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Salt Lake City: Intermountain Tourist Supply, Inc, 1960. [28pp]. Oblong octavo [15.5 cm x 23 cm] Spiral bound wrappers. Very good. Contains fourteen color images with captions and illustrations on the facing pages. "To the traveler who seeks the natural beauty of the West at its finest, the rugged cliffs and canyons, the brilliant colors, and the vast virgin forests of southern Utah's National Parks and Arizona's Grand Canyon beckon with an impelling force.

Provo: N.L. Nelson, 1904. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4. 412pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Complete run of this quarterly magazine, owned and edited by N. L. Nelson, professor of English, Brigham Young University, to apply theology to daily living. Inscribed by the editor on the front pastedown: "To my dear friend Elsie C. Carroll - N.L. Nelson, Provo, May 13, 1918." Flake/Draper 5527.

Reno: Harolds Club, 1950. Map [71 cm x 56 cm] / [28" x 22"] printed on a single sheet in three colors. Pinholes at the corners with a few faint smudges. Map showing the historic overland routes through Nevada, beginning with the Dominguez and Escalante expedition of 1776 and through to the [Howard] Egan Mormon Trail of 1855. Also locates: Walker-Bonneville route (1833); Bidwell-Bartleson route (1841) Fremont route (1843); Walker-Chiles route (1843); Stevens-Murphy-Townsend route (1844); Kern-Walker route (1845); Applegate Cut-off (1846); Donner Party (1846); Lassen Cut-off (1848); Noble Road (1851); Beckwourth Road (1851).

Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Office, 1870. First Edition. 21pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Lacks wrappers. Small withdrawn stamp at foot of title page. About very good. This short work recounts the debate held at the Tabernacle on August 12, 13, and 14, 1870, between John Philip Newman, who was at the time Chaplain of the United States Senate and one of the foremost preachers of Washington, D.C, and the Apostle Orson Pratt, on plural marriage. Newman's appearance in Salt Lake City to debate the question of polygamy was a national topic. Probably never before, nor since, has so much been said in such a short time by non-Mormon presses on a question respecting Mormonism. Flake/Draper 5807.

Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1947. Fifth Printing. 372pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed by Nibley on the front free endsheet: "To Cannon Lund / with best wishes / Preston Nibley / Dec 25, 1947.

Saint Paul, MN: Great Northern Railway Company, 1939. Pictorial color map. [80 cm x 68 cm] / [31.5" x 27"] Bright and in nice condition. Folds as issued. Nice pictorial map of this international park that straddles the American/Canadian border in the area of northwestern Montana and southern Alberta. Reverse offers information for the prospective visitor that is illustrated with black and white views. The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is the union of Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada and Glacier National Park in the United States. Both parks are declared Biosphere Reserves by UNESCO and their union as a World Heritage Site.

Anchorage, AK: Pacific Northern Airlines, The Alaska Flag Line, 1950. Color poster [91 cm x 61 cm] / [36" x 24"]. Crease at lower left, otherwise nice. Colors are vibrant and 'pop.'. Promotional poster from Pacific Northern Airlines advertising their service to Alaska, that features a montage of illustrations depicting skiers, a carved and painted totem, a fisherman in action, and a bear on its hind legs. In 1932 Arthur G. Woodley founded Woodley Airways flying routes across Alaska. In 1945, Woodley changed the name to Pacific Northern Airways and moved the company headquarters to Seattle. In 1951, Pacific Northern Airways was able to start running regular flights between Seattle and Anchorage, and continued to operate these and its routes within Alaska until it was taken over by Western Airlines in 1967. Western Airlines continued to offer flights under the Pacific Northern Airlines branding through the early 1970s.