Benjamin G Ferris. Utah and the Mormons : the history, government, doctrines, customs, and prospects of the Latter-day Saints. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1854.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 347 pages : including frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, plates. Publisher's blind-stamped binding worn, corners bumped and rounded, 1 1/2 inch strip at head of spine and 1/2 inch strip at foot apparently glued in place; previous owner's stamp at front free endpaper, binding tender in places, contents clean. A satisfactory, though by no means stellar, copy. 430 grams.

Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Ferris, Benjamin G.. Utah and the Mormons. The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, andProspects of the Latter-Day Saints. Harper & Brothers New York 1854, New York, 1854.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good tight condition slight wear to spine tips period name, name stamp

Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Ferris, Benjamin G.. UTAH AND THE MORMONS - The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs and Prospects of the Latter-Day Saints. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, NY, 1854.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1854. . Cloth. 8vo., 347 pp, cover in very good condition, good hinges, some pencil markings, YMCA stamp on several pages, some yellowing of page edges, some water marks .

Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.

Benjamin G. Ferris. Utah and the Mormons. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1854.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition with some interesting pencil notes from page 217-336 (not offensive) with additional comments about customs and specific people mentioned, some foxing , very good.

Seller: Uncommon Books - The Gomez Collection, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.

Ferris, Benjamin G.. Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Custom, and Prospects of the Latter-Day Saints. From Personal Observation during a Six Months' Residence at Great Salt Lake City. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1854.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 347pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Original green cloth with the title and bands gilt on backstrip and decorative blind stamping to boards. Better than very good. Backstrip gently faded. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Benjamin Ferris (1802-1891) served in the (federally installed) Utah Territorial government in 1852-53. "In the early part of the summer of 1852 I was solicited to discharge the duties of Secretary of the Territory of Utah. A Curiosity, long cherished, to visit a portion of the world about which many marvelous accounts had been given, induced me to accept the vacant post. The result has been a six months residence in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, embracing the severe winter of 1852-3." - from the Preface. Flake/Draper 3328. Wagner/Camp 238a. Howes F98.

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

Ferris, Benjamin G. (Gilbert). Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-day Saints. From Personal Observation During a Six Months' residence at Great Salt Lake City. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1854.

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Description: 317pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Blue cloth with a gilt stamped title and 6 decorative gilt ruled borders on the spine. Decorative blind stamping to boards. Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Smith in profile. Title page vignette of Mormon coins in Utah. Very good minus. The extremities are rubbed, and the spine is darkened (gilt still bright). There are a couple of 1" closed tears in the top margins of the front free endsheet and flyleaf, the endsheets are discolored, and the pages are age-toned. Important and valuable early firsthand account of life in Mormon Utah during its first decade by an objective observer. Ferris was appointed the territorial secretary of Utah in 1852-53, a position he held for six months. He subsequently moved to California and wrote this account of his time among the Mormons. Flake/Draper 3328. Howes F98. Wagner/Camp 238a.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Ferris, Benjamin G.. UTAH AND THE MORMONS: THE HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, DOCTRINES, CUSTOMS, AND PROSPECTS OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS; FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATION DURING A SIX MONTHS' RESIDENCE AT GREAT SALT LAKE CITY. Harper, NY, 1854.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Small 8vo. 347 pp. Illustrated, plates. Howes F-98. Flake 3328. Original brown cloth, gilt title and ornamental rules on spine. Some light foxing, small shelf label on spine, but a very good copy.

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

Ferris, Benjamin G.. Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-Day Saints from Personal Observation During a Six Months' Residence at Great Salt Lake. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1854.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Very good. Spine and edges faded and gently rubbed with lightly bumped corners. Gilt on spine no longer legible. Former owner's stamp on front free endsheet and name penciled on title; penciled notes under frontispiece Brown cloth with gilt lettering

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

FERRIS, Benjamin G.. Utah and the Mormons. The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-day Saints. Harper, New York, 1854.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: From personal observation during a six months's residence at Great Salt Lake City. Engravings. 347pp. Small 8vo, original blue cloth, spine ends and edges of corners worn, cloth lightly soiled, edges of cloth rubbed, scattered light foxing, page 343 creased and with a small tear in margin. New York: Harper, 1854. First Edition "Benjamin Ferris served in the Utah Territorial government in 1852-53." Wagner-Camp 238b:1. Howes F-98. Flake 3328. Sabin 24184

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.