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. Deseret Alphabet. Second Book of the Regents of the Deseret University. Deseret University, Salt Lake City, 1868.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Deseret alphabet. Flake 2818 Good with slightly cracked front hinge. Spine and endsheets have faint rippling. Covers are lightly stained and corners are only just rubbed to boards. Light foxing on fore-edge. Otherwise clean interior

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

. The Deseret Second Bok by the Regents of the Deseret Yionivursiti. [Deseret University], [Salt Lake City], 1868.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: Printed in Deseret alphabet. Flake 2818 Very good with gently rubbed edges, faint soiling, and endsheets are cracked at hinges with former owner's tiny ink stamps 1/4 Brown cloth with gray printed cover

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

[Mormonen].. The Deseret Second Book. By the Regents of the Deseret University.. Deseret (Salt Lake City) University, 1868.

Price: US$227.46 + shipping

Description: Kl.-8°. 72 S. Mit Abbildungen. Halbleinen. Lehrfibel zum Erlernen des "Deseret Alphabets", der von Brigham Young für die Mormonen entwickelten phonetischen Schrift für die englische Sprache. Nur wenige Bücher sind in Deseret gedruckt worden. Schön illustrierter Titel mit Bienenstock und dem Salt Lake Temple.

Seller: Libelle mit H & B, Basel, Switzerland

[Deseret Alphabet] [George Watt] [Brigham Young]. The Deseret Second Book by the Regents of Deseret University [Second Deseret Alphabet Primer]. [Russell Brothers], [New York], 1868.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 72pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over cream printed boards. Very good. Gentle age toning to boards. Second Deseret Alphabet primer, and one-of-four books printed by Brigham Young and the LDS Church in the Deseret Alphabet. Illustrations from the 'Wilson Readers.' "[Brigham] Young therefore directed George D. Watt, an Englishman, and an early Mormon convert, to create a new alphabet based on English language phonic values. Watt may have been Young's personal secretary. What is certain is that he was an expert in the then-new and very popular Pitman system of shorthand. The alphabet assignment was handed to Watt in 1853, and by the following year he was able to lay before Young a 32 - character system (eventually increased to 38)" - Wentz, Roby 'Thirty-eight Mormon Characters' p.12.

Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

. Deseret Alphabet. The Deseret second book by the Regents of the Deseret University. [Primer No. 2]. [Deseret University], [Salt Lake City], 1868.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: One page errata at terminus, thus scarce Good with rubbed edges and title label mounted on backstrip. Lightly dirt-soiled and stained endmatter 1/4 charcoal cloth with illustrated boards

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Deseret University.. The Deseret furst [sekund] bok / by the Regents of the Yionivursiti.. [Salt Lake City] 1868., 1868.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: VG lt. rubbed black cloth spines, printed paper over board sides. 2 parts;19 cm. First reader, 36, [2] pages. Salmon paper sides, lower cover lightlyrubbed. Second reader, 72, [2] pages. Gray paper sides lightly stained andfrayed along edges. Woodcut vignettes in text and a leaf of errata at theend of each book. (Flake 2817-18) Text entirely in Deseret alphabet exceptfor table of equivalent sounds on p. 3 of each book and for note in Secondreader at foot of p. 72: `The illustrations used in the First and Second Books are selected from [Marcius] Willson's Readers (so justly popular, and so universally used in the Territory), by the kind permission of the authorand publisher.' The printed front covers have a beehive at the top, domestic scenes at the sides, and the Salt Lake Temple at the foot, connected withvines. Although the Temple of which the cornerstone had been set in 1853 is shown here as finished, work was diverted in 1868 to the Union Pacific Railroad, and the walls had been raised only 20 feet above ground by the timeof Brigham Young's death in 1877. The completed Temple was dedicated in 1893. Binding is Hardcover.

Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.