Utah and the Civil War; Being the Story of the part Played by the People of Utah in that Great Conflict, with special reference to the Lost Smith Expedition and the Robert T. Burton Expedition
by Fisher, Margaret M.
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 173 pp. Blue clothbound, decorated with a map of the United States and portraits of Brigham Young and Abraham Lincoln. Binding is in fine condition.
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Boss Dog: A Fable in Six Parts
by Fisher, M. F. K.
Covelo, CA: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Near fine. 104pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] in decorative wraps with matching endpapers, with handmade paper jacket, in publisher's thin board slipcase. Light edgewear and a few small stains to slipcase. Copy number 71 of 190 numbered copies bound in sewn paper wrappers, from a total edition of 255... Read More
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How to Cook a Wolf
by Fisher, M. F. K.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 261pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth over boards with a white ink stamped title on the backstrip and a white ink stamped wolf vignette on the front board. Handful of minor small stains to the edges of the text block. Extremities a bit toned, rubbed, and... Read More
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American Beauties
by Fisher, Harrison (Illustrator); E. Stetson Crawford (Illustrator)
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Harrison Fisher. Unpageinated. Quarto [29cm]. Orange paper over boards. Floral illustrated stamped into cover, title gilt into front board. Backstrip and board corners are bumped. There is two very light liquid soiling marks on the front cover. This is a beautiful collection of Harrison Fisher's American Beauties.... Read More
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A Sudden Country
by Fisher, Karen
New York: Random House, 2005. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 366 pp. Hardbound in paper-covered boards, pictyorial dust jacket. Signed in fountain pen by Fisher on the title page.
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The Golden Rooms
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1944. Limited first edition. Leather bound. 324pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Red grained leather with gilt bands and title to backstrip. Title and author gilt stamped on front board. Fine. The De Luxe Edition of The Golden Rooms is limited to 125 signed and numbered copies. Signed by Vardis Fisher and numbered 48/125. ... Read More
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Adam and the Serpent
by Fisher, Vardis
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1947. Hardcover. 335pp. Octavo [21 cm] Pale blue cloth over boards with blue ink stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. Very good plus. Lightly rubbed and bumped at the spine ends and corners of the covers. In a very good dust jacket, with sunning to the spine and along the folds,... Read More
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God or Caesar? The Writing of Fiction for Beginners
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 271pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with dark blue ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. Very gently rubbed and bumped at the extremities. In a very good dust jacket, with mild yellowing and rubbing, and a number of shallow closed and open tears in... Read More
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No Villain Need Be
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 387pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with gilt stamping on the spine and front cover. Top and bottom edges trimmed, fore edges rough trimmed. Very good condition. The boards are just a little bowed, the spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped. The dust jacket... Read More
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My Holy Satan
by Fisher, Vardis
Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 326pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth with printed title on front board and backstrip. Very good. The edges of the covers are gently bumped and rubbed. The spine and surrounding areas are subtly faded. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Lightly soiled and creased. There is a... Read More
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We Are Betrayed
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 369pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title gilt on backstrip. Light chipping to jacket spine at extremeties, slight sunning to jacket spine; boards are crisp and unworn.
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Peace Like A River: A Novel of Christian Asceticism
by Fisher, Vardis; [Frederick Manfred]
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 316pp. Octavo [22cm] Grey-Blue cloth covered boards. Back board has a few small spots of soiling. Pencil notes on rear endpaper. Warm gift inscription on the front endpaper from famous author, Frederick Manfred. Dust jacket is a bit foxed with a sun toned spine. Our main character, Hareb, is determined... Read More
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The Neurotic Nightingale
by Fisher, Vardis
Casanova Press, 1935. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Very good minus. SIGNED. 71pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Faded at the spine and edges. Signed by Vardis Fisher on the limitation page. Number 48 of 300 copies. Also includes the essays, How's Your Sense of Humor?, Some Implications... Read More
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My Holy Satan
by Fisher, Vardis
Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 326pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth with printed title on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. This special limited edition subscription printing of the first edition for friends of Vardis Fisher. Edition of 200 copies signed by Vardis Fisher and numbered of which this is 162/200. Volume XI of the Testament... Read More
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The Golden Rooms
by Fisher, Vardis
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. SIGNED. 324pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards with blue lettering on the backstrip and the publisher's device stamped in blue ink on the front cover. Publisher's green top stain. The spine is rolled, and the endsheets are darkened along the hinges. In the age-toned dust... Read More
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Darkness and the Deep
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1943. Limited first edition. Leather bound. 296pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black grained leather with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Fine. The De Luxe edition od Darkness and the Deep is limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. Signed by Vardis Fisher and numbered 83/100.
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Tale of Valor: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Fisher, Vardis
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 456pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan cloth with red printed title and vignette on backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. The spine ends are gently bumped, and the edges of the text block are very slightly stained. There is a 1 and 1/4 inch crack in the top... Read More
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The Valley of Vision; A Novel of King Solomon and his Time
by Fisher, Vardis
New York: Abelard Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. SIGNED. 425 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; Red orange cloth over boards with black and gilt illustrated spine. Edges and corners are gently rubbed and bumped. Spine ends are creased. Black on spine is rubbed and faded near extremities, gilt remains solid. Interior hinges, connecting the text block to boards,... Read More
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God or Caesar? The Writing of Fiction for Beginners
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 271pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with printed titles. Near fine/Fine.
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Sonnets To An Imaginary Madonna (Inscribed by Vardis Fisher to Ingle Barr)
by Fisher, Vardis
New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus/very good. SIGNED. 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper title labels on the front board and backstrip. The edges of the covers are rubbed, and there are thin losses from the spine ends. The free endpapers are dampstained along the fore edges. Ex libris Ingle... Read More
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We Are Betrayed
by Fisher, Vardis
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 369pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title gilt on backstrip. Light chipping to jacket spine at top and to jacket rear cover at top, slight sunning to jacket spine; boards are crisp and unworn.
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Intimations of Eve
by Fisher, Vardis
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 331pp. Octavo [21 cm] Beige cloth over boards. Publisher's pink topstain. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with small chips to the edges and folds. The third book in the Testament of Man series. Vardis Fisher's Children of God was the 1939-40 Harper Prize Novel.
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Sonnets To An Imaginary Madonna
by Fisher, Vardis
New York: Harold VInal, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper labels on front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Minor chipping to corners of jacket. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. The author's first work in an original, scarce dustjacket.
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The Caxton Printers in Idaho: A Short History
by Fisher, Vardis
Cincinnati, OH: Society of Bibliosophers, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. 32pp. Duodecimo [20.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over red decorative boards. Title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Fine. Publishers plain cream jacket is present and in very good condition with minor chipping to the corners and a small piece missing from the center of the spine. Warmly inscribed by the... Read More
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Pemmican
by Fisher, Vardis
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 319pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth with a black ink stamped title on the spine. Illustrated endsheets. Bookplate on the front pastedown and a lengthy gift inscription on the title page. Price-clipped jacket is nicked at the corners. The nineteenth-century conflict between the Hudson's... Read More
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