From Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since April 8, 2003
About this Item
[417-423]; 416pp. 52 numbers, averaging 8pp. each. Folio [39 cm] Contemporary 1/4 leather binding with limp boards which maintain some of the original marbled paper. Professionally recased. Restoration work to spine ends. Formerly exposed boards skillfully restored with handmade paper at the extremities. Hinges reinforced with Japanese tissue. Missing front front free endpaper. Periodic minor markings to the pages, else internally very good. Flake 2822. A complete run of this volume, of particular significance due to the historical events embraced by the year 1857-58: the Mormon "War," the Mountain Meadows massacre, the incursion of federal troops against Utah, the Reformation, etc. Included is a major portion of the serialized "History of Joseph Smith," and the beginning of the serialization of Brigham Young's autobiography, numerous documents by Young, dispatches from the outside press relevant to the situation, discourses by Elders, etc. Also noteworthy is the printing of Young's December 15, 1857 Governor's Message in the Dec. 23 issue; the Memorials to the President of the United States printed in the October 7 issue; and other major items relating to the conflict, possibly in their earliest printings, as well as much material related to overland travel, freighting, commerce, and more. Seller Inventory # 58075
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Deseret News. Truth and Liberty. Volume ...
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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Ken Sanders Rare Books - Corporation
268 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
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