Utah Guide State, First Edition (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. Margaret Pettis (illustrator). First edition. 195pp. Quarto [28 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Local author Margaret Pettis takes readers on a journey through many road trips in Utah. Includes her own illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stated First Edition. Blue w/silver lettering. Mild shelfwear head and heel. Text is clean and tight, no marks. Illustrated throughout w/photographs. Unclipped DJ has small chips and tears head and heel.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Paper covers, About very good in wrappers. Clean copy is warped with very mild wear on corners, publisher's info laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. xxvi, 553pp+ maps and index. Address label on verso of half title, spine sunned with some dulling to the lettering, else very good in publisher's blue cloth; lacking the jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xxvi+595 pp., photos, index, map end papers, cloth, vg+ 6-Guns #48 Herd #56 Indians, outlaws, Mormons, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Square and tight in navy cloth boards. Lightly age toned front and rear endpapers. No internal markings. Corners very lightly bumped. Head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. No map, as issued. Unclipped ($2.50) jacket is overall shelfworn with moderate soiling. 2' chip on top front cover impacts the 'h' in Utah. Moderate edgewear. Flap folds worn but not torn. Rear flap corners creased. Small hole on rear of jacket eliminates the word 'we' but the piece is there to be taped in place if one wishes. B & W photos throughout. No map, as issued. Stated First Published in 1941.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First edition. 595 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Blue cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine and front board. Original dust jacket has tearing and scuffing along edges and a small [1 mm] hole on front panel. A stated first edition copy of the respected guide to Utah history with a forword by Gail Martin. Part of the American Guide Series. This was Morgan's first full-scale book. Though others contributed to the work Morgan did such significant editing and rewriting before publication that much of the work is de facto his own. It had the well deserved reputation of being one of the best volumes in the series. The quality of the work assumes added significance when it is noted that the book was completed and published before Morgan's twenty-seventh birthday without the benefit of academic training in historical methodology. - Saunders 13.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 779pp. Thick octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Housed in a matching slipcase, which shows only light edge wear. The first edition was published in 1941. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the recto of the frontispiece: "July 8, 1982 / To Bill Smart / May this approximate / your own high standards! / Sincerely / Ward." "William B. Smart" is stamped in gilt on the front board. Smart was a former editor at "Deseret News." Revised and Enlarged (Author's inscribed presentation copy).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover edge wear, small chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. With attribution. Second Printing. Grey cloth in protective cover. No DJ. Signed by Allistaire Cooke on ffep and with from his library on obverse of ffep. In archival cover.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. 595pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Good only/Very good. Jacket chipped at head with small losses to the rear panel. Rear flap detached but present. This was Morgan's first full-scale book. Though others contributed to the work Morgan did such significant editing and rewriting before publication that much of the work is defacto his own. It had the well deserved reputation of being one of the best volumes in the Series. The quality of the work assumes added significance when it is noted that the book was completed and published before Morgan's twenty-seventh birthday without the benefit of academic training in historical methodology. Saunders 13. Scharf/Schoyer 598. Powell 1500. Herd 56. Six Guns 48. Dale L. Morgan (1914 1971), was an American historian, accomplished researcher, biographer, editor, and critic. He specialized in material on Utah history, Mormon history, the American fur trade, and overland trails. His work is known both for its comprehensive research and accuracy and for the fluid imagery of his prose.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover edge wear, small chips, spine sunned. ON HOLD.

Hardcover. First Edition. Very near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stampings on the spine and front board and with map end sheets. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 3/8 inches with very slight fading to the cloth at the head of the spine and with a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a very good- dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap, but with a 1/3 inch deep chip at the upper fore corner of the spine area, a 1 1/2 inch narrow chip on the upper rear corner of the spine area and chipping over the tips of the boards. One of the American Guide Series. 595 pages including an index, chronology, photographs, and maps. This is one of the few WPA Amercian Guide series titles not called for to have a map at the rear.

[UTAH]. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, decorated endpapers, xxvi, 595 pp., foreword, preface, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, chronology, selected reading list, list of consultants, index. American Guide Series publication compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Projects Administration for the state of Utah. This guide provides readers with insights into the region's early settlement, its role in Utah's transportation and railroad history, and its deep agricultural roots. Featuring local landmarks, natural wonders, and cultural traditions, the book serves as both a travel companion and a historical reference. Six Guns 48 says, "Has some information on Butch Cassidy, Joseph Slade and other bad men." Some minor discoloration to top edge of front cloth panel, spine panel moderately faded, else very good tight copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and the extremities, and evidence of a small label removal from spine and front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Including the wonderful photogravures. Rear map section in front of index. First edition with date on title page and no subsequent printings listed on copyright page. Schoyer 598; American Guide Series; Photogravures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxvi, 595 pages.