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Wallace Stegner Along with Over 60 Items of Exciting Americana Books and Ephemera BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS - CATALOGUE NO. 18 FEATURED ITEM: OUTSTANDING FRAMED SANTA FE CALENDAR ITEM #212. [SANTA FE RAILROAD CALENDAR]. Visit the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1909. (See page 73.) Catalogue #18 returns to our specialties of the American West including the Grand Can- yon and the Colorado River, Western Americana and Native Americana. We’re also featur- ing books by and from the library of Wallace Stegner along with over 60 items of exciting Americana Books and Ephemera. Smaller collections of Mormon History, Literature, Signed Mountaineering, Pocket Maps, Sheet Music and the ever-present Miscellaneous are included. Highlights include a one-of-a-kind archive on the study of John Wesley Powell’s brain, a rare signed copy of Clyde Kluckhohn’s Beyond the Rainbow, and a fabulous collection of lantern slides from the 1923 Birdseye Survey of the Colorado River. From the family of Wallace Stegner, we offer 7 research volumes used by Stegner while researching Beyond RARE BOOK CATALOGUE the Hundredth Meridian, plus a selection of titles from his personal library. Our Western NO. 18 - DECEMBER 2016 Americana collection includes a wonderfully folky manuscript letter from a miner/poet/ artist prospecting in Nevada in 1907, a super-rare Colorado Midland broadside discovered inside the wall of an Aspen, CO restaurant in 1969, several Jose Posada broadsides from Mexico and the hard-to-find Handbook to Arizona by Hinton with map. The rare Colora- 83 N. Main St. do imprint by Dawson and Skiff on the Ute War lead the Native Americana section along Moab, UT 84532 with a very nice John Hillers view of Zuni Pueblo. (435) 259-5154 - (800) 700-2859 Several unique Illinois imprints including the first 8 issues of the Illinois Monthly from [email protected] 1830 kick off the Americana section, along with my favorite -- the 102” pennant shaped www.backofbeyondbooks.com chromolithographic poster advertising Samuel F. Cody’s tour of Europe in 1894. We also present two fabulous Civil War manuscript diaries along with several Lincoln imprints. While I’ve always derived pleasure from fine books and ephemera, I find myself lingering with and enjoying books and art more so than ever in this new post-election world. To me, these cultural artifacts are not only vital to our understanding of our history and culture, but also provide a calming balm in an uncertain time; the perfect form of escape. -Andy Nettell 1 TABLE of Contents ITEMS/SECTIONS PAGE ITEMS/SECTIONS PAGE Items 1-47 Items 216-277 Section 1: COLORADO RIVER/PLATEAU & THE GRAND CANYON 3 Section 8: AMERICANA 75 Items 48-54 Items 278-287 Section 2: BEYOND THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN 19 Section 9: LITERATURE 99 Items 55-77 Items 288-303 Section 3: STEGNER LIBRARY 21 Section 10: MOUNTAINEERING 103 Items 78-91 Items 304-324 Section 4: WALLACE STEGNER 29 Section 11: MISCELLANEOUS 109 Items 92-172 Items 325-346 Section 5: WESTERN AMERICANA 33 Section 12: POCKET MAps 115 Items 173-181 Items 347-360 Section 6: MORMON 59 Section 13: SHEET MUSIC 121 Items 182-215 Section 7: NATIVE AMERICANA 63 REFERENCES CiteD AND TERms & ConDitions 125 COVER Image: ITEM #35 (PAGE 15-16) CLICK ON PAGE NUMBER LINKS TO JUMP FRont INNER COVER Image: ITEM #212 (PAGE 73) DIRECTLY TO SPECIFIC PAGES/SECTIONS. REAR INNER COVER Image: ITEM #196 (PAGE 67) 2 SECTION 1: COLORADO RIVER/PLATEAU & THE GRAND CANYON 1. ALESON, Harry L. To Ye River Rats (Invitation for Emery Kolb). Boulder City, Nevada: 1945. First Edition. (22.5 x 5.5”). Scroll-style sheet printed on one side, with fold splits and dampstains, Good. A remarkable invitation listing over 100 early Colorado river rats, from legendary river runner Harry LeRoy Aleson. "To Ye River Rats / You are cordially invited by the undersigned river rat to a colored motion picture showing, entitled: Adventures of Colorado Up River Expedition / Time: February 16, 1945, 6: 00 P. M. / Place: Sierra Club Dinner (upstairs) 530 South Hill St. , Los Angeles / Fee: Your cafeteria dinner check only...." Mentions most of the invitees had run the San Juan and Colorado Rivers during 1939-1945, and telling them to leave life preservers, hip boots, etc., at home. Lists many well-known river runners, including Bill Wilson, Georgia White, Julius Stone, Otis Marston, Buzz Holmstrom, the Nevills, Randall Henderson, Don Harris, Barry Goldwater, William Bass, Charles Kelly, and more. Emery Kolb's name is not on the list, but at the end is a handwritten note under Aleson's signature: "Emery K.: Wish we might have rivermen like you, Ellsworth, + Lauzon with us at the dinner," referring to Ellsworth Kolb and Bert Lauzon. Aleson shot film footage on many trips. By the time of this movie event in February, 1945 he had managed to uprun the Colorado from Boulder Dam to 217 Mile Rapid, on various trips starting in 1941. The next month, in March 1945, he traveled upriver by motorboat from Lee's Ferry to Hite through Glen Canyon. A scarce item, no records of other copies of this invitation found. $300 2. BELKNAP, Bill and Frances. Gunnar Widforss: Painter of the Grand Canyon. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press,1969. Limited Edition, signed by both authors, numbered 9/100, with a printed sketch on the limitation page by George Collins. Hardcover. (11 x 9.5”). 86 pp. Brown patterned paper boards, leather spine, gilt imprint, housed in matching slipcase. Laid in are two pieces from the publisher, both illustrated in color: an order form and a catalog list for an exhibition of Wid- forss, Aug. 17 through Sept. 28, 1969 at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Catalog has slight creases. Fine. Swedish artist Gunnar Widforss (1890-1934) was best known for his watercolors of Grand Canyon and other national parks. Personal remembrances and full-page color reproductions of his paintings illustrate photographs of the Canyon by Bill and Frances Belknap. $575 3. BOULDER DAM ASSOCIATION. Story of a Great Government Project for the Conquest of the Colorado River. L. A.: Boulder Dam Assoc., 1928. 8vo. 31 pp. Tan stapled wraps, brown imprint on front. Map tipped-in at rear, no tears. Very Good. Propaganda in full-swing, “...this untamed river has been the natural enemy of man.” Includes folding map of the Colorado River Drain- age Basin Below Green River, UT from 1925, listing 28 alternative dam sites within this drainage area. First time we've handled this item. $175 3 ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH UNIQUE ART DRAWN IN 4. [BOULDER DAM]. Complete Boulder Dam Set. 10 Snapshots. 6. DELLENBAUGH, Frederick. Canyon Voyage: the Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down NV: Desert Souvenir Supply. Photographs (2.75 x 4”). In the original the Green-Colorado River...in the Year 1871 and 1872. cardstock folding case with some wear. Circa 1930s. NY: G. P. Putnam's, 1908. First Edition. Inscribed association copy, with interesting 10 black and white snapshots of Boulder Dam and vicinity, including and unique provenance and ephemera. 8vo. 277 pp. Brown pictorial hardcover in the dam at night, Boulder City, and a scenic gorge shot. a most unusual variation with hand coloration of the front design, signed by the $28 author Frederick Dellenbaugh. Base of spine has 1.5" tear which has been repaired. Binding is tight, interior clean. Very Good. Dellenbaugh designed the cover with his initials in the lower corner, but we have never seen his artwork as such on the front this copy. As an added bonus the book includes a hand-colored chapter heading and a hand-colored photo of unknown hand. On the front endpaper is the bookplate of the Authors Club Library, signed by painter and travel writer George Wharton Edwards. Underneath is an undated inscription: "To my dear friend James Howard Bridge with warm regards, F. S. Del- lenbaugh." Bridge was the author of several books about Carnegie Steel Company and, like Dellenbaugh, a member of the Author's Club of NY. On the front flyleaf is another inscription: "What was a mere human life of two in the span of eternity. F. S. Dellenbaugh, New York, April 10, 1915." An orig- inal silver gel photograph (3.25 x 4.25") affixed to the 5. BUTLER, Elias and Tom Myers. Grand Obsession: Har- first free endpaper, under which is written "From the vey Butchart and the Exploration of the Grand Canyon. head of Bright Angel Canyon looking north across the Grand Canyon of which Bright Angel is a tribu- Flagstaff, AZ: Puma Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Person- tary. Taken by F. S. D. In 1903. The total width here ally inscribed on the title page by both authors to Colorado Plateau is about 14 miles at the top and the depth is about booksellers Dan and Diane Cassidy, with their blind stamp also on 6000 ft. The Hotel Tovar is on the opposite rim dimly the title page. Laid in are two newspaper clippings about Butchart. seen in the photograph. F. S. Dellenbaugh Dec. 5th Hardcover. 8vo. 457 pp. Mylared dust jacket over black boards with gilt 1918." A unique, one-of-a-kind copy of this account imprint. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. of Powell's second Colorado River expedition (1871- 73), which the 17-year-old Dellenbaugh was artist Illustrated with many b&w photos and color map endpapers. and assistant topographer. Farquhar 45. $125 $650 SECTION 1: CO RIVER/PLATEAU & GRAND CANYON 4 7. DELLENBAUGH, Frederick. [Frank Bond]. Canyon Voyage: the Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the Green-Colorado River...in the Year 1871 and 1872. New Haven: Yale, 1926. First Edition Thus.
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