Search Results: salt desert trails a history of by charles kelly

Western Printing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Good. . 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.

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Flexible covers. 8vo; 178 pages; Some rubbing and wear mostly along the spine. .

Salt Lake City, UT: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 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.

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Flexible covers. 8vo; 178 pages; A little light rubbing to covers, mostly along spine area. Bookplate and name on inside front cover. .

Western Publishing Co., 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Embossed cloth, a near fine copy. First edition. Howes K59. Flake 4565.

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 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.. 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.

Western Epics, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION; #43 OF 128 COPIES; SIGNED BY AUTHOR!

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 Co., 1930. 1st ed. Illus. 178pp. plus index. Orig. cloth. Howes K-59.

1930. 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.

Western Printing Company, 1930. Very Good. 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, UT: Western Printing Company, 1930. 1st edition. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Inscribed by author to an unknown person, name carefully removed, with tipped in photo of author on second page.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Leatherette. Very Good +. 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].

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930., 1930. First edition. 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.