Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MORMONS.) Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate. [209]-224 pages. 8vo, disbound; minor foxing, cello tape repairs to final leaf. Kirtland, OH, November 1835

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This monthly magazine was the seminal source on the young church's years in Kirtland, OH, and only the second periodical issued by the Latter Day Saints. This is one of 10 issues edited by John Whitmer. The first three pages are devoted to a letter from Joseph Smith titled "To the Elders of the Church of Latter Day Saints." Crawley 16 ("the basic source for the study of Mormonism's Ohio period"); Flake 4778; Sabin 50743.