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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$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.
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.