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Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We also purchase and appraise books. Our specialties include Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, B. Traven, Utah and the Mormons, Modern First Editions, Grand Canyon, Colorado River & Colorado Plateau, Western Americana, Native Americans, The Intermountain West, Southwest, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Wilderness & National Parks, Public Lands, the Environment, Explorations & Surveys, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and the Literary West.
CD. Recording of Charles Bukowski's appearance in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Underwater Poetry Festival in 1974. Never before released reading by Bukowski consisting of 29 separate poems. Bukowski read at the One Big Union Bar on State Street one day, and at the Social Workers Auditorium on the campus of the University of Utah the next day. The Underwater Poetry Festival was the brainchild of Charles Potts of Litmus. Please note this is a CD only, there is no book publication.
New. 776pp. Octavo. [21cm]; black and white illustrated wraps. Thomas Pynchon's literary masterpiece. "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II"-The New Republic. New book with no flaws. Deluxe Edition.
Description: 213 pp. Octavo. Maroon illustrated cloth. Very good in a very good condition. Corners of jacket show subtle nicking with minor loss. Illustrated. Jacket is bright. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Leather bound
Publisher: Andrew Jenson History Co, Salt Lake City
Date published: 1914
Description: 827 pp. Octavo. 3/4 maroon leather over maroon cloth. Illustrated. Index. Very good. Light rubbing to corners with some minor chipping. 1, 182 biographies of prominent men and women in the LDS Church. Includes numerous portraits in addition to the biographies. Massive and highly sought after volume in Jenson's four volume LDS Biographical encyclopedia series. Flake 4413. Read More
Edition: Volume VI
Binding: Leather bound
Publisher: National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C
Date published: 1895
Description: 239-284 pp. Octavo. Rebound in a contemporary 3/4 leather over blue boards. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Original orange wrappers slightly discolored. History of Oregon by then Senator Mitchell. Original National Geographic attractively bound. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date published: 2001
Description: 325 pp. Octavo. 1/2 gold cloth over yellow boards. Fine/Fine. Warmly inscribed by the author to Terry Tempest Williams on the half title. Inscription reads ' 4.6.01-For Terry-In sisterhood and friendship-to my-spirit-comadre. -In memory-of the-Pedros-we-known. -Denise Chavez-Phoenix" Also inscribed by Williams on the front free endsheet. Inscription reads "Terry Tempest Williams-Arizona Book Festival-7 April 01". On the rear free endsheet Williams has wrote "Long Live My Disgrace! " title of ... Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Utah State University Press, Logan, UT
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780874216394ISBN:0874216397
Description: As NEW. Tan cloth spine and boards. "This first thorough survey of Utah's mining history provides overviews of the geology, economic history, and folklore of mining in the state; recounts the development of a selection of historically significant minerals, such as coal, salines, and uranium; and includes region-by-region histories of Utah's mining booms and busts." Dust Jacket. Read More
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. / Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, UT
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780879052089ISBN:0879052082
Description: As NEW. 201 page collection of cowboy poetry with illustrations throughout. New book with no flaws. Read More
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140431490ISBN:0140431497
Description: As NEW. Handsome reissue of Defoe classic with cover art by Peter Lely. Wraps. 404 pages plus B&W map of London in rear of book. New with no flaws. Read More
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, New York
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780810959279ISBN:0810959275
Description: Very good. Oblong pictorial boards quarterbound in red publisher's buckram spine. Very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tip of the lower rear corner. 1" tear in the lower edge of the rear board. Picture book presentation with illustrations on the right hand side and text on opposing pages. From the author of the bestselling "The Time Traveler's Wife." No dust jacket. Read More
