Tschanz Rare Books
Specializing in Books, Maps, Photos, and Ephemera with a specific focus on Utah, Mormons, Western Americana, National Parks, Native Americans
About
We are Salt Lake City based antiquarian booksellers with over four decades in the used and rare book trade in Utah and are proud members of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American); ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and RMABA (Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association). We exhibit at bookfairs throughout the west and issue regular lists of new arrivals. Kent Tschanz has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Westerners (2012-20) and the Friends of the J. Willard Marriott Library (2014-2022). President of RMABA (2022- ) Board of Governors of the ABAA (2023-). Founded the Utah Bibliographical Society 2021. He presented at the Collecting Yellowstone Conference (2019) that was sponsored by the University of Wyoming and Brigham Young University. He was a presenter at Mormon History Association’s annual conference (2019). Co-curator of the exhibit Latter-day Gamers at the Harold B. Lee Library (2022) and on the accompanying San Diego Comic-Con Panel (2023), and is Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) compliant through September 15, 2025. Tschanz Rare Books actively buys and sells books, photographs, ephemera, maps, regional games and objects in our specialties: Utah & the Mormons, Interior West, Western National Parks, Western Indians, Railroads and Western Americana generally. Please contact us if you would like to receive our regularly issued lists containing new arrivals. Our gallery is located at 1354 South 21st East and is open by appointment or Tschanz.Terms of Sale
All items subject to prior sale. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described. Items may be returned for a full refund within fourteen days with prior notification. Regular customers may expect their usual billing terms. Institutions will be accomodated according to their needs.
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Recently Added Books
Canyonlands National Park
by Gal, Jean-Claude
Utah: A Guide to the State
by Morgan, Dale L.
Garden of the Gods
by Monsen, Frederick I.
Earth First! Newsletter: The Radical Environmental Journal
by [Foreman, Dave]
Earth First! Festival Program
by [Gary Snyder] [Ed Abbey]
Head of the Stairs, Big Cottonwood
by Savage, Charles Roscoe
Obsidian Cliff from Beaver Lake
by Haynes, Frank Jay
Inventory of the County Archives of Utah. No. 23 Tooele County (Tooele City)
by Morgan, Dale L.
Recently added catalogues
Now, I am the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger, and that means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are.
Bob Moss (1953-2011) was an outsider folk artist and musician who lived “out there” and on the fringe. Moss was enamored with the strangeness and beauty of the Deseret alphabet, and created art (mostly wood burnings) based on Brigham Young’s failed experiment.