Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MORMONS.) Howe, Eber D. Mormonism Unvailed: or, A Faithful Account of that Singular Imposition and Delusion. 290 pages. 8vo, contemporary plain cloth, detached from text block; lacking frontispiece, foxing, partially disbound; early owner's signature on rear free endpaper. (MRS) Painesville, OH, 1834

Additional Details

One of the earliest and most influential anti-Mormon tracts, by an author who lived near the settlement at Kirtland. Flake 4104; Howes H717 ("b": " the first to exploit the Spaulding manuscript and the best contemporary account of Mormon activities in Ohio"); Sabin 33290; Streeter sale IV:2264. None known at auction since 1983.