SALT DESERT TRAILS by KELLY, CHARLES - 1930: A HISTORY OF THE HASTINGS CUTOFF

Salt Lake City. : Western Epics. , 1969. Red cloth gold titles, map endpapers. . Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a cup ring to the back panel and a little soiling to the spine. . 23.5x15.5 cm. . “A history of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California”. weight: 1.2 lb. 10 pages of illustrations.

Western Printing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Good. . Buckram binding cover shows minor wear and rubbing. A bit of minor writing and scribbles in the prelims, pages show a bit of minor annotation.

Salt Lake City, UT: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 178 pages, plus index. Covers show light scuffs. Small Booksellers stick at lower edge of bottom paste down. Volume remains tight and is otherwise very clean and intact.

Salt Lake City:: Western Printing,, 1930.. First edition.. publisher's pebbled cloth.. Touch of wear to head of spine; but a very nice copy.. 8vo,. Howes K-59.

Western Printing Co., January 1930. Hardcover. Good - Cash. Signed by author with inscription 'To My Friend Bill' on first free end page. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Rubbing to edges. Cloth showing through on corners and edges of spine. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine ; nearly as new but with two small circular areas of mild discoloration to bottom edge of textblock not affecting marginsPlease see photos. No jacket.. Quarto in dark green blind-stamped 'pebbled' and illus boards; 5 preliminary leaves, [15]-178, [3] pages illustrations, portraits, facsimile 24 cm. Maps on lining-papers; bibliographical references. An impressively crisp copy. / Pioneers -- Utah. Trails -- West (U.S.) Pionniers -- Utah. Discoveries in geography. Pioneers. Trails. Named Person: Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870. Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870. Great Salt Lake (Utah) United States -- Discovery and exploration. Salé, Grand lac (Utah) United States. West United States. Utah. Utah -- Great Salt Lake.

Western Epics, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION; #43 OF 128 COPIES; SIGNED BY AUTHOR!

1930. KELLY, Charles. Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California. Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. 1st ed. Illus., map endpapers. 178,[3, index]pp. Orig. flexible pictorial cloth. Near fine. Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper, "To my good friends Gus and Alice from Charles Kelly, Christmas 1930."HOWES K59.

Western Printing Company, 1930. Very Good. Kelly, Charles. Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California. Salt Lake City, UT: Western Printing Company, 1930. 1st edition. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Inscribed by author to an unknown person, name carefully removed, with tipped in photo of author on second page.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Leatherette. Very Good +. A very-good+ /near fine, signed, first edition Author's signature dated 1930 on first blank leaf. Green pictorial limp leatherette cover with green and gilt stamping of a pioneer wagon, and author's name embossed at foot of cover. Minor shelfwear at corners, head and tail of spine, and along spine edges where the book has ben opened and read. Western map endpapers. Pages show only the mildest toning. Binding is sturdy and sound. No tears, no soiling. Charles Kelly's first book, interesting for California and American history and the opening of the West, including the Donner Party tragedy. 2 previous owner's signatures on title page. The previous owner's signature is CF Hartmeyer, "a grandson of the last member of the Donner party to be rescued." (p 145) 178 pp. plus index. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall. [Howes K59, Flake-Draper 4565, Paher K1020].

Trumansburg, NY: Out of Step Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Numbered Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. The author's non-linear poem about the billeting of soldiers in civilian homes in wartime. Copy 89 of a limited edition of 250. Folded into the form of a letter, the work was letterpress printed in wraps of handmade "combat paper" made from military uniforms. The author says: "Some time ago-maybe a year, maybe two? I had a conversation with some of my Combat Paper brothers (well, the kids call them their combat paper uncles, so it follows…) that led to me writing the poem "Quartering." Which was informed by them, of course, and by all the rooms I'm in, and by imagining what is really required of all the caregivers I love. It's a thought experiment: if we tore down the barracks at military hospitals and offered incentives for Americans in the surrounding neighborhoods to quarter injured service members, what would the honest instructions… Read More

Pelican, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Bishop, Randy : Kentucky's Civil War Battlefields: A Guide to Their History and Preservation. Gretna (LA) : Pelican Publishing, 2012. Size is royal octavo (8vo), 9.25"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth, silver lettering imprinted to spine. Glossy color dj features John Paul Strain's 'Raid on the L&N'. 368 numbered pp; maps, photos, illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: light wear to dj, no tears or chips; binding square and tight, no notes or highlighting. A fine copy to carry with you on your Kentucky excursions. We personally inspect every book we offer.

NY: Harper & Row, 1984. Signed by one of the authors on fep: To Jack, Best Wishes, William M. Wiecek. Price clipped dj in new mylar, overall minimal edge wear, bottom spine edge w/two small chips. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square, page edges w/just a hint of dust soiling. Navy blue boards, silver lettering on spine, blind stamped publisher logo on cover. The authors cover the development of the atom bomb, what Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and their advisers thought about its use, Truman's attitude of it being "just another piece of artillery"; the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission and the escalation of the arms race. Other chapters cover "atoms for peace", the policies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, the arms limitations agreements and the history of arms negotiations. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All… Read More

Fort McNair, Washington, DC: National War College, 2009. Yearbook of the National War College Class of 2009. Very Good. Spine is square and tight. Interior is pristine. Mild foxing to top closed edge. Not from a library. 4to. 200 pages.

Kobenhavn: Christian F. Romer's Forlag Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 16 continuous-fold pages of col. illustrations of Danish uniforms and badges, ca. 1900. The covers have separated, but both they and the contents are in excellent condition. Bookplate of a former owner on the (blank) front endpaper, otherwise an excellent copy of a very scarce publication. Captions in Danish..

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in VG condition with owner's bookplates to inner front board and FFE, light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG conditon with light rubbing to edges else bright, intact and whole.

Greenwood Pub Group, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Frank, Joseph Allan; Reaves, George A. : "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (Contributions in Military Studies). New York : Greenwood Press, 1989. First edition. Size is royal octavo (8vo), 9.25"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth, white lettering to spine. Matte gray dj. Plain white endpapers. Bibliography, index. X pp prelim material, 215 numbered pp, 12 pp unnumbered illustrations to center, three pp unnumbered following (one blank, one author info, one blank). Condition notes: a clean copy, marred by six pages having red underlining (about two lines each). Slight rippling to dj, which also has a price sticker to front and is covered in mylar. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Macmillan, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Nolan, Alan T. : The Iron Brigade: A Military History. New York : Macmillan, 1961. First edition. Size is demy octavo (8vo), 8.5"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt lettering imprinted on spine, gilt insignia of the Iron Brigade and its constituent regiments on front board. Semi-glossy dj, white background with black/gold/blue photo of the brigade's brimmed "slouch" hat. Front endpaper features map of where members of the brigade came from (Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin); rear endpaper shows map of where the brigade fought. Xviii pp prelim material, 412 numbered pp, 16 glossy b&w unnumbered pp throughout text, plus two blank unnumbered at end. Maps (by Wilson K. Hoyt III), photos, appendices (counties from which brigade members originated, commanders and officers, biographical note, uniform of the brigade, source materials for battle of Brawner Farm); notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: quite a nice unmarked first edition; corners… Read More

Brenthurst Press, 1983 Hardcover Limited Edition of 850 copies in red cloth boards, EX-LIBRARY with very minimal lib markings (no pockets, barcodes or call letters - only a few small neatly blacked-out 'discard' stamps), no text markings, no dj, minor shelf wear & soil to boards, touch of foxing to page block, else clean tight very nice copy; ob 4to; 275pp indexed & illus, some color. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy oversize book (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for overseas shipment). First Edition / Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good.

PeKo Publishing Kft., 2016. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 396pp, including 116p of b/w & col. maps, documents and photographs. An n excellent copy. (Due to the size/weight of this book, an extra shipping charge may apply.).