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Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Rebound in recent years in a sturdy, durable buckram, with 12 pages supplied by photo copy. Pages 53-56, and 291-298 are an earlier version of photo copy with printing on one side of leaf only, and are bound in. Other than normal foxing, contents are very good, clean. Flake 00404
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Good. Covers faded and soiled. Gilt on lettering faded and not legible. Edges bumped and corners rubbed. Spotting on pastedowns and front free end sheet. Former owner's stamp on front free end sheet. Light foxing in text. Brown cloth with gilt lettering
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Original binding-blind-stamped cloth boards w/gilt titling on spine. Boards are soiled from age & handling, rubbing at edges. Most pages snugly bound; last 30 are loose or missing (p313/314 & pp321-34); endpapers & a couple early & late pages are missing as well. Textbox edges a bit dusty; off-setting/foxing throughout; pages are still quite readable. Protected in mylar sleeve. This is an "As Is" sale - feel free to ask further questions.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 2 plates, 4 full-page illustrations including a plan of Nauvoo. ii, 344 pages. 8vo. Bennett was briefly an important LDS leader, serving as mayor of Nauvoo and general of the Nauvoo Legion until his excommunication in early 1842. By the end of that year, this bitter exposé was on the market. After the 1844 death of Joseph Smith, Bennett joined the Strangite branch of the Mormons, but was excommunicated in 1847. The illustrations include a portrait of Joseph Smith after the June 1842 portrait by Sutcliffe Maudsley. This is believed to be the first portrait of Smith to appear in print. Howes B358; Flake 403; Sabin 4733 Original cloth, loss at head of spine 2 plates, 4 full-page illustrations including a plan of Nauvoo. ii, 344 pages. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BENNETT, John C.. History of the Saints. , 1842.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: BENNETT, John C. History of the Saints; or, an Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism. Boston: Leland & Whiting, 1842. ii,344pp. Portrait frontis., portrait, plates, plan. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Cloth rubbed, wear to spine ends, outer hinges, and corners, ink stains on rear cloth, light scattered foxing, else a very good copy. HOWES B-358. Flake 403. "John C. Bennett's meteoric career is unique in Mormondom. During the twenty-one months following his initial contact with Joseph Smith in August 1840, he became the first mayor of Nauvoo, major general in the Nauvoo Legion, chancellor of the University of Nauvoo, and assistant president of the Church. [H]is philandering ultimately brought about his excommunication from the Church on May 11, 1842, and his resignation as mayor on the 17th. Bennett's retaliation was quick in coming. On July 8 the Springfield Sangamo Journal ran the first of seven sensational letters in which he accused Joseph Smith and those close to him of political despotism, wholesale land fraud, the attempted assassination of Lilburn W. Boggs, and wide-ranging sexual improprieties. Collected, revised, and fleshed out with generous excerpts from William Harris's Mormonism Portrayed (Warsaw, 1841), E. D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, 1834), and J. B. Turner's Mormonism in All Ages (New York, 1842), they formed the basis of Bennett's book." Crawley, p.202. Bennett has been called "the Lucifer of the Mormon Church." With the bookplate of the noted Americana collector, Hall Park McCullough.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.