Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MORMONS.) Garner, Henry. Songs and Verses. 12 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, minor wear, rebacked; a bit wrinkled, brief manuscript note on first page. [London, 1884?]

Additional Details

A small book of poems by Henry Garner (1833-1920), an early member of the church who first came to Utah in 1849. He wrote these poems in Notting Hill, London in 1884 while serving as president of the Whitechapel Mission, and returned to Utah the following year. Subject matter includes odes to various Whitechapel brethren, two poems on priestcraft, and several references to Joseph Smith. OCLC lists only one copy, at Brigham Young; Flake 3508a lists one copy at the Church Historical Department.