Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
by Bagley, Will
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008. Uncorrected proof. Paperback. 306pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 black cloth with illustrated wraps. Fine condition. Illustrated. Bagley writes in the preface- "I also quickly learned that this was not simply the biography of one man but a family chronicle, and I could not resist exploring Charles, Mary, and Maud McCarthy's complicated love... Read More
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With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West 1849-1852 (Overland West Volume II)
by Bagley, Will
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 464pp. Quarto. Full tan cloth with black titles printed on the spine. Minor soiling to foot of text block. In the pictorial dust jacket with rubbing. From the publisher: During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed... Read More
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Kingdom in the West, Volume 3- Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers
by Bagley, Will (ed.)
Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. SIGNED. 476pp. Octavo [24 cm.] Light blue cloth with silver stamped titles in dark blue panels on front board and backstrip. The textblock has slightly dropped, and the foot of the textblock is lightly soiled as a result. Includes an index and a bibliography. Illustrated with... Read More
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Bagley, Will
Norman, OK: University of Oaklahoma Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 493 pp. Quarto [26 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth and paper over boards. Title stamped in metallic red ink on backstrip and bottom right corner of front board. Maroon endpapers. From the publisher: "The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most... Read More
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Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers
by Bagley, Will (ed.)
Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 476pp. Octavo [24 cm.] Light blue cloth with silver stamped titles in dark blue panels on front board and backstrip. Fine. Includes an index and a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. Brannan was an early convert to the LDS faith, and holds a prominent place in California, and Mormon history.... Read More
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Kingdom in the West, Volume 1 - The Pioneer Camp of the Saints; The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
by Bagley, Will (Editor)
Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 393pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Light blue cloth spine and boards with turquoise letterbox and silver lettering on spine and front board. Singed and inscribed by Bagley on front free endpaper. With folding map at the rear. With bibliography and index. Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and... Read More
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Bagley, Will
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. SIGNED. 493pp. Octavo [26 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over matching boards. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. With the dust jacket. The most important work on the Mountain Meadows Massacre since Juanita Brooks' work published in 1950. On September 11, 1857, the Fancher-Baker Party of overland trail immigrants... Read More
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Bagley, Will
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Uncorrected page proofs. Paperback. Near fine. SIGNED. 458pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Thirty-six black and white illustrations. The fore edge corners of the wraps are just slightly curled. Signed by Bagley on half-title in the year of publication: "Will Bagley/ 17 May 2002/ Mormon History Association/ Tucson, Arizona". The... Read More
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Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers
by Bagley, Will
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999. Paperback. As New. Signed. 476pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; illustrated wraps. "Through letters and other documents by Samuel Brannan and his contemporaries, Will Bagley offers the first honest and accurate portrait of one of the most colorful and important figures in California and Mormon history. An early convert to Mormonism, a protege of... Read More
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Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier (16 volumes)
by Bagley, Will; David L. Bigler et al.
Spokane, WA; Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth with silver stamped titles in dark blue panels on front board and backstrip. The majority of the volumes are fine, else they are near fine. Mormon Pioneer Trail brochure in the rear pocket of volume 1. All sixteen of... Read More
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Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
by Bagley, Will
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. NEW. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo [23.5] Black cloth with title and author in silver on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed and dated on the day of publication by the author on the half-title page. Cowboy, judge, federal official, then business executive, Wilson McCarthy mirrored change and growth in the twentieth-century... Read More
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Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
by Bagley, Will
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. INSCRIBED. 288pp. Octavo [23.5] Black cloth with title and author in silver on the backstrip. Very minor corner scuffing/bumping and dust jacket creasing. Two very small closed tears to back of dust jacket. Some wear to head/tail of spine. Inscribed by Bagley to Geri McCarthey,... Read More
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With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West 1849-1852
by Bagley, Will
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Later printing. Hardcover. New. 464pp. Octavo [26 cm]; full tan cloth with black titles printed on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. From the publisher: During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second... Read More
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Bagley, Will
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 493pp. Octavo [26 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over matching boards. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. Spine ends and board edges a bit dinged. In a dust jacket, with a 2" crease to the front inside flap. The most important work on the Mountain Meadows Massacre since... Read More
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These Our Fathers: A Centennial History of Sanpete County 1849 to 1947
by Bagnall, Florence (Editorial)
Springville, UT: Art City Publishing Company / Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of Sanpete County, Utah 1947. Hardcover. Very good +. 233pp. Quarto [27 cm] Green hardcover with gilt stamped titles and a gilt stamped vignette on the front cover. The rear board is just a little splayed. Charming history of this central Utah county.
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Sugar House Review #12; Volume 7/Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2015
by Bailey, Caitlin; Lance Larsen, Elise Tobin, Lisa Robertson, Kristen Roach, Andrew Cleary, Rob Carney, Bret Shepard, Cady Vishniac, et al. [Contributors]
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2015. First edition. Paperback. New. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm].
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Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a more Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary (Bailey's Dictionary)
by Bailey, N.
[London]: [Printed for T. Cox], 1736. [Second edition]. Leather bound. Folio [36 cm] Full brown leather with raised bands, a gilt tooled spine, and a black leather gilt stamped spine label. Fair condition. The front cover is completely detached, but present. The back cover is hanging on by the chords. No title page. The pages are clean and bright.... Read More
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Grandpa was a Polygamist
by Bailey, Paul
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 181pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red pebbled cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and an embossed vignette on the front cover. Illustrated endsheets. Very good. The extremities are very gently bumped and rubbed. There is a horizontal split in the cloth at the foot of the spine.... Read More
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William Bailey: Recent Paintings. January 6 - February 10, 1979
by Bailey, William; Introduction by Mark Strand
New York: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, 1979. Catalogue of the Exhibition. Paperback. Very slim oblong octavo [18 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps. Near fine condition. "There is a kind of still life painting that incorporates, for its peculiar influence on the viewer, characteristics more commonly associated with landscape. William Bailey's still lifes are of this sort. Their domesticity is an illusion.... Read More
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Tops and Whistles: True Stories of Early American Toys and Children
by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Grace Paull. 193pp. Large octavo [23 cm] Beige cloth with an orange ink stamped title on the spine, and an orange ink stamped vignette on the front cover. Brightly illustrated endsheets. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Very lightly rubbed and soiled. The edges of the inside flaps... Read More
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Honey Bee Pathology
by Bailey, Leslie
London: Academic Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 124 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. Extremities and edge of page block sunned. Corners bumped. Front hinge cracked. As described in the preface, the author noticed that many authors in apiology engaged in the fallacious separation of honeybee study and study of other insects.... Read More
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Murder of the Mormon Prophet: The Political Prelude to the Death of Joseph Smith
by Baker, LeGrand L.
Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED. 812pp. Thick octavo [23.5 cm] in black cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Boards are crisp and unworn; interior is clean and tight. In the dust jacket, with sunning to the spine (title and image still bold). Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To____... Read More
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The Raft Dog: Tangoroa Aboard Lehi IV
by Baker, Nola
Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, Inc, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 260pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Bound in gray cloth. Blue ink title on spine and cover. Illustration of Tangoroa on the cover. Gentle bumping to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is a bit faded and rubbed. Signed by Nola Baker, with a lengthy inscription to... Read More
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Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown And Other Essays For A Scientific Age
by Baker, Robert; Drawings by Stanley Wyatt
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1963. First edition of this compilation. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black and white paper over boards. Rubbed at the head of the spine and the top fore-edge corner of the front board. Endpapers darkened. In the dust jacket, with two small closed and open tears, and a prominent chipped... Read More
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Loving Wanda Beaver
by Baker, Alison
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. NF/NF. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Green boards quarterbound in black cloth are clean. Very faint bump at the head and tail of the spine. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author in blue pen on the half title page: "For ----- / From Alison Baker / Thanks for standing /... Read More
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