(MORMONS) Greene John P Facts Relative to the Expulsion of t

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THE EBERSTADT-STREETER-SLATER COPY (MORMONS.) Greene, John P. Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri, under the "Exterminating Order." 43 pages. 8vo, publisher's printed tan wrappers, moderate wear and soiling; minor dampstaining, soiling to pages 24-25, two short closed tears; Streeter's pencil notes on title page, and his monogram book tag on the inside rear wrapper. In a 1/4 morocco slipcase. (MRS) Cincinnati, OH, 1839

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first edition, first issue. In 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs ordered: "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State, if necessary." The author John Portineus Greene (a brother-in-law of Brigham Young) was appointed to gather documentary evidence of the ensuing repression, some of which he witnessed personally, and which he had published in about July 1839. Crawley 55; Flake 3710; Graff 1648; Howes G382 ("aa"); Sabin 28606. Provenance: sold by Edward Eberstadt & Sons to Thomas W. Streeter, 1928; Parke-Bernet's Streeter sale, 23 April 1968, lot IV:2270, to the consignor. Only two other copies of either issue have been traced at auction since this one, both at Swann.