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Dale L. Morgan Terms Advance reservations are suggested. All items offered subject to prior sale. Please call, fax, or e-mail to reserve an item. Our downtown Salt Lake City bookshop is open 10-6, Monday-Saturday. Voicemail, fax, or email is available to take your order 24 hours a day. All items are located at our store and are available for inspection during our normal business hours. Our 4,000 square foot store houses over 100,000 volumes of used, rare, and a smattering of new books. All items are guaranteed authentic and to be as described. All autographed items are guaranteed to be authentic. Any item may be returned for a full refund within ten days if the customer is not satisfied. Prior notification is appreciated. Prices are in U.S. Dollars. Cash with order. Regular customers and institutions may expect their usual terms. We accept cash, checks, wire transfers, paypal, Visa, MasterCard and American Express. All items will be shipped via FedEx ground unless otherwise requested. Shipping charges are $6.50 for the first item and $1.00 for each additional item. All other shipping, including expedited shipping and large items, will be shipped at cost. Utah residents, please add 6.85% Utah sales tax. Ken Sanders Rare Books 268 South 200 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Tel. (801) 521-3819 Fax. (801) 521-2606 www.kensandersbooks.com email inquiries to: [email protected] Entire contents copyright 2011 by Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA and may not be reprinted without permission. All rights reserved. Thank you to Richard Saunders and Will Bagley. 1. Anderson, William Marshall (edited by Dale L. Morgan). The Rocky Mountain Journals of William Marshall Anderson : The West in 1834. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1967. First edition. 430pp. Quarto [26 cm] Orange cloth with title in gilt on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. The print run for this first edition was 1500 copies. Significant and important work. Almost half of this work is a list of biographical sketches on notable figures of the American fur trade. Saunders 58. $100.00 2. Barry, Louise (foreword by Dale L. Morgan). The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society, 1972. First edition. 1295pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. Saunders 64. $50.00 3. Flake, Chad; Dale L. Morgan (Introduction). Mormon Bibliography, 1830- 1930: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century (three volume set). Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1978, 1989, 1992. First editions. 825, 413, 208 pp. Quartos 28.5 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. All three volumes in near fine or very good condition. The covers of volume 1 are rubbed. Volume Two: Ten Year Supplement. Volume Three Index. Set of the definitive bibliography on Mormonism. Scallawagiana 100. $200.00 4. Fremont, John Charles (Dale L. Morgan). Geographical Memoir upon Upper California in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. 65pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Gray illustrated boards. Near fine. Reprinted from the 1848 edition in a limitation of 450 copies. Introductions by Allan Nevins and Dale L. Morgan. Facsimile Preuss map is present and in the rear pocket. Saunders 46. $75.00 5. Gardiner, Howard C. (edited by Dale L. Morgan). In Pursuit of the Golden Dream: Reminiscences of San Francisco and the Northern and Southern Mines, 1849-1857. Stroughton, MA: Western Hemispheres, 1970. First edition. 390pp. Quarto [29 cm] Red cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip Fine. Fold-out map present at the rear. In addition to reprinting Gardiner's work, Morgan compiled a substantial introduction consisting of a bibliographic essay on the northern mines and correspondence concerning the original publication of the reminiscences. Saunders 62. $50.00 6. Judd, Laura Fish (edited by Dale Morgan). Honolulu: Sketches of Life in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1966. 379pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with title in gilt on the backstrip. Fine. This is the Lakeside Classic for Christmas, 1966. Saunders 54. $30.00 7. Kelly, Charles & Dale Morgan. Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1965. Limited Edition, 1/100. 380pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Original green buckram with title gilt on backstrip. Housed in a two part slipcase (inner/outer). Fine. Signed by both authors in ink on the limitation page. This volume is numbered 72 out of a limitation of 100 copies. Includes a bibliography and an index. Eight illustrated pages internally and fold out map at rear. Map is titled: "California - Oregon Trails, 1846." History of the trapper and trail guide by two of the most prominent western historians of the era. Uncommon. Saunders 69 $500.00 8. Kelly, Charles & Dale Morgan. Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1965. Revised second edition. 380pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Fold out map present at rear. Map is titled: "California - Oregon Trails, 1846." History of the trapper and trail guide by two of the most prominent western historians of the era. This edition was limited to 750 copies. Uncommon in this condition. Saunders 52. $75.00 9. Korns, J. Roderic; Dale Morgan, Will Bagley & Harold Schindler. West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails across Utah, 1846- 1850. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1994. First edition. 328pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with title gilt stamped on backstrip. Fine/Fine. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Original Diaries and Journals Edited and with Introductions by J. Roderic Korns and Dale L. Morgan. Revised and Updated by Will Bagley and Harold Schindler. Map present in rear pocket. $50.00 10. Lynch, Jeremiah (edited by Dale Morgan). Three Years in the Klondike. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1967. 375pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth with title in gilt on the backstrip. Fine. This work was written from memory, and as Morgan points out the author's facts sometimes aren't. This is the Lakeside Classic for Christmas, 1967. Saunders 59. $30.00 11. M'Collum, William (edited by Dale Morgan). California As I Saw It: Pencillings by the Way of its Gold and Gold Diggers! and Incidents of Travel by Land and Water. Los Gatos, CA: The Talisman Press, 1960. First edition. 219pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over cream boards. Paper label on backstrip. Title and illustration on the front board. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Fine in publisher's salmon colored slipcase. Signed by the editor, Dale Morgan, on the half-title. Printed in an edition of 750 copies. The first third of this work is Morgan's biography of McCollum. Morgan wrote the description for an original copy sold by Eberstadt in 1953. Howes M55. Saunders 34. "One of the most authentic contemporary narratives of California in the first year of the gold rush." - Howes. $100.00 12. McDermott, John Francis (ed). Travels on the Western Frontier. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1970. First edition. 351pp. Quarto 26.5 cm] Gray cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Price clipped jacket is lightly rubbed at the extremities. Includes the Dale Morgan essay 'Western Travels and Travelers in the Bancroft Library.' Saunders 63. $35.00 13. Morgan, Dale. Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence & A New History. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1986. First edition. 414pp. Octavo [24 cm] Maroon cloth with title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Edited by John Phillip Walker. Preface by William Mulder. Saunders 66 $25.00 14. Morgan, Dale. The Humboldt High Road of the West. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. First edition. 374pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth with gilt title on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing to the corners of the jacket. Former owner's note on the verso of the front free endsheet. More of a collection of short narratives then a straight ahead history, this Morgan work was one of his most successful works and one of the most popular in the 'Rivers' series. Twenty-third volume in 'The Rivers of America series'. Illustrated by Arnold Blanch. Fitzgerald H26. Saunders 16. $100.00 15. [Morgan, Dale]. Utah: A Guide to the State. New York: Hastings House, 1945. Second printing. 595pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth with the title in blue on front board and spine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing at the corners of the jacket. This was Morgan's first full-scale book. "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. $75.00 16. Morgan, Dale (ed.). Overland In 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail (two volume set). Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963. First edition. Two volume set. 457 & 458-825pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 red cloth over rust colored boards with titles gilt on backstrip. Both volumes are near fine in like jackets.
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