The Pearl of Great Price: Being a Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith
by Smith, Joseph
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1891. Good. Smith, Joseph. The Pearl of Great Price: Being a Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith. SLC: George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1891. 90pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Black cloth with all-edges gilt and gilt embossed. Book condition: Good. Rear joint is cracked. Board corners and spine ends are rubbed. There is brief pencil marginalia on p. 50 and 51, and a contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown. Blanks on bookplate are not filled in. Facsimile no. 2 of the hypocephalus is missing its top half. The remaining, bottom half is torn in several places. The bookplate's poetic care instructions begin, If it is borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be, To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me.
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- Bookseller
- Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (US)
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- Title
- The Pearl of Great Price: Being a Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith
- Author
- Smith, Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Q. Cannon & Sons
- Date Published
- 1891
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Cracked
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- Gilt
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