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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 346+16pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Yellow pebbled cloth. Wear to corners and sunning to backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown and name blind stamped on the front free endsheet. Otherwise very good. Chandless crossed the plains as a wagon driver in the summer of 1855, departing from Atchison in July and arriving in Salt Lake City on the first of November. The long description of Utah and the Mormons is based on his stay of two months, before departing for California through southern Utah and Nevada: "Los Vegos [sic] stands in the middle of a valley some thirty-five miles wide, and of considerable length, its lower end opening on the Colorado." - p.293 The fold-out 'Map shewing [sic] the Author's Route' is present at the front of the volume. which Carl Wheat noted was "One of the few 'Mormon Maps' disclosing the route southwest of Salt Lake City past Nephi, Fillmore and Cedar City and thence by desert, to southern California." Wagner/Camp 287. Howes C286. Flake/Draper 1252. Wheat 910. Eberstadt 128: 171.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce Good with ex-contemporary private school library bookplate and small label on front pastedown. No additional library marks. Spine and edges are faded and lightly bumped, and front cover has tiny green spots. Short, closed tear in head of spine. Rear cover has a half-inch, small dark stain. Cracked hinges and lightly creased endsheets. Contemporary owner's name and additional notes in pencil on front and rear free endsheets. Foldout Map Shewing the Author's Routes is lightly creased. Pages have light foxing. Tiny bookbinder's label on rear pastedown
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 346pp Octavo [20.5 cm] Pebbled orange cloth. With a folding map showing the author's route bound in at title page. Very good. Heavy sunning to backstrip. Extremities rubbed. Corners bumped. An early and valuable firsthand account of a journey to the land of the Mormons and a two months' residence there during 1855-1856. The author traveled overland from St. Joseph, Missouri to Salt Lake City, and then on to California only a year prior to the ill-fated Fancher train and their eventual massacre at Mountain Meadows. Flake/Draper 1252. Howes C286. Wagner/Camp 287:1. Scallawagiana 55. Wheat 910.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Orange pebbled boards with gilt lettering on spine; includes a fold out map showing the author's route, bound in before the title page. Contemporary manuscript on title page reading: "1840 - John Coventry, Hackney, 1858" along with his bookplate on front pastedown. 346pp plus 16pp publisher's advertisements at rear. Boards are slightly cocked and have heavy sunning, top edge of spine is chipped, binding is loose; pastedowns and endpapers have light soiling; map is creased; text block has light toning. A firsthand account of the author who, with no previous experience, is hired to drive ox-teams across the plains from St. Joseph, Missouri. His account also covers his residence in Utah Territory between the years 1855-56. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 346 pp
Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Folding map of author's route. xii, 346pp. + 16pp. of publisher's ads. Small 8vo, original orange cloth, head of spine lightly worn, cloth lightly soiled, corners bumped, several pages creased on right side of text, several pages creased in right margins, light foxing to publisher's ads. London: Smith, Elder, 1857. First Edition From the library of Thomas W. Streeter with his bookplate. "Chandless crossed the plains as a wagon driver in the summer of 1855, departing from Atchison in July and arriving at Salt Lake City on the first of November. The long description of Salt Lake and the Mormons is based on this stay of two months. In January 1856 he set out for California by way of Fillmore, Cedar City, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles." Wagner-Camp 287:1. "This Chandless Visit is included because of Carl Wheat's comment (Trans-Mississippi West, Vol IV, p. 63) that his journal from Salt Lake City to California on the desert trail is a scarce account and his map `a document of importance for this feature'-Thomas W. Streeter." Streeter Sale 2299. Flake 1252. Howes C-286. Cowan p. 113.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.