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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 91pp. Octavo [25 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over decorative paper boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in a matching slipcase. Both book and slipcase near fine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Uncommon bibliography that was produced in an edition of 160 copies and covers early printing in the Territory, with chapters on the first printings (white notes, First Epistle, Second Epistle); The Deseret News; A bibliography of 42 Territorial press items; a section of facsimile title pages and broadsides; a chapter on early periodicals. "In the record of the spread of printing throughout the United States, one of the conspicuous gaps has been the lack of adequate account of early printing in the State of Utah. While a fair amount of attention has been given to the history of the newspaper and commercial press in other western states, the work of the printers in the home of the Latter-day Saints has been quite overlooked, except for a brief article on the Deseret News and an occasional sentence or paragraph in a few histories of general character." - p.9.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 91pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] in decorative boards over brown cloth gilt-stamped spine; deckled edges. The front board has a small abraded area in the center. Lacks slipcase. Original printing of this very hard to find work, hand-numbered 147 of 160 on limitation page. This copy is inscribed by McMurtrie on the front free endpaper: "To____ with the high esteem of Douglas C. McMurtrie."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Douglas C. McMurtrie. The Beginnings of Printing in Utah. John Calhoun Club, 1931.
Price: US$337.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: decorated boards in decorated slipcase limited edition 1/160 book still tight to open.
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Beginnings of Printing in Utah, With a Bibliograohy of the Issues of the Utah Press 1849-1860. Limited to 160 copies, this copy un- numbered, 91 pages, beautiful publication Book and Slipcase both in near Fine condition, Book is quarter bound brown cloth over brown and tan patterned designed paper, bright gilt titles to spine, near Fine slipcase matches the intricate paper motif boards of book, text hand set in Ludlow Garamond type by Ragner H. Johnson, printed on Italian handmade paper, fore edge and bottom edge left uncut, top edge gleaming gilt. very light previous owner name ghost (erased pencil) on top of first free page, slight binders error with thin separation of first free page (mid page along gutter) from binding in middle of page, page holding tight, else Fine. Detailed account of Mormon publishing from 1849 -1860 with bibliography, section of Illustrations show some Latter Day Saint printed material: card, Ordinances, bulletins and a fold out Deseret News. No previous owner bookplate or writing. A most presentable and outstanding and scarce Fine Press Limited Edition.
Seller: Pacific Coast Books, ABAA,ILAB, Gleneden Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED. 91pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] in decorative boards over brown cloth gilt-stamped spine; deckle edges. Lacks slipcase. Spine cloth heavily dampstained and badly split along front hinge, spine gilt largely effaced; boards themselves are only very lightly worn; some spitting to endpapers, else interior is unmarked. Signed and inscribed by the printer on page following front free endpaper: "To F---- with deep appreciation of his friendship and encouragement. Ragnar H. Johnson, May 12, 1932". Original printing of this very hard to find work, hand-numbered 62 of 160 on limitation page.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, #72 of 160 copies in publisher's brown cloth-backed patterned boards with matching slipcase. Printed on Italian handmade paper. Brown cloth spine with bright gilt title. Deckle page edges, top edge gilt. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. Contains14 illustrations of early printings, including a folding Deseret News (unopened). Text & slipcase bordering near fine. Typography, Western Americana; Samples of printing; 8vo; 91 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 91 pages. Limited edition in a slip case. One of 160 copies of this rare original publication. Book in near fine condition. Light soiling and wear on slip case.
Seller: Pierian Spring Books, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 91pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] in decorative boards over brown cloth gilt-stamped spine, deckle edges, in decorative board slipcase. Includes clear plastic wrapper, very lightly rubbed. Slight rubbing to spine at tips, light rubbing to toned slipcase at extremities, else Fine. Original printing of this very hard to find work, hand-numbered 45 of 160 on limitation page.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 91pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] in decorative boards over brown cloth gilt-stamped spine, deckle edges, in decorative board slipcase. Includes clear plastic wrapper. Slight rubbing to spine at tips, light rubbing to slipcase at extremities, else Fine. Original printing of this very hard to find work, hand-numbered 97 of 160 on limitation page.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Description: One of 160 numbered copies bound in the publisher's original brown quarter cloth and decorated boards, spine stamped in gilt. Some minor soiling to boards and spine. Top edge gilt, bottom and fore edges deckled. Includes 14 facsimile illustrations, including 1 fold out. Annotations in pencil and ocassional ink by previous owner throughout, especially in the bibliography section, otherwise fine. Housed in a matching slipcase with an one inch tear in the decorated paper at the top edge and some soiling, otherwise fine. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.