The city of the saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California by BURTON, Richard F - 1963

Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Very Good. Burton, Richard F.. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 654pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt and red embossing. Book condition: Very good with rubbed, bumped and slightly chipped extremities. Cloth is frayed slightly on the corners. Front pastedown has a tear and a previous owner's bookplate. The rear hinge and endsheet are both partially split. Top edge has faint stains from moisture.

New York: Knopf, 1963. First Borzoi Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated First Borzoi Edition. NEAR- FINE BOOK, WITHOUT WRITING OR NAMES, IN GOOD, PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET WITH SMALL STAINS AND TEARS AT FLAP FOLDS. LIGHT GENERAL DARKENING TO PANELS AND SPINE, SLIGHT CHIPS AT SPINE ENDS. Edited, with and Introduction and Notes, by Fawn Brodie.

B. Herder. Fair with no dust jacket; Light corner wear. Tape on spine edges. Stamped . ex-libris but inside pages nice, binding tight.. 1895. Hardcover. Has Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; Ex-Libris; 259 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Book. VG-. Hard Cover (x-library). 1st Printing. Thick Large Octavo. 654pp + index. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve, taped to boards. Card pocket rear. Light tape stains on end papers. Inside edges of flyleaves trimmed, clear of text..

USA: Knopf, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Some foxing and edge wear to jacket. Slight browning to jacket spine. Dust jacket is now preserved in a new mylar sleeve. Shipped from The Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

New York: Knopf, 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Edited with an introduction & notes by Fawn Brodie. First Knopf edition. Burton came to the US in 1860, spending about 100 days in the west, and published this book in England in 1861. Blue cloth boards with red design and gold titles. Part of the red top edges have light speckling. Dust jacket, with $8.50 price intact on flap, is sun darkened on spine and at top of rear panel. A 1/4" tear at top of spine.

1963: ALFRED A. KNOPF. THIS FIRST THUS EDITION PUBLISHED BY KNOFT (FIRST BORZOI EDITION) IS VG BOUND IN CLEAN BLUE CLOTH WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES TO SPINE AND DECORATIVE RED ABSTRACT PATTERN TO LOWER SPINE AND BOTH BOARDS.EDITED BY FAWN M. BRODIE, WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES TO THE TEXT. SHE ASSERTS, IN HER INTRODUCTION, THAT THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ON THE MORMONS PUBLISHED IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. (A LABEL FROM PUBLISHED EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE OF LONDON HAS BEEN STUCK OVER THE KNOPF LABEL ON TITLE PAGE. THE TITLE PAGE OF THE 1861 EDITION IS REPRODUCED.) XL1V/654pp WITH PREFACE, 13 CHAPTERS, 21 ILLUSTRATIONS, CONCLUSION, APPENDICES AND INDEX. A HANDSOME VOLUME! CONDITION VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus Edition. 1963.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo [22 cm] Rebacked in sturdy green cloth with the original backstrip laid over and 3/4 of the original boards showing. Hinges reinforced. Lacking pp. 705-7 of the index. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. With the map at the front, and the Plan of Great Salt Lake City. All illustrations present. Flake 1029. Wright Howes B-1028. Second British edition. After traveling through the Holy Land, Burton turned his eyes to the Great Basin. The book tells of the noted adventurer's travels through Indian country to visit Salt Lake City and study the polygamous practices of the Mormons there.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1862. Very Good. Burton, Richard F.. City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1862. 1st American edition. 574pp. Indexed. Large 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Rubbed and bumped corners, exposing boards. Cloth binding lightly dirt-soiled and rubbed. There is a newspaper article mounted to the first flyleaf. Folding map present, and slightly creased. All plates present.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 8vo. modern red leatherette gilt (prev. owner's blind stamp to title page, upper forecorner of p.207/208 torn with loss, outer leaves a little browned, occasional grubby mark, else very clean & bright); pp. xii, 707 (last colophon), with tissue-guarded frontispiece, 8 plates, 8 text figures & tables, plus 4 maps (on 2 foldouts). Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. VG.