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. In today's market, nice--above average-- copies of the first edition Book of Mormon sell for around $100,000. There were also four other editions of the Book of Mormon printed during the life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet [1805-1844]. The second edition, which is more scarce than the first edition, was printed in Kirtland, Ohio in 1837. The third edition was printed in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1840. The first European edition was printed in Liverpool in 1841. And finally, there was another edition ( of a little over 600 copies) printed in Nauvoo in 1842. In 2014, a complete set, as shown in the attached photo, would sell for over $250,000.
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Showing posts with label first european edition of the book of mormon - liverpool. Show all posts
Friday, November 14, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Brigham Young gave this First Edition [European] BOOK OF MORMON to Helen Mar Kimball when she was 13 years old.
First European Edition of the Book of Mormon [1841]. The story behind my new acquisition.
This past weekend I enjoyed reading Holzapfel's "A Woman's View: Helen Mar [Kimball] Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History". In this book, Helen recounts, "The Prophet Joseph Smith and two or three brethren called at our house to hear a letter read from father [Heber C. Kimball]. Joseph, who stood by the bureau, where a couple of china dolls were standing on two large salt cellars (which had been sent from England to my mother [Vilate]) picked one of the dolls up to look at, but in replacing it sat it upon one side--and it fell, breaking the doll's head off. He then merely remarked: "As that has fallen, so shall the heathen gods fall." I stood there a silent observer, unable to understand or appreciate the prophetic words, but thought them a rather weak apology for breaking my doll's head off. My mother afterwards mended it, and though like most of us it shows signs of age, and that it has passed through many ordeals, yet I have kept it, with two or three other little tokens which I received from England....Including a Book of Mormon. My brother William and I received each a beautifully bound BOOK OF MORMON from "Uncle" Brigham Young, with our names printed upon the back in gilt letters...I have read mine through by course more times than any other book I ever saw, and each time it has proved more interesting; I was never more deeply fascinated by a novel than I have been with the Book of Mormon. I've attached two photographs of Helen Mar Kimball's 1841 copy of the Book of Mormon. Earlier this week I got a phone call asking if I was interested in acquiring it....Well, needless to say, I was on a plane 12 hours later. I now own this beautiful book--along
with it's enlightening story.....http://www.pinterest.com/pin/164662930100586877/
This past weekend I enjoyed reading Holzapfel's "A Woman's View: Helen Mar [Kimball] Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History". In this book, Helen recounts, "The Prophet Joseph Smith and two or three brethren called at our house to hear a letter read from father [Heber C. Kimball]. Joseph, who stood by the bureau, where a couple of china dolls were standing on two large salt cellars (which had been sent from England to my mother [Vilate]) picked one of the dolls up to look at, but in replacing it sat it upon one side--and it fell, breaking the doll's head off. He then merely remarked: "As that has fallen, so shall the heathen gods fall." I stood there a silent observer, unable to understand or appreciate the prophetic words, but thought them a rather weak apology for breaking my doll's head off. My mother afterwards mended it, and though like most of us it shows signs of age, and that it has passed through many ordeals, yet I have kept it, with two or three other little tokens which I received from England....Including a Book of Mormon. My brother William and I received each a beautifully bound BOOK OF MORMON from "Uncle" Brigham Young, with our names printed upon the back in gilt letters...I have read mine through by course more times than any other book I ever saw, and each time it has proved more interesting; I was never more deeply fascinated by a novel than I have been with the Book of Mormon. I've attached two photographs of Helen Mar Kimball's 1841 copy of the Book of Mormon. Earlier this week I got a phone call asking if I was interested in acquiring it....Well, needless to say, I was on a plane 12 hours later. I now own this beautiful book--along
with it's enlightening story.....http://www.pinterest.com/pin/164662930100586877/
Monday, January 6, 2014
Did you know that there were five editions of the BOOK OF MORMON printed during the life of Joseph Smith? I've just recorded a video that shows all five editions and their title pages. Take a look...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZnnOwQkRVc
Friday, December 27, 2013
Besides the first edition Book of Mormon, there were four other editions printed during the life of Joseph Smith: the second edition in Kirtland [1837], the third edition in Nauvoo [1840], the first European in Liverpool [1841l] and the fifth edition in Nauvoo [1842]. The copies shown (1837, 40, 41, 42) are some of the finest surviving copies in the world.
www.moonsrarebooks.com http://www.pinterest.com/pin/164662930099971652/
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