Tyler Daniel Sergeant (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Later Edition. Very good plus condition hardcover copy of the 2nd printing by Rio Grande Press, 1969. Some light wear to four cover corners. No names or writing within.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. No Jacket. Vibrant blue hardcover with silger gilt lettering to the cover and spine. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Previous owner's name inside. Still great condition. Secure pages, solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint Edition. Stated Second Printing of the reprint of the text published originally in 1881. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Printed, illustrated tan cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to front cover and spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Publisher's Preface. Harold Schindler provides an Introduction. Original Preface, Table of Contents and Introductory, then a chapter about the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. viii [2], 11-386 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. "OUR NATION BOAST NO SOLDIERS/ SO TRUE AS 'MORMON' MEN" First edition. [Salt Lake City:] 1881 (but 1882). Octavo (8 11/16" x 5 15/16", 220mm x 151mm): pp. [2] (title, imprint), i-iii iv-viii, [2] (introductory, Martyrdom of Joseph Smith), 11-376. Bound in the publisher's black blocked cloth (re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down). On the spine, title and author gilt. All edges of the text-block sprinkled red. Re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down. Some rubbing to the extremities. End-papers renewed. An overall clean, tight copy. Bookplate of James Strohn Copley to the front paste-down. Daniel Tyler (1816-1907) was a member of the Mormon Battalion -- the only unit ever organized on principles of belief -- that mustered at Council Bluffs and marched to San Diego during the Mexican-American War of 1846. The Mormons, settled in Nauvoo, IL, agreed to leave the state, settling in the Salt Lake Valley from 24 July 1847. Keen for acceptance into the United States despite living outside of statehood, Mormon men organized to fight for the newly-claimed territory in the Southwest, resulting in the 1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo. Some remained in California, but many returned to Utah Territory, which was established in 1850. Tyler's account of the battalion -- written from first-hand experience, is celebrated as "the earliest and probably the best book on the famous Mormon Battalion of the Mexican War" in the Zamorano 80, the legendary collection of books relating to the early history of California. James Strohn Copley (1916-1973) was the consummate twentieth-century Californian. He published the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune (merged into the Union-Tribune in 1992), and was a longtime friend and confidant of Goldwater and Nixon. He began in the Northeast, managing the school newspaper at Phillips Andover and the humor magazine at Yale. Eventually the Copley Press came to own a great many papers in Illinois and, principally, California. Graff 4226; Howes T 447; Zamorano 80, 75.