Mormonism (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: FINE. 164pp. FINE copy in FINE jacket.

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 12 (weekend sale item)* 171 pp., pam bound, original paper wrappers loose and chipped; text is somewhat fragile; library markings, . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. 66pp. Slim quarto [27.5 cm] Staple bound wraps. Moderate rubbing to the wraps. Very small loss from head of spine. Wraps detached from staple at the head. Pages toned with age- more so at the edges. Subjects include the following: Mormon Empire; Rape: The All-American Crime; Lockheed: Dinosaur on a Hot Tin Roof; Jack Nicholson Looks East; Latin America- Special Report; Health Care. With the article "The Mormon Empire" by Frances Lang (pp. 36-43).…

Pamphlet. Zustand: Near Fine. [2], 13, [1] pp. 24mo [15 cm]. Pamphlet in self-wrappers. A single gathering secured only by folding and glue, as issued. Printed on white paper in black ink. The front cover bears the title and author attribution to Heber J. Grant. The rear cover features a halftone photographic illustration of the Salt Lake Temple with a caption. Mild even age-toning and a soft, faint vertical handling fold. A nice, structurally sound, and clean copy. (This variant matches most closely to Flake-Draper 3673, with no date printed, 15cm vertical measurement, and plain printed wraps. See also: Flake/Draper 3669-3672). This tract represents the primary missionary work written by Heber J. Grant (1856-1945) during his tenure as the first president of the LDS Japan Mission (1901-1903). The text provides an introductory overview of Latter-day Saint theology for a Japanese audience, reporting on the First Vision of Joseph Smith, his subsequent martyrdom at Carthage Jail, and concluding with a complete translation of the thirteen Articles of Faith. Documenting the foundational years of the Church's proselytising efforts in Asia, this rare Japanese Mormon imprint predates the first Japanese translation of the Book of Mormon.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Full leather (brown). Black labels on the spine. Front hinge cracked, but board still attached. Covers faded unevenly. Binding good and tight. Bookplate from Phillips University Library, Enid Oklahoma on inside front cover, but no other indication of library ownership anywhere. Page are a little bit foxed. Quite an unusual imprint from Bethany VA (now part of West Virginia). Contains Jan-December 1839. 12 issues. Includes Incidents on a Tour of the South. essays in Sin, Christianity among the Sects, letters to and from Campbell. Includes, on page 265-268, a section on the Mormon Bible, written by Matilda Davison, with comment by A. Campbell. The article makes reference to the Boston Recorder of the previous week (May or June of 1839) and Howe's 1834 book "Mormonism Unvailed." About the Book of Mormon, it says, "It was difficult to imagine how a work containing so many indications of being the production of a cultivated mind, should be connected with a knavery so impudent and a superstition so gross as that which must have characterized the founders of this pretended religious sect." It goes on to relate Matlida Davison's observations about the source of the Book of Mormon: "its claims to a divine origin are wholly unfounded." She claims that the story that came to be the Book of Mormon was written by her husband Solomon Spaulding (now usually spelled Spalding) in 1817, inspired by the burial mounds in New Salem, OH. Spaulding's manuscript was much shared among friends but never published, though it was studied by a printer's associate named Sidney Rigdon. When the Book of Mormon was published, friends of Spaulding recognized it immediately as a plagiarism of his own 'Manuscript.' Sidney Rigdon, the printer's associate mentioned in the article went on to become a leader in the LDS movement -- thereby cutting his ties with Campbell (and the Campbellites) and his movement. Please email with questions or to request photos.…

Ephemera. Zustand: Very Good. Pagination runs 181 to 210. Single issue of this weekly publication devoted to the republication of English fiction (without paying royalties). As such, this features the first three chapters of "Martin Chuzzlewit" by Charles Dickens, as well as an editorial criticizing the recent work and wealth of Dickens. Of note is a brief article on Mormons and Mormonism asserting that there are people in Kendal [England] taken by the dogmas of Mormonism that they refuse medical advice, and claiming that Joseph Smith is threatening to take the US by fire and sword, mentioning he had been indicted for murder and arson. Moderate scattered foxing to the paper.…

105 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Zustand: Removed, edges trimmed. Fine. Second edition. Second edition. 105 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

52pp. 12mo. First edition. First edition. 52pp. 12mo. Sabin 83281. Not in Flake Original flexible crimson cloth gilt. Fine.

Zustand: Very Good +. First edition, second printing. The first and only issue of an anti-Mormon publication circulating "obscene" sermons supposedly preached by Mormon leaders including Brigham Young (though Flake-Draper notes that they are "doubtfully authentic"). 150 x 220 mm. [4] pp., complete. Two sheets of paper, somewhat browned and brittle, with a few chips to margins. A Very Good, unblemished copy of a scarce and fragile item. The publication begins, "It is a fact with which all residents of Utah are familiar that until a few years since many of the sermons of Brigham Young, as delivered in the Tabernacle in this city, were so full of profanity, and abounded with so many obscene and indecent expressions, as to be utterly unfit for publication." The supposed Brigham Young sermon is, in fact, full of profanity, as well as hatred towards non-Mormons: "Who cares about these infernal Gentiles?" he supposedly preached. "If they were to wear a s--t pot on their heads, must I do so?" The other sermons, credited to Jeter Clinton (1813 - 1892), "Bishop Wooley," and "the Bishop of San Pete," are nearly as offensive; the sermon in "San Pete" was, to add insult to injury, delivered "before six or seven hundred men, women and children." This dubious publication was clearly produced to stoke fears about Mormon impropriety and aggression towards non-Mormons. The traditional practice of polygamy was still widespread among Mormons in the 1870s, and many non-Mormons believed that the practice was both sexually deviant and at odds with mainstream Christian values. This publication predates the Edmunds-Tucker Act (sometimes referred to as the Anti-Plural Marriage Act), which restricted polygamy and seize some church properties, by about a decade, and exemplifies the brewing anti-Mormon sentiment of the period. The title "Mormon Expositor" is almost certainly a reference to the Nauvoo Expositor, the newspaper that led to the arrest and lynching of Joseph Smith, the mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois and the founder of the Mormon Church. The only issue of the Nauvoo Expositor, published by anti-polygamist ex-Mormons in June 1844, exposed Smith's practice of polygamy and accused him of teaching that church members could become gods. Enraged, Smith ordered the destruction of the press and declared martial law in Nauvoo, mobilizing the city militia. Smith was eventually charged with treason by the Governor of Illinois for declaring martial law; Smith fled and was later jailed, though a lynch mob killed both Smith and his brother, Hyrum, before they could be tried. The ambitions of the Mormon Expositor are both clear and lofty: to unearth scandalous information, whether true or false, that would lead to the overthrow of Brigham Young and other Mormon leaders. Note that this is the second of two printings produced in 1875, printed from the same type except for the title (see Flake-Draper, 5523). All printings are scarce. Flake-Draper calls a publication under the title "To the clergy of the Presbyterian Church" the "probable" first printing (Flake-Draper, 9677), which is rare, with only two recorded copies (both at BYU). The first printing is credited to Josiah Welch, whose name was removed for the second printing. We could not locate any information about Welch, which may have been a pseudonym; if Josiah Welch were the author's real name, however, removing it may have been out of concern for his safety, given the new, inflammatory title and the implication of sparking violence against Mormons. Very Good +. …

Second edition, following the 1849 Kanesville (i.e. Council Bluffs), Iowa edition. Octavo. Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp; untrimmed. Unopened. Foxing and light dust-soiling, primarily to first and final pages; Very Good. The founding document of the Territory of Deseret (i.e., Utah), supposedly drafted over several sessions of the Deseret settlement legislature in 1849. For evidence that these sessions never in fact took place, but were in fact drafted in closed sessions of the Council of Fifty, see Crawley, "The Constitution of the State of Deseret" in Brigham Young University Studies 29, no.4: ".Why the fictions of the March constitutional convention and the July session of the legislature? The obvious answer is that Congress would not have considered an application [for statehood] that had not been produced by a constituent convention and ratified by popular election." This Washington printing was preceded by the very scarce Kanesville [now Council Bluffs], Iowa edition of a year earlier. Per Streeter: "As no press was yet established in Utah this document was sent east to be printed at Kanesville." The Washington printing, a year later, though far more common is still quite infrequent in commerce; this a clean, unopened copy. FLAKE 2784. STREETER 2287. GRAFF 1061.…