Soft brown leather with raised bands, gilt lettering, ribbon marker. Very good condition in clear dust jacket. Leather is clean, gilt edges bright. Two pages have a few inconspicuous markings in orange highlighter (see photo below).
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.
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.
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.