, UT: Capitol Reef Natural History Association, (1986). "The little community called Fruita, never more than ten families, found itself deep inside Capitol Reef National Monument after a Presidential proclamation in 1937." Illustrated throughout with photographs, map. A title in the Man in the Waterpocket Fold Series. 63 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated burgundy stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 69831More details Price: $10.00 -
DEATH TRAIN TO BOSTON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th Fremont Jones historical mystery, this one involving an undercover assignment on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and life in early 20th century Utah among the Mormons. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-385-48609X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59683More details Price: $30.00 -
AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHER: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1963.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.)
Book ID: 39803More details Price: $30.00 -
THE NATURAL WEST: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2001). First edition - A book which asserts that "Western Environmental history cannot be explained by examining place, culture, or policy alone, but should be understood within the context a universal human nature." Photographs and illustrations throughout book. Notes , bibliography, 272 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed tan wrappers.
Book ID: 59630More details Price: $18.50 -
TUMBLEWORDS: Writers Reading the West.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1995). First edition - Collects works by 72 western writers - featuring poets, novelists, short-story writers and essayists from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming (the selections are arranged by state) Among the authors are Kim Barnes, William Johnson, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jonathan Penner, Dennis Hickman and many others, Foreword by Donald Meyer and an introduction by the editor, William L. Fox. Map, notes on contributors, index of authors and titles. A title in the Western Literature Series.xxv, 377 pp.. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-874172713.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67213More details Price: $24.50 -
FAMILY ATTRACTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories, with praise from such writers as Ivan Doig and Alice Adams. Several of the stories are set in Mormon Utah, where the author was born and raised. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-670-82108X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2828More details Price: $17.50 -
FAMILY ATTRACTIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, a collection of short stories, with praise from such writers as Ivan Doig and Alice Adams. Several of the stories are set in Mormon Utah, where the author was born and raised. INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- best wishes" 227 pp. ISBN: 0-670-82108X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55071More details Price: $28.50 -
RATTLESNAKES AND WILD HORSES and Other Campfire Tales.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
River Road Press , (1993). SIGNED first edition - Stories of early Utah history, of adventure, hiking and lost mines, set mostly in Utah around the head of Montezuma Canyon, where his family had their ranch. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Happy Hiking." xi, 111 pp. ISBN: 0-944609198.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77975More details Price: $15.00 -
BRIGHAM'S DAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A historical thriller, based on the events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The author's first novel, this introduces attorney Brigham Bybee. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33441.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48750More details Price: $15.00 -
ONE TIME, I SAW MORNING COME HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A poignantly moving story of HuffakerÕs parents, a young couple growing up in a small Utah town. A suprisingly uncommon title by this very popular Western writer.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (dj- edge wear)
Book ID: 13188More details Price: $75.00 -
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 -
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 -
CALLED HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon detective, Moroni Traveler, who is asked to investigate the apparent suicide of a young wife.. Set in Salt Lake City, Utah. As usual, the church elders don't want Moroni anywhere near the case. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-312-093020.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72915More details Price: $16.50 -
PILLAR OF FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon detective, Moroni Traveler. His investigation of a faith healer takes him to the desolate southwestern corner of Utah, commonly known as cult country. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-312-135882.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72916More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SPOKEN WORD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth in this series of offbeat mysteries featuring ex-Mormon detective, Moroni Traveler, set in Salt Lake City and Utah. Laid in is a photocopy of a review which calls this "another strong entry in a remarkable series." 229 pp. ISBN: 0-312-078412.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72917More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
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