Search Results: Authors starting with O from Tschanz Rare Books

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1993. First Edition. 297pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. - 'Scientific Foundations of Mormon Theology' by David H. Bailey - 'The New Biology and Mormon Theology' by James L. Farmer, William S. Bradshaw, and F. Brent Johnson - 'The 1911 Evolution Controversy at Brigham Young University' by Gary James Bergera - 'Inner Dialogue: James Talmage's Choice of Science as a Career, 1876-84' by Dennis Rowley - 'A Turbulent Spectrum: Mormon Reactions to the Darwinist Legacy' by Richard Sherlock - 'The B.H. Roberts/Joseph Fielding Smith/James E. Talmage Affair' by Richard Sherlock and Jeffrey E. Keller - 'Harvey Fletcher and Henry Eyring: Men of Faith and Science' by Edward L. Kimball - 'Agreeing to Disagree: Henry Eyring and Joseph Fielding Smith' by Steven H. Heath - 'Seers, Servants, and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface' by Duane E. Jeffrey - 'Organic Evolution and the Bible' by Eldon J. Gardner - 'Fossils and the Scriptures' by Morris S. Petersen -… Read More

San Francisco: San Fracisco Bay Cities Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1928. Quarto [29.5 cm] Purple marbled boards with a paper label on the front board. Good only. Rubbing and gentle sunning to extremities. Color tipped-in frontis present. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a renowned fine printer who spent the majority of his career in the San Francisco area, founding the Twentieth Century Press with Bruce Brough, which was renamed Tomoye Press when Paul Elder was made a partner. Later Nash founded his own eponymous printing venture, this is where he cemented legacy as one of the great American printers. Later in his life he would teach printing and typography at the University of Oregon.

Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior, 1946. First Edition. 295pp. Quarto [29 cm] Dark blue printed wrappers. Better than very good. Nice copy. Complete with all fold-out maps and plates. In this report from the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation 88 dams and projects are identified that could be built on the rivers of the Upper Basin tributaries. According to Farquhar: "Contains a vast amount of practical information, as well as dreams of dam engineers." Farquhar 110.

Santa Fe, NM: City of Santa Fe, 1971. Map [68.5 cm x 40.5 cm] / [27" x 16"] Two horizontal folds and three vertical folds as issued. Better than very good. Printed on both sides.

Salt Lake City: Department of History, University of Utah, 1973. Dissertation. 196pp. Quarto [28 cm] Comb-bound wrappers. Very good. Text on rectos only. Dissertation from the noted scholar on a people and place he knows well. Floyd O'Neil (1927-2018), spent his childhood in the Uintah Basin, where he attended high school and then Carbon College before moving on to the University of Utah, where he was awarded a B.S. in History in 1957 and a Ph.D. in History in 1973. He served as director of the American West Center from 1986 to 1996. His work in documenting the indigenous peoples of the interior west would be hard to overstate and his influence on a generation of scholars, academics, and historians is immense. Rare.

Portland: The Oregon Historical Records Survey, 1941. 332pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Tan printed wrappers with a binder's tape spine as issued. Very good. Title manuscript in white on the spine. WPA work detailing the holdings of the Wasco County archives located in The Dalles. Uncommon.

American Views, 1910. Stereoview. Silver gelatin photograph [7.5 cm x 13 cm] on a yellow 'American Views - Standard Series' mount [9 cm x 18 cm]. Strong contrasts. Upper left corner of mount show minor damage, otherwise in very good condition. Nice image of a line of nosed-in steamboats in the background and a small crowd with horse drawn carriages in the foreground.

New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. 241pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth. A few small chips to the extremities of the jacket otherwise book and jacket better than very good. "In that game Jim Stanton, by profession a gambler, and by avocation a connoisseur of guns, won a store and quarter-section in Blackwater, which was little more than a wide place in the road waiting for the railroad to come and make it a town. On the stage going to Blackwater next day he met Charlotte Bisonette, the beautiful and spirited daughter of the head of a great cattle empire. Although it was not customary for a young girl of her position to talk to a gambler, she did open a conversation with Stanton and very subtly warned him for his own good to stay away from that region." - from the jacket.

Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1926. 269pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Lower half of jacket's spine missing. Former owner name in ink on the rear free endsheet. Epic poem describing the Mormon Pioneer trek and their settling of the west. Inscribed in the month of publication on the front free endsheet: "Christmas 1926 - Compliments of the author - Alfred Osmond." The rare printed jacket is present. Includes ten full-page illustrations by C. Nelson White. Professor Alfred Osmond a weekly contributor to a Salt Lake newspaper of poems written in the style of Walt Mason, has recently published an epic of the pioneer conquering of the west by the Mormon people, which he calls 'The Exiles.' It is receiving enthusiastic commendation by critics." - The Salt Lake Telegram (2/20/1927). Rare inscribed and in jacket. Flake/Draper 6018.

Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1927. 256pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and again on the backstrip. Very good. Small faint staining to backstrip and rear board. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed on the limitation page [front free endsheet]: "Salt Lake City, UT. / December 21 - 40 / To Cannon Lund / Wishing you a / Very Merry Christmas / Alfred Osmond." Copy number 1618 of an unknown limitation. Flake/Draper 6019.

Washington DC: War Department, Corps of Engineers, 1871. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15 cm] on a yellow 'Expedition of 1871' mount [10.5 cm x 17.5 cm] Printed label on the back. Nice condition with strong contrasts. Image of a pack mule with a teamster standing to each side. This image was taken by O'Sullivan as a member of the Wheeler Survey. Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882) worked on the Wheeler Survey after gaining some fame and notoriety as a photographer during the Civil War. O'Sullivan's work done during this time was later used as a way of persuading Congress to fund military instead of civilian expeditions.

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004. First Edition. 397pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Signed by the author and the series editor on the half-title, with the volume prospectus laid in. Volume 7 in the ambitious and well received 'Kingdom in the West' series. From 1846 to 1857 Mormons played a prominent and crucial role in shapingevents in California and the West. They were the first American settlers of San Francisco. Without them John Sutter would probably not have built his sawmill, and gold would not have been discovered in 1848. Mormons were present at the first gold discovery, made many of the initial 'Strikes,' and accumulated some of the first fortunes in the gold fields. They opened new routes between California and the Great Basin. Clark & Brunet 12.