1830 First edition, Book of Mormon, loose page, page 339, 340 ALMA Chapter XIX, XX. Very good condition, age staining, no holes or tears. What is a First Edition Book? In publishing terms, a first edition book is all copies that were printed from the same setting of type as when first published. The book is only described as a second edition if significant. The Ten Most Expensive Mormon Books. To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. I have been selling rare Mormon books for almost 3. During that time, I’ve seen the price of a first edition Book of Mormon [1. With a six- figure price tag, I think that most people would be surprised to learn that on a list of the “Ten Most Expensive Mormon Books“, a first edition Book of Mormon does not rank at the top–in fact, it comes in at #9! I have compiled this list with the help of several notable book dealers who also specialize in rare Mormon books. This list will rank the ten most expensive Mormon books and give a price that could be expected to be paid for a copy that is in very good to near fine condition. As with all collectibles, prices can vary dramatically based on condition. Here is the list of the “Ten Most Expensive Mormon Books“: 1) Book of Commandments [1. Many of you know the story of Mary Elizabeth Rollins. She was the young woman who, with the aid of her younger sister Caroline, rescued some of the sheets of the Book of Commandments that had been scattered in the streets after a mob destroyed the press in Independence, Missouri on July 2.
1916 Book of Mormon First Independence Edition 0 results. You may also like. Le Livre de Mormon: The Book of Mormon (French edition) by Joseph Smith. $56.59; Buy It Now; 1830 PAGE 21 / 22 RARE 1st EDITION BOOK OF MORMON. Traduit de L’Anglais: The First French Book of Mormon Richard D. McClellan Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11/1 (2002). in producing the first French edition of that book, the church did the best it could. Between June. Very few copies have survived. In fact, there are only about 3. At an acquisition price of over a million dollars, the Book of Commandments is the most expensive book on this list. In fact, it could be on almost any list of the “most expensive books“. The Evening and Morning Star [1. This was the first Mormon newspaper. A prospectus, written by W. W. Phelps, indicated that this paper would be devoted to “the revelations of God as made known to his servants by the Holy Ghost, at sundry times since the creation of man, but more especially in these last days.” The Evening and Morning Star contained some the first printed revelations of Joseph Smith. The circulation was very small, perhaps no more than a few hundred copies were printed, and when publication ceased (due to the destruction of the press at Independence) very few complete runs existed. The entire twenty- four issues were reprinted in Kirtland between January 1. October 1. 83. 6. Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, 1. The Kirtland reprint of The Evening and Morning Star is also quite rare and sells for around $1. The first edition BOOK OF MORMON was printed in 1830 in Palmyra, New York. As few as 500 copies ( out of the original 5,000) have survived. There were also four other editions of the Book of Mormon printed during the life of.A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Selected by Emma Smith [1. This was the first LDS (Mormon) hymnal. The publication of this hymnal had its beginnings in a revelation received by Joseph Smith in July 1. Emma Smith, was designated to make a selection of hymns for the use of the Church. This revelation is now recorded in Section 2. Doctrine and Covenants. This small, pocket- sized hymnal contains the text of ninety hymns. Of the ninety hymns, most were borrowed from contemporary Christian hymn books–including seventeen written by Isaac Watts. Thirty- five of the ninety were written by members of the Church–including 2. W. W. Phelps, three by Parley P. Pratt, one by Thomas B. Marsh and Parley P. Pratt, and one each by Eliza R. Snow, Edward Partridge, and Philo Dibble. Crawley, 1: 5. 7- 5. The Spirit of God” by W. W. Phelps was hymn #9. There are fewer than ten copies of this Emma Smith hymnal in private hands. Messenger and Advocate [1. The Messenger and Advocate was a monthly periodical published in Kirtland, Ohio. It was the successor to The Evening and Morning Star. It was the voice of the Church from 1. The tone of the magazine reflected the theological ferment that characterized the Kirtland Church. Its pages included doctrinal essays, official statements of the Church leaders, announcements and minutes of conferences, news of the progress of the Church in Kirtland and elsewhere, responses to anti- Mormon attacks, and letters from the outlying branches“. Crawley, 1: 4. 9) 5) Doctrine and Covenants [1. First edition. $1. On September 2. 4, 1. Independence was destroyed, another effort to print Joseph Smith’s revelations in book form was made. The Kirtland high council appointed Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams to select the contents and publish the book. Crawley, 1: 5. 4). This book of revelations would no longer be called A Book of Commandments. Rather, this new volume of scripture, with the addition of the Lectures on Faith, would be called Doctrine and Covenants. A year later, in September 1. Doctrine and Covenants came off the press. There are as few as seventy- five surviving copies. A Collection of Sacred Hymns For the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Selected by Emma Smith. Nauvoo – 1. 84. 1] $1. By the summer of 1. Kirtland) was out of print, and in July, just before the apostles left for their missions to England, Joseph Smith and the Twelve met to select hymns for a new book. Three months later the general conference in Nauvoo voted to publish a new edition of the hymns immediately. This decision was reaffirmed October 2. Nauvoo high council which directed Emma Smith to “select and publish a hymn- book for the use of the Church,” and the next day designated Oliver Granger to raise funds for the publication. Crawley, 1: 1. 54). Significant changes were made to this edition of the hymnbook. This new Nauvoo edition had 3. Kirtland edition. Twenty four of the new hymns were by Isaac Watts, seven by Charles Wesley, and ten more by Mormon authorship: three each by Eliza R. Snow and Mary Judd Page, and one each by Hosea Stout, Robert B. Thompson, W. W. Phelps, and Austin Cowles. Crawley, 1: 5. 5). Ka Buke a Moramona – Hawaiian – Book of Mormon [1. First edition . $1. In 1. 85. 0 Elder George Q. Cannon was called as a missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. With the help of Jonatana Napela, an early convert and first native Hawaiian to receive his temple endowment, they were able to translate the Book of Mormon into the Hawaiian language. The translation took several years. With the translation finished [1. George Q. Cannon printed 3,0. Hawaiian Book of Mormon in San Francisco. This was done on a press that was purchased with the help of funds donated by the Hawaiian Saints. Although 3,0. President Brigham Young. The remainder were left unbound. Unfortunately, in 1. Between one and two dozen copies have survived. Das Buch Mormon – German – Book of Mormon [1. First Edition. $1. In 1. 85. 1, members of the Church in Denmark were the first to read the Book of Mormon in their native language. The following year the Book of Mormon was printed in four additional languages: Welsh, Italian, French and German. After John Taylor finished supervising the translation of the Book of Mormon into French, he went to Germany to supervise that translation. With the help of a German school teacher George Viett and George P. Dykes, a Scandanavian missionary who knew the German language, the work of translation began. During the translation process, these men also engaged in some missionary work and baptized a man named John Miller, who joined the translation team. “But when threatened with arrest, Elder Taylor left Germany with the translation only half done. But he had planned ahead. Before initially going to Germany, he had asked President Young to send Daniel Carn, a German convert in the United States, to Germany to be a mission president and assist in the translation work. Elder Taylor met Carn in London and sent him on to Hamburg. He arrived in April 1. President Carn, Dykes, Viett and Miller finished the project in May”. (Deseret News, “Book of Mormon Translation: German”, Trent Toone, Feb. Best estimates are that between 1. Book of Mormon [1. First Edition. $1. Five thousand copies were printed by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York in 1. The cost was $3,0. As security, Martin Harris gave Egbert B. Grandin a mortgage on his farm. The pricing history of the first edition Book of Mormon is quite interesting. The first missionaries typically sold this book for $1. I have seen that price written in several copies. A few years ago, I bought a copy that had the inscription, “Bought on the Mississippi River – 1. Price $1. 2. 5”. One hundred twenty years later, in the 1. By the 1. 96. 0s, copies could be purchased for $1. In the 1. 97. 0s the priced passed the $1,0. And, as mentioned earlier, in the late 1. And now, nicer copies are consistently selling for around $1. There are, however, factors that can dramatically increase the price of a first edition Book of Mormon or any other of the previously mentioned books. And that is the provenance – or prior ownership of a book. A good example is the Joseph Smith, Jr. Bible. This Bible–from the early 1. However, because of the important provenance of that Bible, in 2. And, Hyrum Smith’s first edition Book of Mormon sold several years ago for almost one million dollars. I own Samuel Smith’s first edition Book of Mormon [1. It is one of my favorite acquisitions–for me, you can’t get much better than owning the first edition Book of Mormon that belonged to the very first missionary. Of the 5,0. And of these 5. 00, there are about 1. So, there will only ever be a pool of about 4. A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, in Europe. Selected by Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, and John Taylor. Manchester, England – 1. Although it was intended for the Church in the British Isles, the 1. Manchester hymnal became the basis of all the official LDS hymnals during the last half of the 1. Because of the large number of British converts and the expense of book printing in the Great Basin, thirteen editions were published in England before one was finally printed in Salt Lake City in 1. Crawley, 1: 1. 21).___________________And, just in case you were wondering how the prices of these books compare to some of the classics, here are a few: You could buy a beautiful first edition three- volume set of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice [1. You could even buy a first edition, first printing of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings [1.
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