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Fisher, Vardis. Children of God An American Epic. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo 769pp. stated first edition. a fictionalized telling of the history of the Mormon Church from Joseph Smith's early days to the departure of the leaders from Salt Lake City in 1890. #01130. Good: foxing to edges of text block, ex library copy with stamps, hinge cracked at title page.
Seller: Matthew's Books, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 15th printing. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Brown covers with gold lettering and yellow spine
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (so stated). 8vo. Original 1/2 yellow cloth over brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; map endpapers. No dust jacket. Very good. Ink signature on the half title page of Gladys H. Cook.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Vardis Fisher. Children of God, an American Epic. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good/Very Good. Bright and attractive cloth hardcover with dust jacket. 1939. Later printing. Moderate edgewear and soiling and wear to corners. Normal light toning to pages. Dust jacket has chipping on spine ends and small tears and edgewear. Nice copy.
Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God: An American Epic. Harper & Brothers New York (1939), 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition Hardbound Very Good- in boards, no dj 8vo, 769pp, Hinges weak, bumped to corners and spine ends.
Seller: Pilchuck Books, Everett, WA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD. Harper & Brothers, New York, New York, 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sub-titled "An American Epic".Stated "First Edition F-O". With small owner's signature, otherwise crisp and clean, lacking the jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Children of God. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fifteenth edition. Owner's name on front fly, hinges cracked, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis.. CHILDREN OF GOD: AN AMERICAN EPIC.. Harper and Brothers (1939), New York, NY, 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Harper and Brothers. Good condition: inside hinge cracked./No Dustjacket. (1939). 8vo., 769 pp. . Good condition: inside hinge cracked./No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD: AN AMERICAN EPIC. Harper & Row, New York And London, 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Marked "First Edition F-O". Brown Cloth hard cover with yellow spine. Cover and edges of interior are slightly rubbed and edge worn. Else is overall good. ; The story of the trek of the Mormon Saints. Starting with the Prophet Joseph Smith at the age of 14 and ending with the Saints and their life in the Salt Lake Valley. ; 5.75" x 8.5"; 769 pages;
Seller: Confetti Antiques & Books, Spanish Fork, UT, U.S.A.
Vardis Fisher. Children of God An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Price: US$22.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First. F-O. Some important things found in this book still ring true today. Boards very good with some bumping, shelf wear. Very good inside with a touch of handling. See pictures for further details, description.
Seller: Dean's Books, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Vardis Fisher. Children of God: An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1939.
Price: US$24.07 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1939. First Edition. 769 pages. No dust jacket. Orange pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God an American Epic. Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1939.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good++ Hardcover. No dust jacket. First Edition stated with the requisite F-O code from Harpers. Clean, bright and tight. No writing or other marks. We wrap and box our books for shipping.
Seller: Robert Fulgham, Bookseller, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God an American Epic. Harper, 1939.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacob Loeb's copy with his bookplate and a pasted in blurb on the half title page about this being a suitable book for Jacob Loeb "to be sent to him at irregular intervals wherever he may happen to be at the time".
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$25.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine sunned. Hinges weakening; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 769 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God; an American epic [by] Vardis Fisher. Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Price: US$25.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sturdy unmarked copy. Pages lightly tanned with age. No dust jacket. LS
Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Vardis Fisher.. Children of God; an American Epic.. Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Almost like new book in Good dust jacket. Original 1939 edition, 18th printing. Brown and yellow cover, Harper & Brothers, 769pp, illustrated endpapers. Book as new except page edges not quite pritine. Dust jacket rather worn, missing a few 1/2" chips from edges, back cover (which is white) shows surface soiling from handling. Dust jacket now in clear archival mylar sleeve. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. ** Purchasing this book supports our town's public library.
Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Children of God. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, "F-O". Contemporary owner's name on front pastedown, endpapers foxed, offsetting on pages 314-315, else very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. Vanguard, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Children of God by Fisher, Vardis Vanguard Press, 1939 unstated edition Hardback in good condition NO dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover is clean. The Harper Prize Novel of 1939-40. This is the story of Mormon growth and development and move west in America in the 19th century.
Seller: Phoenix Books/Joanne's Used Books, Los Banos, CA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God: An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Price: US$31.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Out of print
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. Harper and Brothers, USA, 1939.
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A US first edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The fragile wrapper on this copy is solid and complete. It is unclipped. The front panel is unfaded, showing light bruising and rubbing at all of the edges. The spine is clean. It shows light creasing to the main body and closed tears and rubbing to the ends. The back panel is sound, showing light wear to the extremities and genral overall soiling to the main body. Looks solid in protective plastic. THE BOOK : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are bright and clean. The spine is gently soiled. The pages are clean. The closed page edges are gently toned with age. No dog-eared pages. The binding is solid - no cracked hinges. A nice copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 769 pp. Yellow cloth spine, brown cloth boards. Dusting to the spine. The upper edge and the bottom edge show some spotting, and there is dusting to the fore-edge. Pictorial end-papers show dusting. The DJ is price-clipped and has soiling, tears, and chips.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis.. Children of God.. N.Y:Harper. 1939. Hardcover., 1939.
Price: US$41.50 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. v.g.-fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
FISHER, VARDIS. Children of God. New York, Harper and Brothers., 1939.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wear to the dust jacket, book very good. First edition. Dykes, My Ten Most Outstanding Books on the West 3: This is by far, the youngest book on my list - long shot. I believe that it is the best in its field. Scallawagiana Hundred 92.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD:AN AMERICAN EPIC. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1939.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 769 The Mormon overland journey to the promised land of Utah.
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
FISHER, Vardis. Children of God. Harpers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Boards slightly bumped at the bottom else near fine in about very good dustwrapper with some faint stains on the edges of the flaps and some slight loss at the spinal extremities. A presentable copy in the scarce dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1939.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original gilt-titled cloth. First edition with f-o code. Map endpages. Hint corner wear. The DJ in mylar is slightly edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD: AN AMERICAN EPIC. Harper & Brothers, N.Y., 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: It was the Harper Prize Novel of 1939-40, and is considered by many to be the best novel on Mormon themes. Stated first edition, brown book w/gilt letters, yellow spine is clean and tight w/lightly bumped bottom corners. It is signed w/inscription on the dedication page by J. H. Gipson of Caxton's, to whom the book is dedicated. The dj spine is lightened, 1/4" strip missing at head of spine, chips to ends of dj spine and corners. Mylar protected. Pictorial end papers, original price showing on unclipped dust jacket.
Seller: Amanda Patchin, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God: An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 769pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 yellow cloth with brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering on a black ink stamped panel on the backstrip, and the title stamped in gilt on the front cover. Deckled fore edges. Pictorial endpapers. The hinges are going, there is a previous owner's name on the verso of the half title, and there is a former owner's blind stamp on the rear flyleaf. In a dust jacket, with a number of small tears along the edges and folds that have been backed with tape. The 1939-40 Harper Prize Novel. From the jacket- "It is the story of the Mormons, their strange beginnings, rapid growth, persecution and heroism, their amazing mass migration across trackless Western Plains. And it is the story of human beings subject to all the pulls of anguish and triumph that human flesh can endure."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis.. CHILDREN OF GOD.. HARPERS. NY 1939, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a priceclipped Vg. dj. (Light touches of soiling to dj. Interior damping to dj., with little discernable evidence on exterior. Faint spot of damping on top edge. 1" by 1/2"- inch chip at head of rear panel. Couple of smaller chips & rubbed spots)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD: An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1939.
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 769+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ yellow cloth spine. Title in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Faint dampstain to top edge of text block. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ wear to edges. Approx. 1" closed tear to top edge of rear panel and 1" closed tear to top corner of rear panel. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. An American Epic. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. [8], 769pp. Two-tone yellow and brown cloth, gilt. Very slight soiling to spine. A fine, clean copy. Story of the Mormons, their beginnings, rapid growth, persecution, amazing mass migration across the plains, etc.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 769 pages. Yellow and brown hardcover binding is moderately darkened on the spine, with minimal shelfwear. No dustjacket. Signed by the author on a front endpaper with no further inscription. Previous owner's stamp on the dedication page. A few pages with minor thumbing creases, and a few tiny spots of staining to the closed page edges, but the text is quite clean and is unmarked. The endpapers are map-illustrated. An early, dated "K-O" meaning October of 1939, but also stated "Seventeenth Edition." Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God, an American Epic. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$159.65 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 769pp., (2) pp. describing The Harper Prize Novel Contest which the author had won. This contest was held every other year. This is the story of the Mormons, their strange beginnings, rapid growth, persecution and heroism, their amazing mass migration across trackless Western plains. It is written in terms of two dominating figures--Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. A near fine copy bound in 1/4 yellow cloth over brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt over black, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with chipping and wear to corners and spine ends, and wear and small chips to edges.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1939.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, stated "FIRST EDITION F-O" on the copyright page. Book in brown cover with bright yellow / orange spine wrap and black and gold title box on the spine. Bottom front cover has 2 bumps on front boards. Spine end at bottom has some staining to the yellow spine wrap. NO marks in or on the interior of the book. Dustjacket is bright and clean , is price clipped , has some chipping and minor loss at top and bottom of spine. REP has previous bookstore label from a Milwaukee, WI store. Winner of the Harper Prize for Best novel in 1939-40. Book details the story of the brginnings of the Mormons and their 2 dominating figures- Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 769 pages. First edition, first printing. The Harper Prize Novel of 1939-40, the story of Mormon growth and development in esrly America. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with the spine very slightly faded and a touch of wear to the corners. Price clipped. A beuatiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Fisher Vardis. CHILDREN OF GOD An American Epic. New York and London Harper & Brothers 1939, 1939.
Price: US$357.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Decorated with illustrated end-leaves. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, backed in original off-white cloth, black lettering label gilt to the spine panel, the upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt and black, in the original pictorial dustjacket. [viii], 769, [1], [2] pp. A fine copy with very little evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION OF THIS FINE WORK WHICH WON THE HARPER PRIZE FOR 1939-1940. The author has given us a story that is one of the least known in American history. CHILDREN OF GOD, relates the history of the Mormons, of their beginnings and the rapid growth of the society and culture. The book relates the persecution and heroism and the mass migration that took them across the country and the trackless Western plains offering suffering anguish, prejudice, life-threatening dangers and intense persecution. The author's approach is written mainly in terms of the two dominating figures of the movement--Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Joseph Smith was the mystic who wanted a better life for his followers. It is the story of Emma his wife, who espoused the doctrine of plural marriage which set the country against her husband and which led to his death at the hands of a mob. Brigham Young was the great strategist who took over after Joseph Smith's death and who led the Mormons out of the then extant United States and into the promised land of Utah. The Mormons had been murdered, pillaged, raped and suffered immense prejudice in the lead-up to the great migration to Utah. Brigham Young was the practical man who made the desert bloom. This is a chronicle of one of the great events of the American diaspora and it is a novel of strong substance.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition (DeLuxe Edition). Signed by Vardis Fisher on the limitation page. The DeLuxe edition of Children of God is limited to one hundred signed and numbered copies, of which this is Number 90. 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" in full black morocco with gilt stamped titles between double gilt ruled lines on the spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. 769pp. Children of God tells the story of the Mormon movement under Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. In 1939 the work won the Harper Novel Prize. Fisher draws on his own experience growing up among the Mormons of Eastern Idaho. "Frederick M. Smith, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, strongly repudiated the book in the Kansas City Times. Mormon literary critic Michael Austin called Children of God 'one of the most influential novels about Mormonism ever published.'" Previous owners name neatly written at top edge of ffep. Light rubbing to spine and extremities. Very good.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.