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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, sheep, crudely backed with black duct tape, frontispiece, 516pp. Hinges hanging. Ex-lib., with withdrawn stamps and other provenance markings. The front endpaper with an affecting pencil inscription from Elisabeth Brokaw, of Oberlin OH, to her aunt Eunice Harrington, who was then in her declining years. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 46-4431. FLAKE 5278. ROSENBACH 592. A good copy.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, contemporary leather, library book-plate and blind stamp, frontispiece, 516pp. Light foxing. Second Edition. FLAKE 5278. HOWES M-293. SABIN 44625. A Good+ to Very Good copy.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo leather bound hardcover volume. Some chipping to spine at tips and wear to boards. End papers not split but toned. 516 pages are complete first couple end papers have a water stain. Rest of pages ok but have scattered foxing.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full leather binding. Variant of the 1831 edition which included excerpts from entries written later that 1831, including material written up until 1845. This book is in Very Good- condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. There is a black and white illustration of Marks as the frontispiece. Starr. Baptist Bibliography #M2931 "David Marks (November 4, 1805 1845) was an American Baptist preacher. He was born in Shandaken, Ulster County, New York. At age 13, he set out on foot for Providence, Rhode Island. He walked 368 miles before arriving at Brown University. However, upon his arrival he was informed that tuition would be free, but no other funds were available for boarding or clothing. He then walked 368 miles back home. On June 11, 1819, he was baptized and became a member of the Freewill Baptist Church in Phelps. The following year he joined the Freewill Baptist Church in Junius." (from Wikipedia) "In 1827 David Marks (a non-Mormon minister) went to Palmyra and Manchester, New York where he "made considerable inquiry respecting . . . [Joseph] Smith" and learned from "several persons in different places" that Joseph was "about 21 years [old]; that previous to his declaration of having found the plates he made no pretensions to religion." (fairmormon webpage) Marks book is the first to mention Mormonism as a religion. Marks not mentions Mormonism, but went to Palmyra, New York to investigate the tablets and to speak to the witnesses about the Religion and the Tablets.
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: 516pp. Contemporary full calf, black leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Frontispiece. The biography of an itinerant Baptist minister. Wear to extremities and covers, scattered foxing throughout, contemporary inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. A solid good+ copy. Howes M293. Sabin 44625. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition thus. Full leather. 8vo. 516 pages. Black and white portrait of the author facing title page. Rare variant of the 1831 edition. Includes excerpts from journal entries written after 1831. Book documents his work in the American Baptist Church and later at Westminster Abbey in England. Marks was a Jewish convert to Christianity and a critic of Joseph Smith and the Mormon movement. Wear to edges. Gilt lettering on spine. Age stained throughout, with no damage to text. Names of previous owners written in pencil on front endpapers. Gilt lettering on spine. Overall in good condition. (AMRN-2-32).
Seller: Dan Wyman Books, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.