mormons joseph smith (2 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Thus. Oblong (9cm x 15cm) card stock, gilt stamped on gray. 11 of 12 (first one missing) color litho post cards bound by perforation (one detached). Verso of last card with owner's name/place: "Miss Kezia Esplin, Orderville, Utah". Ms. Esplin's (1882-1968) name/genealogy is found on the internet. Other than one missing card, vg copy, moderately soiled front cover. Flake 8393.

12mo. viii, [9]-120 pp. With 2 woodcut-engraved plates. Black embossed publisher's cloth, gilt decorative lettering on front cover (minor tears & hinges starting to flyleaves, soiling, edgewear, wear to corners & minor bumping, occasional pencil markings, 1 leaf w/ underlining), still a good reference copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of what is considered to be one of the most complete accounts of the deaths of Joseph & Hyrum Smith. Littlefield (1819-1893) was a printer & newspaper editor whose parents converted to the Church of Latter-Day Saints, and was baptized into the Church at 1834, later worked as printer in newspapers in Missouri & Illinois, lived in Nauvoo beginning in 1842 while working for Times & Seasons, and eventually migrated to Salt Lake Valley in Sept., 1859. He was asked to write this account by the publishers.