Wednesday, February 24, 2010

#14: The First Mormon Book, PRICE REDUCED

The First Mormon Book: A Celebration of the 1830 Book of Mormon with an Original Leaf, Benchmark Books in Association with Red Butte Press, Salt Lake City, 2000.

27 pages. Includes an essay, "The Publication of the 1830 Book of Mormon," by Peter Crawley, and a foreward by Curt Bench.

Limited edition, #181 of 290. Hardcover bound in flecked blue Japanese bookcloth, with a matching slipcase. Printed letterpress damp on handmade paper from Sicily. Also includes a wood cut engraving of the press used for the first Book of Mormon. Very good to fine condition. Spine and slipcase have darkened slightly, relative to the covers.

Contains an archival preserved original page from the first edition of the Book of Mormon.

The included leaf is page 311/312, Alma 31:10-35. The passage contains the account of Alma's mission to reclaim the apostate Zoramites. It describes their mode of worship, the prayer they recited on the "holy stand," Rameumptom, and tells of their materialism and pride.

$1100, NOW $900, including US shipping.





#13: Letters from Exile: The Correspondence of Martha Hughes and Angus M. Cannon, PRICE REDUCED

Signature Books, 1989, edited by Constance L. Lieber and John Sillito.

Volume 3 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries Series, 286 pages, ISBN 0-941214-77-X.

Limited edition, #117 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by editor Sillito.

$50, NOW $40, including US shipping.





SOLD #12: A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson

Signature Books, 1993, edited by Stan Larson.

Volume 6 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries series, 803 pages, ISBN 0-941214-96-6.

Limited edition, #263 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket. Signed by editor Larson.

$100, including US shipping. SOLD





SOLD #11: Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund, 1890-1921

Signature Books, 2006, edited by John P. Hatch.

Volume 10 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries Series, 576 pages, ISBN 1-56085-185-6.

Limited edition, #77 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by editor Hatch.

$100, including US shipping. SOLD




Tuesday, February 23, 2010

#10: Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle, PRICE REDUCED

Signature Books, 1998, edited by Gene A. Sessions.

Volume 8 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries series, 379 pages, ISBN 1-56085-023-X.

Unnumbered review copy in limited edition of 500. Near fine condition in clear dust jacket. Publisher's embossed "Review Copy" stamp on first page. Inscribed and signed by editor Sessions.

$85, NOW $70, including US shipping.




#9: History's Apprentice: the Diaries of B.H. Roberts 1880-1898, PRICE REDUCED

Signature Books, 2004, edited by John Sillito.

Volume 9 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries series, 608 pages, ISBN 1-56085-173-2.

Limited edition, #137 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by editor Sillito.

$100, NOW $80, including US shipping.





SOLD #8: Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith

Signature Books, 1990, edited by Jean Bickmore White.

Volume 4 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries Series, 700 pages, ISBN 0-941214-85-0.

Limited edition, #410 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket.

$100, including US shipping. SOLD



#7: In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot, PRICE REDUCED

Signature Books, 1997, edited by Harvard Heath.

Volume 7 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries series, 850 pages, ISBN 1-56085-051-5.

Limited edition, #166 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by editor Heath.

$100, NOW $80, including US shipping.

SOLD #6: An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton

Signature Books, 1991, Edited by George D. Smith.

Volume 5 in Signature's Significant Mormon Diaries series, ISBN 0-941214-90-7, 580 pages.

Limited edition, #271 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket, signed by editor Smith.

$300, including US shipping. SOLD

Sunday, February 21, 2010

SOLD #5: On the Potter's Wheel : The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball

Signature Books, 1987.

Volume 2 in Signature's "Significant Mormon Diaries" series, 262 pages. ISBN 0-941214-60-5.

Limited edition, #204 of 500. Fine condition in clear dust jacket, signed by editor Stanley B. Kimball.

$600, including US shipping. SOLD







SOLD #4: Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898: Typescript

9 vols + index.

Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books, 1984. Second printing. ISBN 0-941214-13-3. Limited edition #37 of 200. Cloth covered boards with clear dust jackets. In very good to near fine condition with minor soiling to top edges.

Seldom-seen copy of an important work.

$3800, including US shipping. SOLD