Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1992
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good +. Reprint. 362pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Illustrated wraps. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Tracing back to the 1830's Richard S. Von Wagoner wraps together the history of Polygamy to the present. Inquiring on it's affects politically and religiously in society.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Paperback. Reprint. 216pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black and green wrappers. Fine. New Book. The decades framing the turn of the twentieth century constituted a period of progressive optimism, of increasing faith in science and technology, and of character-building educationâ"vividly illustrated in the founding of Christian Science, for example, and in the Latter-day Saint magazine, the Improvement Era. In keeping with the times, it is not surprising that former professor of chemistry and university president John A. Widtsoe was called to the LDS Quorum of Twelve Apostles in 1921. An inheritor and promoter of "reasonable" religion, his popular book, Joseph Smith as Scientist, and his influential LDS Melchizedek priesthood manual (later released as a book), Rational Theology, underscored his and other Mormon leaders' positivist assumptions about the worldâ"that science was good, that Mormonism would be proven true, and, drawing from Herbert Spencer's application of evolution to ethics, that society would be perfected. Like Widtsoe's secular books (published nationally and internationally by Macmillan, Webb, and J. Wiley & Sons), Rational Theology would enjoy multiple printings domestically and several foreign translations. Although his other church writings (Evidences and Reconciliations, The Gospel in the Service of Man, Guide Posts to Happiness: The Right to Personal Satisfaction, and others) proved to be influential, none so thoroughly summarized his embrace of science and Mormonism as Rational Theology.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1998
ISBN 10: 1560851198 ISBN 13: 9781560851196
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: As NEW. First Edition. Anthology of LDS writers of fiction, with contributions by Phyllis Barber, Ron Carlson, Brian Evenson, Walter Kirn, Pauline Mortensen, Levi S. Peterson, Dorothy Solomon, and others. New book with no flaws.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1991
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Paperback. Zustand: As NEW. Later printing. 373 pp. A landmark book on the subject.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999
ISBN 10: 1560851295 ISBN 13: 9781560851295
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. 240pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Sea-green cloth over boards with gilt stamping. In a dust jacket, with light rubbing to the panels. A detailed view of LDS history from the modern period. From the dust jacket- "Reflecting the optimism of his time, Henry D. Moyle (1889-1963), counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS church, approached every endeavor on a grand scale. He thought the Church Office Building should have been twice its existing twenty-eight stories. As overseer of the Church Building Committee, he spearheaded a bold spend-now, pay-later policy ('Build for the next ten years') on the assumption that larger chapels would attract more converts. Ultimately these utopian views proved unfeasible. As the church neared bankruptcy President David O. McKay found it necessary to relieve Moyle of all administrative responsibilities. Even so, Moyle influence can be seen today.".
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004
ISBN 10: 1560851848 ISBN 13: 9781560851844
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As NEW. First edition. Attractive hardbound in pictorial dust jacket. 224 pp. with index. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Contains profiles of Utah pioneer women.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 2003
ISBN 10: 1560851678 ISBN 13: 9781560851677
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: As NEW. Reprint. 728 pp. 20cm. Black boards with brown dustjacket that emulates original leather. Foreword by James P. Harris. Text is an exact photomechanical reproduction of the first edition 'The Articles of Faith.' This reprint couples 'The Articles of Faith' with a reprint of 'Latter-Day Revelation.'.
Verlag: Signature Books in Association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 2006
ISBN 10: 1560850604 ISBN 13: 9781560850601
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Third Printing. 928pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. The book shows minor wear to the extremities. In the dust jacket, with moderate rubbing to the edges, and a 1" closed tear to the top edge. The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are related to current or past general church authorities. This dynastic hierarchy meets in private; neither its minutes nor the church's finances are available for public review. Members are reassured by public relations spokesmen that all is well and that harmony prevails among these brethren. But by interviewing former church aides, examining hundreds of diaries, and drawing from his own past experience as an insider within the Latter-day Saint historical department, D. Michael Quinn presents a fuller view. His extensive research documents how the governing apostles, seventies, and presiding bishops are likely to be at loggerheads, as much as united. These strong-willed, independent men-like directors of a large corporation or supreme court justices-lobby among their colleagues, forge alliances, outmaneuver opponents, and broker compromises. There is more: clandestine political activities, investigative and punitive actions by church security forces, personal "loans" from church coffers (later written off as bad debts), and other privileged power-vested activities. Quinn considers the changing role and attitude of the leadership toward visionary experiences, the momentous events which have shaped quorum protocol and doctrine, and day-to-day bureaucratic intrigue from the time of Brigham Young to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The hierarchy seems at root well-intentioned and even at times aggressive in fulfilling its stated responsibility, which is to expedite the Second Coming. Where they have become convinced that God has spoken, they have set aside personal differences, offered unqualified support, and spoken with a unified voice. This potential for change, when coupled with the tempering effect of competing viewpoints, is something Quinn finds encouraging about Mormonism. But one should not assume that these men are infallible or work in anything approaching uninterrupted unanimity.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 2005
ISBN 10: 1560851899 ISBN 13: 9781560851899
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As NEW. First edition. 613 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over tan boards. Fine/Fine. New Book. An important study of the long and varied relationship between the Mormonism and the Women's Movement, from early Relief Society support of women's suffrage to the defeat with strong Latter-day Saint support of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1994
ISBN 10: 1560850566 ISBN 13: 9781560850564
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: As NEW. 685pp. [23.5 cm]. New. Hardcover. Historian D. Michael Quinn examines the contradictions and confusion of the first two tumultuous decades of LDS history. He demonstrates how events and doctrines were silently, retroactively inserted into the published form of scriptures and records to smooth out the stormy, haphazard development. The bureaucratization of Mormonism was inevitable, but the manner in which it occurred was unpredictable and will be, for readers, fascinating.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Review copy. 348pp. Octavo [23 cm] White paper spine with dark red paper wraps. Very good. The extremities are very slightly rubbed and soiled. The spine is yellowed. Internally, clean and bright. Another volume in the award winning Signature Diary Series. Engaging read of the personal thoughts and musings of the "Defender of the Faith.".
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007
ISBN 10: 1560851953 ISBN 13: 9781560851950
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Paperback. Uncorrected Galley. 367pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Softcover. Fine condition. From the Introduction- "My intent for this volume is strictly educational; my goal to provide an accessible collection of instructive, informative excerpts.".
Verlag: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013
ISBN 10: 1560852267 ISBN 13: 9781560852261
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Hardcover. Limited edition, review copy. 687pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with light green printed cloth panels. Orange endsheets and pastedowns. With a frontispiece portrait of Anthony W. Ivins. Includes an index. Volume in the acclaimed Signature Books diary series. This edition is limited to five hundred copies, of which this is an unnumbered review copy. Near fine condition. Anthony W. Ivins (1852-1934) migrated to St. George, Utah, at age nine where he later became an influential civic and ecclesiastical leader. He married Elizabeth A. Snow, daughter of apostle Erastus F. Snow. Ivins was a first cousin of Heber J. Grant, and served as his counselor while Grant was LDS president. Ivins filled several Mormon missions to Mexico and presided as the Juarez, Mexico stake president where he performed post-manifesto marriages. He was appointed by the U.S. government as an Indian agent, and was warmly acquainted with Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico. Involved in politics in St. George, Ivins held aspirations of running as a Democrat for governor of Utah. In 1907, he was ordained an apostle and later advanced to the First Presidency. Tone, as he called himself, was an accomplished horseman who worked with, and invested in, livestock. He was a game-hunting cowboy who became a statesman for both his country and his expanding religious community. Though in his correspondence Ivins expressed paramount concern for members of his family, he rarely mentions them in his journals. Rather, his diaries chronicle his business and religious observations including meetings with the Quorum of the Twelve and others. He records meetings of the apostles where decisions were made to remove Church leaders from office who had entered into polygamy after 1904, and details the Church's dealings with the Mexican government to safeguard the Mormon colonists. There are also discussions where doctrinal principles were clarified. For example, in 1912, Ivins reported that President Joseph F. Smith addressed Brigham Young's Adam God teachings and affirmed that it was "not a doctrine of the Church." Ivins clearly loved the ruggedness of outdoor life, as evidenced in his passion for hunting, but was also intrigued with the curiosities at the Utah State Fair, the entertaining showmanship of Buffalo Bill, and the refinement of the theater. Tragedy became commonplace as he recorded vigilante-like justice against Indians and Mexicans who were killed for stealing food, and witnessing the execution of John D. Lee, a once favored son of Mormonism. Appendices of Cowboy Apostle include Ivins Record Book of Marriage and an essay by Ivins son, H. Grant Ivins titled "Polygamy in Mexico as Practiced by the Mormon Church, 1895-1905.".
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1991
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good+. First edition. 484pp. Octavo. Blue cloth. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. In pictorial dust jacket. Very good/Near fine. Spotting to head of fore edge and minor staining to fore edge. Thoughtful biography of the fourth Prophet of the LDS Church.
Verlag: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999
ISBN 10: 1560851260 ISBN 13: 9781560851264
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 410pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with the title stamped in red gilt on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Very minor bend damage to the top front inner panel of the dust jacket, otherwise book is in As New condition. There was frustration in Oliver Cowdery's 4 February 1835 letter to Bishop Newel K. Whitney. Oliver Cowdery was trying to acquire "the original copy of . The Law of the Church" and had so far been unable to locate a reliable source. He even confessed publicly to being "not a little surprised" in preparing the revelations of Joseph Smith for publication "to find the previous print[ing in the church newspaper] so different from the original." The problem, as historian Richard P. Howard has noted, was that Cowdery was using "a different original" from what he had seen four years earlier. Indeed, agrees author H. Michael Marquardt, it is apparent that the 1835 version of Smith's revelations was a "revised, expanded text that contained material anachronistic to the original 1831 setting." More specifically, many documents were "added to, excised, and in some cases assigned different historical settings. . Among other emendations, the changes softened language, reinterpreted economic matters, added offices existing at the time of revision, and inserted references to priesthood restoration." Where events had "not unfolded as proposed," prophecies were reevaluated and, where necessary, revised. What does it matter? Many of the changes are significant, whether one sees them as historical curiosities, background to the intent of now ambiguous passages, or as insight into God's "line upon line" dealings with mortal men and women. The latter may be the most important, as the "evolution of the canon" implies something about the nature of revelation itself. The obvious casualty for anyone undertaking a careful study of church documents is the assumption of infallibility versus a fluid, dynamic model of revelation, what Marquardt calls the "richness of the living text as it is transformed over time." This new understanding reveals "important, fundamental vistas" for understanding doctrine, policy, and history.
Verlag: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 1989
ISBN 10: 094121477X ISBN 13: 9780941214773
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. Limited Edition. SIGNED. 286pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light gray and sky blue cloth spine and boards. This volume is #88 of only 500 copies issued. Light gray silk ribbon bookmark fastened at the head of the spine. Light gray endpapers. With just a few traces of trivial soiling to the extremities, and a minor nick in the cloth near the spine. This copy is inscribed by the editor, John Sillito, on the front free endpaper. The editor writes, "13 May 99. For____. Thanks for your interest in (?). It was nice to meet you. Best Regards, John Sillito.".
Verlag: Signature Books/Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997
ISBN 10: 1560850515 ISBN 13: 9781560850519
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Limited Edition. SIGNED. 794pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray and orange printed cloth cloth boards. Textblock beginning to lift from head of spine. Number 40 of 500. Later installment in the Signature Diary series. Smoot was the first Utah Senator as well as prominent leader in the LDS Church, serving as an Apostle, and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Verlag: Signature Books in association with Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT, 2006
ISBN 10: 1560851856 ISBN 13: 9781560851851
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Octavo [24 cm] Full gray and blue cloth. 822 pages. Index. This edition is strictly limited to 500 copies, of which this is #104. This copy has been signed with the date "06/06/06" by the editor, John P. Hatch, on the title page. Volume ten in the highly regarded Signature Books diary series. Anthon Lund was a counselor in Joseph F. Smith's presidency, and the only monogamist at the time of his ordination. "Lund's accounts of the inner workings of the church hierarchy are at times formal but otherwise chatty, the latter quality making him a favorite diarist among historians." - Signature Books.
Verlag: Signature Books in Association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. SIGNED. 685; 928pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. In dust jackets with sunning to the spine (title still bold), and occasional shallow edge tears. Nice copies of these scholarly works by the noted (and sometimes controversial) historian. Companion volumes. The first volume is inscribed by the author on the title page: "To___, Thanks for the contributions of your ancestors to this study! D. Michael Quinn." The second volume is signed (signature only) by D. Michael Quinn on the title page.
Verlag: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 1990
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Limited edition. 700pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with red printed cloth panels. Green endpapers. With a frontispiece portrait of John Henry Smith. Off white satin ribbon page marker laid in. Includes an index. Spine is rolled. Inscription from the editor on the front free end paper reads, "To a student and devoted follower of Utah history, Ezra T. Clark. --John Bickmore White March 1991" Volume in the acclaimed Signature Books diary series. This edition is limited to five hundred copies, of which this is copy number 154. Smith was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, and a General Authority in Joseph F. Smith's Presidency, after the death of John R. Winder. Smith was also the Chair of the Utah Constitutional Convention. From the publisher- "Jean Bickmore White has a long-standing interest in Utah political history. She holds an M.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, both in political science. While writing her dissertation on Utah politics in the 1890s, she first read John Henry Smith's extensive journals and letters and recognized their importance in understanding the politics of that period in Utah history. A professor of political science at Weber State University since 1969, she has published articles and book reviews in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Weber Studies, the Journal of the Mormon History, and the Charles Redd Center Monograph Series.".
Verlag: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, UT, 1990
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Hardcover. Limited edition. 700pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with red printed cloth panels. Green endpapers. With a frontispiece portrait of John Henry Smith. Includes an index. With a a couple of thin, light vertical marks on the backstrip. The longer mark measures 6" Volume in the acclaimed Signature Books diary series. This edition is limited to five hundred copies, of which this is copy number 372. Smith was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, and a General Authority in Joseph F. Smith's Presidency, after the death of John R. Winder. Smith was also the Chair of the Utah Constitutional Convention. From the publisher- "Jean Bickmore White has a long-standing interest in Utah political history. She holds an M.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, both in political science. While writing her dissertation on Utah politics in the 1890s, she first read John Henry Smith's extensive journals and letters and recognized their importance in understanding the politics of that period in Utah history. A professor of political science at Weber State University since 1969, she has published articles and book reviews in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Weber Studies, the Journal of the Mormon History, and the Charles Redd Center Monograph Series.".