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SECOND EDITION (MORMONS.) [The Book of Mormon.] 12mo, contemporary sheep, moderate wear, gilt "Book of Mormon" faintly visible on backstrip; lacking title page and final two leaves Z10-11, lacking free endpapers, corners cropped with loss of many page numbers, moderate dampstaining and edge wear, pin holes through pages 323-348; illegible early pencil inscription on front pastedown. Laid in are seven pages of early notes on the Book of Mormon, and an advertising card depicting Temple Square. [Kirtland, OH: Oliver Cowdery for Parley Pratt & John Goodson, 1837]
Second edition--the first to list Joseph Smith as translator rather than author, and the first printed within the faith. It was extensively revised from the first edition after comparison with the original manuscript. More than 3000 changes have been noted from the first edition, all of them carried forward into future editions. Crawley 35; Flake 596; Sabin 83039.
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