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Princeton, NJ, 1909. Original edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. Large folio, 4pp, printed on heavy stock. Several front-page stories, including: "Remains Unearthed--Excavation for Sage Dormitory Results in Expected Recovery of Fitz Randolph Graves." Contains several dozen interesting ads for services and products appealing to Ivy League undergrads of the day, such as tailor-made shirts and suits, "college footwear," billiards, bed linens, Turkish cigarettes, restaurants, photographer, &c. Two original folds; opens to 17.5" x 11.75

New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. pp: 156, (44) illustrations of type-pages and types printed in black and orange, portrait on text stock. Bound in blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Original dust jacket. 9.5" x 6

San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: viii, (iii), 357, (1); 2 portraits, 13 plates from photographic views of the Merrymount Press. Bound in orange wove cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 9" x 5.75" Limited edition of 500 copies, the main portion of which was first published by Harvard University Press.

New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: 156, (44) illustrations of type-pages and types printed in black and orange, portrait on text stock. Bound in blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Original dust jacket. 9.5" x 6

Los Angeles: Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1949. First edition thus. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. (8)pp; illus with silhouettes. Keepsake No. 3, Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners. 8.5" x 5.5" First published at Philadelphia in 1878 by Upham, a self-described '49-er.

Salt Lake City: Bureau of Information, 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (96)pp; frontispiece and text illustrations from photographs. Bound in color-pictorial wrappers, 7" x 4.5". Laid in is a palm card showing Temple Block on the recto, with LDS Articles of Faith on the verso, and an invitation: "Should you wish any further information concerning our doctrines, please write." Fine condition, 2.5" x 4.25" This informative guidebook includes major sections on: History; Agriculture; Mining; Temple Block; Book of Mormon; Tabernacle Choir; Salt Lake City; Street Car Service; The Great Salt Lake; Denver & Rio Grande Railroad; Going West via the Salt Lake Route; etc.

NY: Scribners, 1924. Second Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xv, 445 Index; 51 illus from photographs, maps. This history of early Utah has chapters on the Native Americans, fur traders, stagecoach, railroads, Mormons, etc. 7.5" x 5" [Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 10101.].

Salt Lake City: Utah Land Investment & Trust Ass'n, 1889. Original document. Very Good. Issued to F.N. Shelton, Certificate No. 99, for one share of the assets of Series B, to be paid in 12 assessments of 10 dollars each. Par value of each share, $120. Engraved, decorated border, printed in blue. Signed by Walter Murphy, Secretary, and by F.S. Bascom, President of the Association. Several payments recorded in ink on the verso, and signed by Murphy. 5.25" x 9.75" F.S. Bascom, M.D. was also a practicing physician who extolled the health benefits of the Salt Lake City climate, the nearby sulphur springs, and the waters of the Great Salt Lake.

St. Paul, Minnesota: F. Jay Haynes, 1900. Original edition. Boxed. Very Good. Complete deck of 52 playing cards, plus Joker, in a worn box meant for Alaska Souvenir Playing Cards, published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, 1900. Each card has a different duo-tone view of a western sight with captions; suit and denomination markings as usual. The pictorial card-backs are printed in gilt and colors, displaying a river canyon and a steam locomotive; gilt edges. 3.5" x 2.5