Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. 580 pp. Octavo [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. "This is a work of true significance, Clayton's diaries contain information about the beginnings of plural marriage, the relationship of Joseph and Emma Smith, the initial meetings of the Council of Fifty, and... More about An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton
San Francisco: Smith Research Associates, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 234 pp. Octavo [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. "A veil of secrecy surrounds Mormon temple worship. While officially intended to preserve the sacredness of the experience, the silence leaves many Latter-day Saints mystified. What are the derivation and development of the holy... More about The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 396 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; cream paper covered boards in an illustrated dust jacket. "Was polygamy the downfall of the Strangite kingdom or was it something far more ominous and wide-reaching? Vickie Cleverley Speek examines the charismatic figure of James... More about God Has Made Us a Kingdom: James Strang and the Midwest Mormons
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 272pp. [19.5cm] Purple paper covered boards with silver stamped titles on the cover and spine. Black and white dust jacket with photo on front cover. New. From the publisher: Born in rural Idaho in the 1930s, her family moved to Bountiful... More about The Midwife; A Biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2012. Paperback. 728pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Fine/Fine. Mormon polygamy began in Nauvoo, Illinois, a river town located at a bend in the Mississippi about fifty miles upstream from Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri. After church founder Joseph Smith married some thirty-eight women, he... More about Nauvoo Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage"
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2005. Later printing. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 490 pp. with notes, bibliography, and index. Maroon full cloth binding with gold stamped titles, in pictoral dust jacket. A monumental new biography on one of the twentieth century's most beloved Mormon leaders. More about David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 282pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Over the past thirty years, an enormous amount of research has been conducted into Mormon origins—Joseph Smith’s early life, the Book of Mormon, the prophet’s visions, and the restoration of priesthood authority. Longtime LDS..... More about An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2006. Later printing. Hardcover. 788pp. Ocatvo [23.5 cm] Red boards. New in like jacket. Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that... More about In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2017. First edition. Paperback. 257 pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]; illustrated wraps. "In Mormonism we are sometimes seemingly casual about death: it's a veil or a mission call to the spirit world. But our actual encounters with the reality of death inevitably change us in... More about Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Draper, UT: Review and Preview Publishers, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 517pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with black vein patterns and gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. There is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. From the Preface- "Sages and prophets... More about Voices of Women Approbating Celestial or Plural Marriage Volume One: My Sacred Heritage
June, 1958. Hardcover. 151; 4pp. Quarto [28 cm] A thesis bound in sturdy light green cloth over boards, with minor traces of soil on the boards. The spine is just a trifle rolled back. Walter Murray Gibson, a colorful character, was a dominant figure in the Hawaiian Legislature. More about The Life and Intrigues of Walter Murray Gibson: A Thesis Presented to the Department of Church...
Paulmar, Inc., 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 224pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Glossy paper over boards. Index. Richly illustrated, some in color. A book relating the infrastructure of Harrisburg and Leeds, the recovery of silver from the deposits, the history of the disastrous fires in the community, the Treasure Trove of W.... More about Silver, Sinners and Saints: A History of Old Silver Reef, Utah
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 158pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth with a gilt stamped title on the front board. With a previous owner's ink stamps (4) on the endleaves. Else a lovely, clean copy. The first book published on Utah artists, architecture and... More about Devotees and Their Shrines: A Hand Book of Utah Art
Salt Lake City, UT: J.H. Parry & Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 254pp. Octavo [25 cm] Black cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine. With subtle sunning to the backstrip, and a previous owner's ink stamps (4) on the endleaves. Else a nice, clean copy. One of the... More about Book of Jasher. Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Publishing Co., 1892. Second edition. Hardcover. 205pp. Octavo [22cm]; black cloth with blind stamped floral border on front and back board. Gilt stamped title on front board. With only minor wear to the spine and boards, and a previous owner's ink stamp on each... More about An Examination Into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of...
Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1909. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth with a gilt stamped title on the front cover. There are four ink stamps from a previous owner on the endleaves. Faith-Promoting Series was a series of narratives created by the Juvenile Instructor... More about Leaves from my Journal: Third Book of the Faith-Promoting Series
Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon & Sons Publishing Company, 1900. Second edition. Hardcover. 162pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the front board, and blind stamped decorative borders on the boards. There is a previous owner's ink stamp on each pastedown... More about Succession in the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chicago: Published by the Missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1912. Later printing. Leather bound. Duodecimo [19 cm] Limp black leather wraps with a Tabernacle vignette within an oval stamped in gilt on the front cover. Red text block edges. Patterned endpapers. A very attractive copy... More about The Songs of Zion: A Collection of Choice Songs. Especially Selected and Arranged for The Home...
Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2003. LDS Church Gift Edition. Leather bound. 362pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark red leather with a portrait on the front board and the title in gilt on the backstrip. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Ivory white satin moire... More about Sermons and Writings of President Ezra Taft Benson
Salt Lake City, UT: La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias, 2005. Church Employee Gift Edition. Leather bound. 704pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Full blue leather with raised bands. Embossed portrait of Hinckley on front board with facsimile signature in gilt. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. The... More about Discursos Del Presidente Gordon B. Hinckley: Volumen 2, 2000-2004 (The Discourses of Gordon B....
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 493pp. Octavo [26 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth with beige paper over boards. Minor bumping at corners and scuffing on rear board. In a dust jacket, with sun toning to the spine and minor staining. Inscribed by the author in... More about Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, December 15, 2007. Hardcover. Octavo [23.5cm]; in shrinkwrap. The LDS hierarchy was divided in 1837 over the militarization of the church in Missouri. Many in the leadership eventually reconciled, but one of the twelve apostles, William E. McLellin, became what might be termed a.... More about The William E. McLellin Papers
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 179pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; blue wraps. Joseph Smith was not the first to found a Christian denomination, but his addition of a new book of scripture on par with the Bible set him and his movement apart. Even before 1830, Smith was... More about Faith & Intellect: The Lives and Contributions of Latter-Day Saint Thinkers
Salt Lake City, UT: Publisher's Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 247pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. The rear cover has numerous very light stains. Internally very clean. Illustrated. Purported history of Thomas and Caleb Rhoades and the alleged lost gold mines of the... More about Footprints in the Wilderness: A History of The Lost Rhoades Mines