Search Results: Titles starting with K from Tschanz Rare Books

[Palm Springs, CA]: [Desert Magazine], 1951. Manuscript map [41 cm x 23 cm] / [16" x 9"] ink on paper. Near fine. Vertical fold at center. This map appears in the Desert Magazine issue for September of 1951 on page 6, and accompanies the article ‘We Camped on Kaiparowits' by Randall Henderson. This excellent map depicts the area between Escalante and the confluence of the Colorado and San Juan Rivers (the fifty-mile mountain). Norton Allen (1909-1997) was an American artist and archaeologist who worked in the American Southwest. For nearly four decades he was one of the in-house draftsmen who drew the outstanding maps that appeared in many issues of Desert Magazine. Unique.

Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1961. First Edition. 104pp. Folio [36.5 cm] 1/2 grained cream cloth over red patterned cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in white illustrated slipcase. Both book and slipcase are near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. This is the De Luxe edition of this work, which was limited to 200 number copies - this is copy 125. Profusely illustrated work on the history of cartography in Kansas. Though the book is listed under the authorship of Baughman it is certain that Morgan was responsible for most or all of this work or substantial editing. A typewritten draft of the manuscript in his style and with his editing resides in the Morgan Papers at the Bancroft Library. It is unquestionably of his creation. He does at least appear at the head of the list of acknowledgments. Variant of Saunders 35.

Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1961. First Edition. 104pp. Folio [36.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title stamped on the backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine/Near fine. Profusely illustrated work on the history of cartography in Kansas. Though the book is listed under the authorship of Baughman it is certain that Morgan was responsible for most or all of this work or substantial editing. A typewritten draft of the manuscript in his style and with his editing resides in the Morgan Papers at the Bancroft Library. It is unquestionably of his creation. He does at least appear at the head of the list of acknowledgments. Saunders 35.

[Salt Lake City], 1980. Large Aerial photograph [98 cm x 147 cm] [39" x 58"] on Kodak paper and in a handsome black frame [109 cm x 157.5 cm] [43" x 62"]. Image is bright and in nice condition. Very large aerial photograph showing the Kennecott tailings pond and Magna with Interstate 80 and Route 201 bordering the pond and the Great Saltair [III] visible at their junction. The Great Salt Lake runs along the foot of the image. A strangely beautiful image of the tailings pond that has been in use since 1906.

[Chicago, IL]: [Edwards & Deutsch Lithography Company], 1885. Color lithograph [107 cm x 71 cm] / [42" x 28"] that has been linen backed. Better than very good. Diagram of a kernel of wheat with labeled cut sections. The Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis was one of the largest flour millers in America in the late nineteenth century, and was the precursor of General Mills.

Salt Lake City: Eden Hill, 1982. First Edition. 530pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 dark brown leather over orange boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Introductions by Leonard Arrington. "A scholarly and literate family history, Kindred Saints is an important addition to LDS history and to the field of family history. It is a model family history for others wanting to write about more than one family group in the same book." - from the Introduction.

North Hollywood, CA: Embryo Music Co, 1978. 33 1/3 Long-playing records [30 cm] in original printed cover and sleeve. Better than very good. On this record the King Family Children sing songs from Carol Lynn Pearson's 'My Turn on Earth' and two songs from 'Saturday's Warrior' ('Saturday's Warrior' and 'Pullin' Together').

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. First Edition. 268pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Top edge stained. Near fine. Western Frontiersman Series VIII (8). "Benedict's major contribution to Southwest justice was in aiding in the transition from Spanish-Mexican to Anglo-American law and legal procedure. He served as Chief Justice of the Territory of New Mexico from 1858 until 1866. His association with Lincoln was close because of their mutual legal work in Illinois. Lincoln appointed him the to the federal judiciary in the Southwest" - Clark & Brunet 151.

New York, 1840. 370-460pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light blue printed wrappers. Better than very good. This issue contains the first printing of the Longfellow poem 'The Village Blacksmith.' The inspiration for this poem is commonly believed to have come from the Cambridge smithy, which the poet passed every day as he walked to his position at Harvard College, but Longfellow told his father he wrote it in memory of their seventeenth-century ancestor, Stephen Longfellow, who was a blacksmith. The tree in question was a horse-chestnut tree that was not far away from Longfellow's home in Cambridge. The poem was immensely popular and was routinely memorized by American school children through the 1950s. Rare.