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Tschanz Rare Books List 52 Usual terms. Items Subject to prior sale. Call, text: 801-641-2874 Or email: [email protected] to confirm availability. Domestic shipping: $10 International and overnight shipping billed at cost. Lambourne, Alfred. Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead. Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Publishers, 1909. First Edition. 256pp. Octavo [25 cm] Green cloth with title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip. Top edge gilt. Near fine. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Presented to James A. Langton - By the Children of Alfred Lambourne. June 14, 1926." Illustrated by James T. Harwood with seven full page vignettes and headings throughout. Nice copy of Lambourne's love letter to the Great Salt Lake. "Once the Inland Sea was described as a sullen, listless, deadly sheet of water. Such it is not. On the contrary, however, one must receive with caution, the statements of later writers. Alternately one is captivated by the strange beauty which the place presents, or repelled by the ugliness that is seen along its shores." - Alfred Lambourne. $75 G.A.R. Encampment Salt Lake View Book 1- Thomas & Lynch. The Official Souvenir of the Forty-third National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Salt Lake City, Utah: August Nine to Fourteen, Nineteen Hundred Nine. Salt Lake City: The Century Printing Company, 1909. First Edition. [48] pp. Oblong quarto [23 cm x 31 cm] Tan printed wrappers. Near fine. Excellent pictorial souvenir filled with turn of the century images of Salt Lake City with portraits of local officials and leaders of the LDS Church. Short two-page introduction is followed by 38 pages of captioned shots, a handful of pages dedicated to explanatory text. A page of Salt Lake City facts at the end. Images of Liberty Park, Wandamere, Saltair, Lagoon, Federal Heights, Commercial Club, All Hollows College, University of Utah, Utah State, the Salt Palace and others. Nice double-page panorama of Salt Lake at the center. $125 Real Photo Post Card of Lava Hot Springs 2- [Idaho]. No. 4 Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. (c.1922). Real photo postcard [9 cm x 14 cm] Divided back. Message on reverse in ink with a Lava Hot Springs postmark dated May 22, 1922. Gentle overall wear. "Lava Hot Springs, Ida. May 22nd 1922. Dear Father, Arrived here alright and am doing quite well, how is everything at home. Lava is the same old place. Am staying at the Cottage Hotel. Excuse me for not writing sooner. Please send my Bank report when you write. W.C. Carson." Card is addressed to Mr. Wm. H. Carson of Fairfield, Utah. Bird's eye view of Lava Hot Springs, showing Main Street with the Portneuf River meandering through the background. $20 Prohibition Work Inscribed by Heber J. Grant. 4- [Grant, Heber J.] [Prohibition] Hanly, J. Frank & Oliver Wayne Stewart. Speeches of the Flying Squadron. Indianapolis, IN: Hanly & Stewart, [1915]. First Edition. 420pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Backstrip gently faded. Prohibition work inscribed by President Heber J. Grant, who was the leader of the LDS Church during the time of Prohibition and a known teetotaler. This is not a work that we have encountered signed by Grant previously, who is known to have signed many, many books. "Eugene Hilton with Best Wishes Yours Sincerely Heber J. Grant. Oakland, Calif. Nov. 9/31." This work that was published to promote the works of the 'Flying Squadron' who barnstormed the country in 1914-1915 to warn the masses of the evils of liquor. The work begins with a list of the places and dates where speeches were offered and by whom. Followed by fifteen different profiles of and speeches by, 'The Flying Squadron.' Each profile contains a full-page portrait, the fifteen are: Ella A. Boole, Eugene W. Chafin, Carolyn E. Geisel, Frank J. Hanly, Clinton N. Howard, Ira Landrith, John B. Lewis, Daniel A. Polling, Charles Scanlon, Charles M. Sheldon, Wilbur Fletcher Sheridan, Ella Seass Stewart, Oliver W. Stewart, Culla J. Vayhinger and Clarence True Wilson. "We stand for the abolition of the liquor traffic. On this issue we fight. Whenever a politician or an executive officer, or a political party prefers the liquor traffic above the public morals, such men must be set aside and such parties abandoned. To the accomplishment of this high purpose we dedicate ourselves." - verso of the Index page. $65 Commemorative Card for Jacksonville, Florida Ward House 5- [Southern States Mission]. Latter-day Saints' Church at Jacksonville, Fla. [Jacksonville, FL]: [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], [1905]. Card [12 cm x 10.5 cm] printed in black ink. Poor with moisture staining and damage to the image. Image of the Jacksonville Ward House with a group of five men standing in front, these men are identified on the reverse as those who did the carpentry work on the building. The reverse contains a short history of the financing and construction of the building. "In the fall of 1904 the Elders and Saints of Jacksonville, Florida, having for a long time felt the lack of a suitable place in which to worship the Lord, decided to make an effort to obtain aid from the Saints in various parts of the Conference and erect a meeting-house." Rare. We locate a single institutional holding (LDS CHL) Not listed in OCLC. Not in Flake/Draper. $30 The Knutsford 6- The Knutsford. Salt Lake City and Environment (Read Carefully). [Salt Lake City]: (c.1902). [4]pp. Single sheet [15 cm x 15 cm] Better than very good. Short promotional piece for the then recently opened Knutsford Hotel with a brief mention (with photo) of the Angelus Hotel (Los Angeles) that was also owned by the proprietor of the Knutsford, G.S. Holmes. "Salt Lake City is the most interesting place in America at this time. It lies nearly one mile above the sea, and the air is dry and invigorating, bringing color to the cheeks and making the blood tingle in the veins. The Great Salt Lake, the Mormon Temple and Tabernacle are the three American wonders, and are worth miles of travel to see and enjoy. A few days' stay in 'Zion,' the 'City of the Saints,' will repay any one for the time and money spent." $25 The Townsend House 7- Savage, Charles Roscoe. Townsend House. Salt Lake City: C.R. Savage, (c.1870). Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange/gray mount [10 cm x 17.5 cm] with a printed paper label on the reverse. Strong contrasts. Minor rubbing to corners. Image shows a large group of people in front of the Townsend House, which is in profile. The paper label on the reverse reads: “Views of the Great West, from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, taken by C.R. Savage, Salt Lake City, Utah Series. Townsend House." The Townsend House was located at 102 south and West Temple in Salt Lake City. $150 Temple Construction and Tabernacle Savage, Charles Roscoe. West Side of Salt Lake City, From Arsenal Hill, looking South-west. Oquirrh, or West Mountains in the Distance [Temple Construction] [Mormon Tabernacle]. Salt Lake City: C.R. Savage, (c.1870). Stereoview. Albumen photograph [8.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange/light blue mount [9 cm x 17 cm] with a printed paper label on the reverse. Mount and image in near fine condition. Image has strong contrasts. Nice image shows the newly completed Tabernacle at the center adjacent to footings, poles and the beginnings of the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple. Printed paper label on the reverse reads: "Views of the Great West from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, taken by C.R. Savage, Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah Series. West Side of Salt Lake City, From Arsenal Hill. Looking South-West, Oquirrh, or West Mountains in the Distance." $200 Salt Lake Temple Architectural View 9- [Savage, Charles Roscoe]. [Salt Lake Temple]. [Salt Lake City: Pioneer Art Gallery], (c.1870). Stereoview. Albumen photograph [8.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange/light blue mount [9 cm x 17 cm]. Mount and image in near fine condition. Image has strong contrasts. Contemporary manuscript identification on the reverse, "Temple" Image of an architect's drawing of a completed Salt Lake Temple that was offered for sale more than a decade before the dedication. $75 Completed Tabernacle 10- [Savage, Charles Roscoe]. [Salt Lake Tabernacle]. [Salt Lake City]: [Pioneer Art Gallery], (c.1870). Stereoview. Albumen photograph [8.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange/light blue mount [9 cm x 17 cm]. Mount and image in near fine condition. Image has strong contrasts. Crisp image of the newly finished Salt Lake Tabernacle with the Endowment House visible in the background. $100 The Other ‘Space Jam’ 11- [Malone, Karl]. Karl Malone: The Mailman. [Salt Lake City?]: Allstar Arena Entertainment, 1998. Issue 1. [34pp] Quarto [25.5 cm] Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Issue #1 (of 1?) of this amazing story featuring one of the greatest basketball players of all time! The story begins with Malone trying to free a trapped eagle and, in the process, becoming trapped in ice only to be revived in the future, where he dons a space suit, smashes stuff and defeats evil. This is bananas. $40 Morgan Trail Map 12- Morgan, Dale L. Utah Historical Trails Map: The Routes of Explorers, Early Wayfarers, and Immigrant Trails Depicted in Relation to the Modern Highway System of the States.