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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 -
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 -
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 -
FAULT LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen, set in Salt Lake City on the eve of the Olympics. Author's note. 307 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-253508.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84175More details Price: $17.50 -
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 -
SHOUTING AT THE SKY: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent in the desert wildlands of Utah with one of the best of the wilderness programs for teenagers, a book which gives an insight into how young lives can go terribly wrong and a story of individuals - counselors and participants alike, grown-ups and youths - sharing the struggle to find themselves. SIGNED on the half title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-312200080.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (slightly overopened after half title page)
Book ID: 84163More 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: $18.50 -
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: $30.00 -
THE CHINCHILLA FARM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1989) DJ. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, preceded by a highly praised collection of short stories. A woman flees a failed marriage and the rigid Morman lifestyle for Los Angeles. Cover praise from Ursula Le Guin who commented "Under the plain honesty and generosity of Judith Freeman's writing is a delicate and impressive artistic strength. . . a fascinating story, but I find it lingers in my mind as a true journey through the desert of the West and of the soul." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-393027228.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (gift inscription on front endpaper).
Book ID: 86981More details Price: $18.00 -
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: $16.50 -
PLAIN SONGS: Stories and Poems by Carleton Writers.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
[Northfield, MN;] Carleton College, 1990. SIGNED first edition - Collects work by nine writers, all of whom teach at Carleton, but who explore their worlds in very different ways, in poetry, fiction, essays and dramatic monologues. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Wayne Carver, one of the contributors. Other contributors include Clare Rossini, Robert Tisdale, Mary Moore Easter, Gregory Blake Smith and others. Notes on contributors. 141 pp. ISBN: 0-961391154.
Condition: Near fine in yellow illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83177More details Price: $25.00 -
ON DESERT TRAILS: Today and Yesterday.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Desert Classic by the founder and former publisher of Desert Magazine. The titles of the chapters just give a hint to the information included in this book - from an old iron boat on the Colorado to gold seekers with burros, Scotty and his castle in Death Valley, the saga of a nomad artist - Edward Ruess - who left Escalante in 1934, and much more. Illustrated with photographs, maps by Norton Allen and drawings by Don Louis Perceval. Index. 357 pp.
Condition: Fine in beige boards with gilt lettering on the spine, embossed illustraion on front cover, in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83172More details Price: $40.00 -
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 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 -
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