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Chicago: Arrco Playing Card Company, 1945. 108 cards: 2 complete 52 card decks. Each deck has a Joker card, and an advertisement card for Arrco's 'Plastic Coated Duratone Playing Cards.' Housed in a gold and suede two-piece slipcase box. Deck and box show minor rubbing and wear. Playing cards from Arrco Playing Card Company. The reverse of all of the cards features a black and white view of the road through Gallatin Canyon 'Gateway to Yellowstone Park. Bozeman, Montana.'.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1989. Single sheet [47 cm x 55 cm] white stock printed in color. Horizontal and vertical fold at the center (as issued?) with minor rubbing to both. Promotional poster from Farrar, Strauss and Giroux for Arthur Yorinks and Richard Egielski's 'Oh, Brother.'.

Hanna, UT: Collier's Publishing Company, 2006. First Edition. 470pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black grained buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Uncommon work from the outspoken fundamentalist and prolific defender of same. Brigham Young (1801-1877), second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and first Governor of Utah, was the founder and chief builder of the Intermountain West and the Great Basin. He is recognized as one of the foremost colonizers and empire builders of all time.

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. 73pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Pictorial endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Inscribed by U.S. Senator from Utah, Elbert D. Thomas and his wife Edna on the front pastedown. Illustrated work containing a biographical sketch and tributes to the American Moses, Brigham Young. Sen. Thomas offered one of the tributes. Dedicatory prayer by George Albert Smith.

[New York]: [Russell Brothers], 1868. First Edition. 72pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over cream printed boards. Very good. Gentle age toning to boards. Second Deseret Alphabet primer, and one-of-four books printed by Brigham Young and the LDS Church in the Deseret Alphabet. Illustrations from the 'Wilson Readers.' "[Brigham] Young therefore directed George D. Watt, an Englishman, and an early Mormon convert, to create a new alphabet based on English language phonic values. Watt may have been Young's personal secretary. What is certain is that he was an expert in the then-new and very popular Pitman system of shorthand. The alphabet assignment was handed to Watt in 1853, and by the following year he was able to lay before Young a 32 - character system (eventually increased to 38)" - Wentz, Roby 'Thirty-eight Mormon Characters' p.12.