[Elmira, New York: Chemung Printing Co.], (1908). Stated second edition, thus noted on the final page. 8vo, original green cloth, black lettering. Frontis portrait, illus. A fairly popular piece of anti-Mormon literature that went through at least seven stated editions. The publication information for this edition taken from the copy... More about The Letters of an Apostate Mormon to his Son
Chicago, Ill. Keen and Lee; Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped and gilt-stamped red cloth, 451, [5] pages, all edges marbled. Frontis, two plates. Three inserted folding color maps. Illus. Detailed description of Illinois, intended as a lure and a guide to immigrants. Includes a catalog of... More about Illinois as it is . . . with a Prairie and Wood Map, a Geological Map, and Population Map, and...
Williamstown: Printed by Ridley Bannister, 1832. First edition. 8vo, unbound, stitched, 12 pages. Unopened. The president of Williams College writes to commend Eddy for keeping the Presbyterians of Canandaigua relatively calm during the great revivals that swept through the area in 1831 (Canadaigua lies in the heart of the Burnt... More about A Letter to the Rev. Ansel D. Eddy, of Canandaigua, N. Y., on the Narrative of the Late Revivals...
(Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House), 1964. A revised edition of a work that first appeared in 1951. 8vo, original light rose wrappers, 64 pages. A Reformed Latter-day Saints controversial work, contrasting their positions on this question with the church in Utah. With a publisher's note tipped to the verso of... More about Baptism for the Dead
(Belleville, Illinois: Printed by B. H. Perryman and H. L. Davidson), 1855. First edition. 8vo, later half calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 600, xxiii, [1] pages. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. Perhaps the best firsthand account of the pioneer years of the state from an important early public figure. The imprint information... More about My Own Times, Embracing Also, The History of my Life
Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler & Co., Publishers, 1875. First edition. 8vo, original decorated terra cotta cloth, 480 pages. Frontis, engraved title, illus., plates. A collection of humorous squibs and essays from the Michigan newspaper humorist Charles Bertrand Lewis (better known by his pseudonym M. Quad), including the humorous firsthand... More about “Quad’s Odds;” by “M. Quad, the Detroit Free Press Man.” Anecdote, Humor and Pathos....
[Washington, D. C. Wm. M. Belt, 1850]. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 14 pages. “Your memorialists, members of the general assembly of the State of ‘Deseret,’ would respectfully lay before your honorable body the wishes and interests of our constituents, together with the reasons and design of... More about Memorial of the Members of the Legislative Council of the Provisional Government of Deseret,...
[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, Printers, [1841]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched, 9.75 x 6.25 inches, 47, [1] pages, untrimmed and partially unopened. “Sampson Avard, a witness produced, sworn, and examined on behalf of the State, deposeth and saith: That about four months since, a band, called the Daughters... More about Document Showing the Testimony Given Before the Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State...
(Independence, Missouri: Zion's Printing and Publishing Company), [ca. 1920-1930?]. A later edition of this LDS missionary pamphlet, including the preface to the second American edition dated 1902. Small 8vo, original printed self-wrappers, 31, [1] pages. More about My Reasons for Joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [wrapper title
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[Lamoni, Iowa: n. p.], (1887). First edition. 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 240 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on a front blank, “C. P. Frease, from the Author Fry Walker, Aug. 1888.” From the husband of prominent RLDS figure Marietta Walker comes this rather eccentric archeological and... More about The Ruins Revisited and the World-Story Retold. By an Americainist [sic
