BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS RARE BOOK CATALOGUE NO. 20 1 Item No. 200 Item No. 201 Item No. 202 Item No. 203 2 RARE BOOK CATALOGUE NO. 20 NOVEMBER 2018 83 North Main Street • Moab, UT 84532 (435) 259-5154 • (800) 700-2859 [email protected] FrontItem cover No. 212 image: Item No. Back cover Itemimage: No. Item 40 No. 1 You are reading the 20th Rare Book Catalogue published by Back of Beyond Books—A Score of Catalogues! We lead off with our specialties of Western Exploration and the Colorado River and Western Americana followed by Native Americana and Mormon History. Due to the success of Promotional Travel Guides and Trade Catalogs in Catalogue #19, we feature new favorites in this catalogue. Special selections in the fields of Art, Photography, Literature and Poetry, The Natural World and Its Defenders, and Americana are also featured. With perhaps one or two exceptions, all the material in Catalogue #20 is newly-acquired. Highlights include a rare serialization documenting the Kolb Brothers’ journey down the Green and Colorado Rivers in 1911-12 (item 4), a superb collection of USGS photo negatives from the early 20th century (item 30), a near-pristine copy of one of the scarcest surfing titles, The Art of Wave Riding by Ron Drummond (item 34), and a previously unrecorded Lincoln item (item 38). For rail enthusiasts we offer Denver & Rio Grande photos from Disney animator Ward Kimball (item 73), and a collection of turn of the century albumen prints from the Colorado Midland Railway (item 74). Item 94 features a collection of Dakota Language ephemera from the Santee Normal Training School. In photography, we feature a scarce 1903 copy of L.C. Henrichson’s Portland Oregon—From Heights West of the City Looking East, a Panoramic View (item 120). Item 204 is a phenomenal diary kept by Rev. George Pannebecher recording sermons preached throughout his 50 year career in the pulpit. Item 241 features an iconic Santa Fe Railway poster, and item 271 preserves a salesman’s sample kit from the Royal Tailors. Enjoy browsing, Andy Nettell Item No. 22 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS The book trade lost several greats in 2018: Section 1: WESTERN EXPLORATION and the COLORADO RIVER ......... 5 • In honor of Bill Dailey, the esteemed and kind southern California dealer of science, Section 2: WESTERN AMERICANA .................................... 21 medicine, and printing, we offer item 72, his re-print of Gustave Section 3: NATIVE AMERICANA ...................................... 45 Baumann’s Frijoles Canyon Pictographs. Section 4: MORMON HISTORY ........................................ 51 • We also lost Michael Thompson Section 5: PHOTOGRAPHY ............................................ 57 who followed Jake Zeitlin’s footsteps to southern California Section 6: ART ........................................................ 75 and became a dean of California dealers. Section 7: LITERATURE and POETRY ................................... 81 • Bill Reese, perhaps the most knowledgeable bookman in our Section 8: THE NATURAL WORLD and ITS DEFENDERS ................ 87 time in the field of Americana also passed. Bill leaves a legacy Section 9: AMERICANA ............................................... 93 of scholarship which will rarely be matched. Section 10: PROMOTIONALS ......................................... 115 In bits and pieces I’ve learned the trade Section 11: TRADE CATALOGS ....................................... 123 from colleagues and mentors such as Bill, Michael, and Bill, for which I am eternally grateful. I will miss seeing Section 12: LAST MINUTE ACQUISITIONS . 133 them at the numerous rare book fairs throughout the country. References; Terms and Conditions ....................................... 140 Cover image: Item No. 74. 3 Item No. 13 4 Section 1: Item Numbers: 1. [ALPINE EXPLORATION] Forbes, James D. Norway and Its Glaciers Visited in 1851; Followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of 1 to 30 Dauphine, Berne, and Savoy. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, WESTERN EXPLORATION WESTERN EXPLORATION 1853. Small 4to 9” - 11” tall. 343pp. Hardcover. Good. Brown blind-embossed cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; both maps and all lithographic plates present; includes errata sheet. Boards have moderate soiling, light wear to all edges and moderate chipping to head and the and foot of spine; text block has light foxing and soiling; some plates have light toning but colors are still bright. A classic in alpine exploration. Neate 276. 016492. $375 and the COLORADO RIVER Section 1: WESTERN EXPLORATION COLORADO RIVER 5 5 Section 1: WESTERN EXPLORATION and the COLORADO RIVER 2. [COLORADO RIVER] Bass, William Wallace. Adventures 3. [COLORADO AND GREEN RIVERS] Kelly, Charles. in the Canyons of the Colorado By Two of its Earliest Mysterious “D. Julien” - Utah Historical Quarterly, Explorers, James White and W.W. Hawkins. Volume 6, Number 3, July, 1933. Grand Canyon, Arizona, William Wallace Bass, 1920. First edition 8vo 7 ¾”-9 Salt Lake City, UT, Utah State 3/4”. 38pp. Pamphlet. Very Good. Historical Society, 1933. 8vo 8” - 9” tall. 31pp. Pamphlet. Very Good. Soft cover pamphlet is lightly creased and rubbed, especially to the edges of Signed by author. Gray staple-bound wraps. Black text with gold imprint on front. Interior clean. In newer protective wrappers with light toning and hard burgundy slipcase. Self-published by the authors. Some monochrome rusting at the staples. Interior clean photos and reproductions of correspondence. By two of the early Grand and tight binding. Signed and dated Canyon explorers James by Kelly above his article on Julien. White and W.W. Hawkins; introduction and notes by early Besides Kelly’s article, this issue Grand Canyon guide William of Utah Historical Quarterly also Wallace Bass, namesake for contains the following articles: Bass Canyon and the North ‘Pahute Indian Homelands’ by and South Bass trails. William William R. Palmer; ‘Map of the Wallace Bass arrived at the Pahute Indian Home Lands’; Grand Canyon in 1883 and ‘Chipeta, Queen of the Utes, and her soon began guiding tourists, equally illustrious husband, noted surveyors and photographers Chief Ouray’ by Albert B. Reagan and into the depths of the canyon. Wallace Stark; John Cook’s Journal He started the first school at (concluded). If you’ve ever floated the Grand Canyon and even the Green or Colorado Rivers you built a short-lived hotel on the may have noticed ‘D. Julien’ scratched into the side of the canyon walls, rim. James White remains an and in this article for the UHQ, Kelly put the pieces together for the first enigmatic river figure claiming time in print. “’After about seven miles the trend of the canyon became to have rafted down the more easterly, and we saw the mouth of the Grand [Colorado], the junction Colorado River years before [of the Green with the Grand] that hidden mystery which, unless we count John Wesley Powell. W.W. D. Julien, only nine white men, the Major’s party, had ever seen before Hawkins served as cook on the us.’ Thus wrote Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, historian of Major J. W. Powell’s first Powell expedition in 1869. expeditions down the canyon of the Colorado river in 1869 and 1872.” Howes B-229. 006744. 015164. $200 $55 6 KOLB BROTHERS’ JOURNEY DOWN THE COLORADO AND GREEN RIVERS 4. [COLORADO AND GREEN the Green River to Needles. through Cataract Canyon, RIVERS] Kolb, Ellsworth; Emery The article was titled “Will their discovery of a Attempt Perilous Trip” man stranded but who Kolb; Fred S. Breen. Five Issues of The which led to a regular refused their help, and Coconino Sun 1911. correspondence between that in the end, “their the Coconino Sun and boats and camera’s came Flagstaff, Arizona, Coconino Sun, 1911. the Kolb Brothers. In the through Cataract Canyon Newspaper. Five issues of the Coconino Sun September 8, 1911 issue the successfully.” The last documenting the Kolb brothers’ journey down the brothers mention that they issue included here has Green and Colorado Rivers from 1911 to 1912. The saw the notice in Breen’s quite interesting content, five issues include: May 26, 1911, Volume XXVIII, newspaper concerning their including an update that Number 26; September 8, 1911, Volume XXVIII, “contemplated trip for still the Kolb Brothers reached Number 41; October 20, 1911, Volume XXVII, and motion pictures through the Grand Canyon “tired Number 47; November 17, 1911, Volume XXVIII, the Green and Colorado and wet, but happy,” an Number 51; November 24, 1911, Volume XXVIII, Rivers.” They go on to say article concerning the Number 52. The set does not include the last issue they have all their supplies Prohibitionists on the State referring to the Kolb brothers’ journey, dated to and are ready to go but that Ticket, another about a January 26, 1912. Issues have between 8pp to 12pp, “the town people here look “Water Wizzard [sic] Well many advertisements and a full page of illustrated on us as a physician might a Worker,” and a rather cattle brands (around 58 brands). Included on the hopeless case and then relate ridiculous article about a brand page of each issue is the brand illustration wierd [sic] stories of others group of Oatman, Arizona on the animal, written description of the brand, who attempted the voyage bachelors proposing and range area of the herd, along with a horse and never heard from again.” marriage en masse to 250 brand chart. Prominent owner names include In the October 20, 1911 issue widows of Santa Monica, Babbitt, Hart, and Verkamp. Issues measure the article was titled “Making the article titled “These between 13” x 20” to 15” x 21 ½”. In good Perilous Jorney [sic]- Kolb Brothers Write Last from Bachelors Want Wives.” Ellsworth and Emory Kolb condition. All issues are fragile with toning and Jensen, Utah on Way Down Colorado,” the author completed their journey in January 1912, emerging tape repairs, chipped edges and some margin loss; of the article continuing with the theme of the from the Grand Canyon with photographs and all leaves are disbound, likely extracted from a “perilous journey.” And so it was, for in this issue films that they would show for the next sixty years.