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Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 178 pages; Some rubbing and wear mostly along the spine.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buckram binding cover shows minor wear and rubbing. A bit of minor writing and scribbles in the prelims, pages show a bit of minor annotation.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 178 pages; A little light rubbing to covers, mostly along spine area. Bookplate and name on inside front cover.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Kelly, Charles. Salt Desert Trails. Western Printing Company, Salt Lake City, 1930.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light general wear with inscription to the top of the title page. Otherwise bright and clean. 178 pages.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stiff paper board, not truly paperbound and not a hardback. Owner's name in longhand ink at top of blank page after ffep and before TP. Illustrated with photographs. 178 pages + index. The Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California.
Seller: Lee Booksellers, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 178 pages, plus index. Covers show light scuffs. Small Booksellers stick at lower edge of bottom paste down. Volume remains tight and is otherwise very clean and intact.
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
KELLY, Charles.. Salt Desert Trails.. Western Printing, Salt Lake City, 1930.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 178 pp. 8vo, publisher's pebbled cloth. First edition. Howes K-59. Touch of wear to head of spine; but a very nice copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Kelly. Salt Desert Trails. Western Printing Co. January 1930, 1930.
Price: US$124.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by author with inscription 'To My Friend Bill' on first free end page. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Rubbing to edges. Cloth showing through on corners and edges of spine. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto in dark green blind-stamped 'pebbled' and illus boards; 5 preliminary leaves, [15]-178, [3] pages illustrations, portraits, facsimile 24 cm. Maps on lining-papers; bibliographical references. An impressively crisp copy. / Pioneers -- Utah. Trails -- West (U.S.) Pionniers -- Utah. Discoveries in geography. Pioneers. Trails. Named Person: Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870. Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870. Great Salt Lake (Utah) United States -- Discovery and exploration. Salé, Grand lac (Utah) United States. West United States. Utah. Utah -- Great Salt Lake. Fine ; nearly as new but with two small circular areas of mild discoloration to bottom edge of textblock not affecting marginsPlease see photos. No jacket.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California. Kelly, Charles. Western Printing, Salt Lake City, 1930. 178p. + index. flexible embossed green leather covers very lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked--SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO MR. W. J. WILLIAMS--160.00
Seller: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
KELLY, Charles. Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early. , 1930.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: KELLY, Charles. Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California. Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. 1st ed. Illus., map endpapers. 178,[3, index]pp. Orig. flexible pictorial cloth. Near fine. Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper, "To my good friends Gus and Alice from Charles Kelly, Christmas 1930."HOWES K59.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Inscribed by author to an unknown person, name carefully removed, with tipped in photo of author on second page
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 178,pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Original pebbled brown boards with a green, gilt and blind stamped title, wagon and pioneer design on the front cover. Good/Near fine. Remnants of the scarce dust jacket remain. Attractive period book plate on front pastedown. Otherwise in nice, clean condition. A great work on the different explorers and groups that crossed the Salt Flats,from the earliest nineteenth century. Includes accounts on Jedediah Smith, Bartleson, Fremont, Clyman, the ill-fated Donner Party, Stansbury and early twentieth century motor travel. "The Great Salt Lake in its present state extends seventy-five miles north and south, with an approximate width an approximate width of fifty miles. To the west lies a great desolate expand called the Salt Desert, with a length of one hundred miles and a width of seventy-five. This great level salt plain was in geologically recent times a part of the Great Salt Lake, and even now lies only a few feet above high water mark. The Salt Desert is the floor of what was once the larger half of the Salt Lake, into which no stream flows. Evaporation has removed the surface water, leaving only a great level expanse of mud and salt. No vegetation grows upon its surface, no fresh water enters it, and as far as the eye can see there is nothing but the apparently illimitable expanse of salt-plain." - Charles Kelly. Flake/Draper 4565, Howes K59.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very-good+ /near fine, signed, first edition Author's signature dated 1930 on first blank leaf. Green pictorial limp leatherette cover with green and gilt stamping of a pioneer wagon, and author's name embossed at foot of cover. Minor shelfwear at corners, head and tail of spine, and along spine edges where the book has ben opened and read. Western map endpapers. Pages show only the mildest toning. Binding is sturdy and sound. No tears, no soiling. Charles Kelly's first book, interesting for California and American history and the opening of the West, including the Donner Party tragedy. 2 previous owner's signatures on title page. The previous owner's signature is CF Hartmeyer, "a grandson of the last member of the Donner party to be rescued." (p 145) 178 pp. plus index. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall. [Howes K59, Flake-Draper 4565, Paher K1020].
Seller: Uncommon Works, Gridley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Author's first book. Signed by the author on the front preliminary sheet. Decorated green fabricoid, maps on endpapers, 178 [5] pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, plates, portraits, index. A great work on the different explorers and groups that crossed the Salt Flats. Includes accounts on Jedediah Smith, Bartleson, Fremont, Clyman, the ill-fated Donner Party, Stansbury and early twentieth century motor travel. "Kelly was a 20th century historian who took the time to check the 19th century accounts against the trails and locations. Valuable contribution to the history of the trail and is essential to both student and collector. The Smith, Hastings, Bartleson, Fremont, Russell, Harlan and Donner overland parties receive careful factual documentation in this important study."---Peter Decker. Fine, bright copy.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.