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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] 3/4 pebbled leather with blue cloth over boards, and gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Speckled edges. Brown floral endsheets. Eleven plates, including the double page Joseph and Hyrum. The extremities are rubbed, and there are thin losses from the ends of the backstrip. The text block is cracked throughout, and the front pastedown has a previous owner's name in pen. Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. Flake/Draper 7331.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black pebbled leather with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Brown floral endpapers. All edges gilt. Eleven plates, including the double page Joseph and Hyrum. The leather at the foot of the backstrip is chipped, and has a loss measuring 1/2 inch wide by 1/4 inch deep. The front flyleaf and the frontispiece portrait of John Taylor are only hanging on by a single thread. The title page is detached, but present. The text block is cracked a couple of times. Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. Flake/Draper 7331.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full grained leather with decorative gilt stamping to the boards and the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Crown chipped with loss with the corners gently rubbed. Frontis is loose and laid in. Complete with all eleven tipped-in plates. "The author is of the opinion that John Taylor would have had a remarkable history even if Mormonism had not found him; for he possessed those qualities of mind which would have made him a leader and a reformer among men. It is quite probable, too, that in the event of Mormonism not finding him, he would have won more of the honors and applause of men; for while his connection with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints threw him into prominence, the disrepute in which that Church is held brought reproach and odium upon him from the world. Had the courage and unselfish devotion which he brought to the support of Mormonism been given to some reform movement less odious in the estimation of mankind, his conduct would have called forth the highest encomiums from all men; but as those virtues were displayed for the interest and advancement of Mormonism, the world either refused to recognize them at all, or accounted them fanaticism merely, for which no praise was due." - B.H. Roberts. Flake/Draper 7331.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full leather with gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. All edges gilt. Illustrated. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Backstrip gently faded. 1" x 3/4" loss from the head of backstrip. Frontis detached and laid in. Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. "I would like to obey and place myself in subjection to every law of man. What then? Am I to disobey the law of God? Has any man a right to control my conscience, or your conscience? .No man has a right to do it" - John Taylor. Flake/Draper 7331.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full leather with gilt stamped titles and ornamental stamping on the boards and backstrip, and beveled edges. All edges gilt. Brown floral endsheets. Eleven plates, including the double page Joseph and Hyrum. Chipping to the leather at the spine ends and corners of the covers. The front hinge is split, and the title page is partially detached. There are dark patches from former inlaid material on pp. 62-63, and the pages have sporadic tide marks in the upper margins. While most of the tide marks are quite minor, roughly a dozen of them extend across the whole margin. Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. Flake/Draper 7331.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full leather with gilt stamped titles and ornamental stamping on the boards and backstrip, and beveled edges. All edges gilt. Green and white floral endsheets. Eleven plates, including the double page Joseph and Hyrum. Good. The leather boards are lightly scratched and the spine ends and corners of the covers are mildly rubbed. The text block is cracked multiple times. Pp. 227-238 are just hanging on by a single thread. Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. "I would like to obey and place myself in subjection to every law of man. What then? Am I to disobey the law of God? Has any man a right to control my conscience, or your conscience? .No man has a right to do it" - John Taylor. Flake/Draper 7331.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.