Utah Post Offices with Stations, Branches and CPOs & Railway Post Offices, Stations, Agents and Clerks
by Shaw, Lloyd
Bountiful, Utah: Privately Printed, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 81pp. Slim quarto [28 cm] Spiral bound. Privately printed edition by the author in December of 1998. 200 total copies issued (this copy is #139). A thorough guide to early Utah postmarks and postal history. Light soiling and wear to the wraps. Internally clean and bright. A definitive... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C. F. Martin and His Contemporaries
by Shaw, Robert; Peter Szego
Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Books, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 289pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. In the illustrated dust jacket. May require extra postage due to weight. Filled with spectacular photographs of dozens of early instruments by Martin, Ashborn, Stauffer, Henry Schatz, and other early builders, many of them presented full page. ... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Fire Fireman Fire!
by Shay, Timothy
Nelson, B. C.: Elephant Mountain Press, 1975. Original printing. Paperback. Very good. Very slim octavo [23 cm] Stapled yellow and black pictorial wraps. The fore edge of the front cover is rough-trimmed. Cover art work by Michael Lane. Timothy Shay is a well known literary figure in Vancouver. He has produced five poetry chapbooks and one collection of... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
The Spectral Bride
by Shearing, Joseph (pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell Long)
New York: Smith & Durrell, Inc, 1942. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good. 314pp. Octavo [21 cm] Darkening to the backstrip and front board along the top and fore-edge. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler CFL. "The Spectral Bride" is a tale of blackmail, murder, and madness, with ghosts and possession.... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
99 Out of a Hundred Wanna Be Loved. A Frank Skinner Arrangement. Lyrics by Al Lewis. Melody by Al Sherman. Originally Introduced by Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees on the Fleischmann Hour
by [Sheet Music] Held, John, Jr.
New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.; Robbins Music Corporation, 1931. Very Good. Folded pictorial wraps with loose sheet music. Light soiling and wear to the wraps. Numerical notation on front wrap. The front wrap features an illustration by John Held, Jr. and a reproduced photograph of Rudy Vallee. With sheet music inside wraps for 1st Violin, 2nd Violin, Viola, Cello,... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Millard Sheets: One-Man Renaissance
by Sheets, Millard; Janice Lovoos, Edmund F. Penney and Richard Armour
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED. 155pp. Red cloth over boards with silver stamping. Oblong quarto [26.5 cm x 32 cm] ***Lacking the lithograph. The spine of the book is sunned. In the matching slipcase, with sunning to the edges. Number 9 in an edition limited to 100. Signed by Millard Sheets on... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Millard Sheets: One-Man Renaissance
by Sheets, Millard; Janice Lovoos, Edmund F. Penney and Richard Armour
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 155pp. Oblong quarto [25 cm x 29 cm] Red cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine and front cover. Very good. The front cover is ever so slightly warped. In a very good dust jacket, with minor soiling, and a 4" closed tear in the top edge... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Thirst: Great Salt Lake
by Sheikh, Fazal; Terry Tempest Williams (Essay)
Fazal Sheikh Archive, 2024. First edition. New. 134pp. Folio [37.5cm]. Flexible illustrated wraps. "An arresting visual document that charts the degradation of one of America’s most astonishing natural monuments. In November 2022, the water level of the Great Salt Lake fell to its lowest on record. Diverted water supply from its feeding rivers, pollution from nearby extraction... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
The Moon is Behind Us: 30 Letters in Response to 30 Moons
by Sheikh, Fazal; Terry Tempest Williams
Germany: Steidl, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. New. 188pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. 1/4 beige cloth over illustrated boards. Title stamped in black on spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. An intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of crisis. In the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by COVID-19, photographer Fazal... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Geoffrey's Victory or the Double Deception
by Sheldon, Mrs. Georgie
New York: A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 277; 305pp. Twelvemo [19 cm] Yellow cloth with green ink stamped titles, green ink stamped decorative designs on the spine and front cover, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the front cover. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped. The spine is... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
What About Those Temple Ordinances? Baptism for the Dead
by Sheldon, William A.
Independence, MO: Board of Publications / Church of Christ (Temple Lot), 1977. August Edition. Paperback. Very thin octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled white and black printed pamphlet. Fine condition. 5000 copies printed.
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mrs. Shelley [Mary Shelley]
New York: The Mershon Company Publishers. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 294pp. Sextodecimo [15 cm] Red cloth over boards decorated in silver. Covers a bit cocked. Spine sunned. Slight fraying to cloth at spine ends. Pages age toned. With Preface and Preface to the Last London Edition. Scarce 19th-century edition, attributed to 1893. Mershon issued a number of... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (with heat changing illustrations)
by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Concept by Marko Matijasevic; Illustrations by Yana Adamovic
Zagreb, Croatia: Amaranthine Books, 2022. The Doctor Edition, Limited to 300 Numbered and Signed Copies. Fine. SIGNED. 354pp. The covers of The Doctor Edition embody the harsh nature of the vain doctor. With smooth aluminum on the cover, symbolising the operating table with a real surgeon’s needle blocked on the front, it is quarter-bound in finest goatskin leather... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Lynd Ward
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Lynd Ward. 259pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards with wraparound illustration. Publisher's black top stain. Spine rolled and prominently darkened (title still bold). Cloth at head of spine frayed, and cloth at foot of spine a little chipped. Pages with normal... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Starring Boris Karloff
by Shelley, Mary; Kerry Gammill; El Garing; Richard Starkings; Robert Napton; Sir Christopher Frayling (Afterword)
Burbank, CA: Legendary Comics, 2024. First Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Kerry Gammill, El Garing. 120 pp. Quarto [28.3 cm]. Black paper over board. Green lettering on the front board and back strip. Black end pages. From the publisher: "Decades before the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells, 18-year-old Mary Shelley wrote what many regard as... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
New York: Puffin Books, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover. New. 261 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. New no flaws. 11th printing. Modern reproduction of the 1831 standard novel edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Hohokam
by Shelton, Richard
Tucson, AZ: SUN/ gemini Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Steven Trubitt. SIGNED. Octavo [24.5 cm] in maroon cloth with paper spine label and blind-embossed device on front board. Faint shelfwear, else As New. Signed by author on epigraph page and by artist on colophon. With Hohokam pottery designs from photographs, by Steven Trubitt.
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Lost Apostles: Forgotten Members of Mormonism's Original Quorum of Twelve
by Shepard, William; H. Michael Marquardt
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 400 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; 1/4 gray paper with beige paper over boards. Pictorial dust jacket. "Before the LDS Church was organized, Joseph Smith received a revelation telling him that twelve men would be called as latter-day apostles. Their assignment would be to warn men and women... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
A Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church
by Shepherd, Gordon; Gary Shepherd
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2016. First revised edition. Paperback. New. 406pp. Octavo [23 cm] in wraps. "This is a revised and updated edition of a unique 1984 study in the application of sociological analysis to Mormon history. By now a classic, its use of general conference rhetoric to trace the 'transformation of the Kingdom'... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Jack Sheridan I.W.W. Membership Card, or "red card
by [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW]; Jack Sheridan
Industrial Workers of the World, 1945. Ephemera. Very Good. 18pp. [11.5cm]. Bound in a dark red leatherette, with "Membership Card" and the I.W.W. symbol stamped in a light green ink on the front board. Bit of rubbing to extremities, and a small ink notation on the front pastedown. The card notes Jack's affiliation with Union No.... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Days of Vintage, Years of Vision Volume II
by Sherwood, Midge
San Marino, CA: Orizaba Publications, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. SIGNED. 399pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark red cloth stamped in gilt. The spine and covers are lightly edge worn. In a dust jacket, with toning, mildly creased and chipped edges, and a 1" closed edge tear. This tear and the chipping to the head of the... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Guide to the Royal Arch Chapter: A Complete Monitor for Royal Arch Masonry. With Full Instructions in the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master and Royal Arch, According to the Text of The Manual of the Chapter...Together with a Historical Introduction, Explanatory Notes and Critical Emendations. To Which are Added Monitorial Instructions in the Holy Order of High Priesthood in Royal Arch Masonry with the Ceremonies of the Order
by Sheville, John; James L. Gould
New York: Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co, 1897. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. 272pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and blind. Cloth extremities with a light layer of soiling and moderately rubbed. Hinges soft. Two previous owners' names and brief notations in pen on the front free endpaper.... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Divergent Paths of the Restoration: An Encyclopedia of the Smith-Rigdon Movement (Volume 2)
by Shields, Steven L.
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2022. Fifth Edition. Paperback. New. 542pp. Octavo. [23cm] Illustrated wraps. "When Joseph Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830, he declared it to be God’s restoration of true Christianity, the Kingdom of God on earth. Although he foresaw opposition to such bold claims, he could not fathom that time and unforeseen... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Divergent Paths of the Restoration: An Encyclopedia of the Smith-Rigdon Movement (Volume 1)
by Shields, Steven L.
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2022. Fifth Edition. Paperback. New. 476pp. Octavo. [23cm] Illustrated wraps. "When Joseph Smith founded the Church of Christ in 1830, he declared it to be God’s restoration of true Christianity, the Kingdom of God on earth. Although he foresaw opposition to such bold claims, he could not fathom that time and unforeseen... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by Shilts, Randy
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. New. 418pp. Octavo. [20.9 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and political life is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books