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191 ● (MORMONS.) The Book of Mormon. 12mo, modern full calf; minor foxing,
lacking 2 internal leaves (pages 149-153). In modern 1/4 calf folding case.
Nauvoo, IL: Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, 1840 [4,000/6,000]
Third edition, first state (unbroken text on page 9, without the index leaves issued in 1841).
Only about 2,000 copies were prepared in the first state, and about the same of the later states,
making it a smaller print run than the 1830 first edition. It is thus considerably scarcer at auction;
no other copies known at auction in the past 15 years (the last being at Swann, 11 September
1997, lot 373). Crawley 83; Flake 597; Howes S623 (“aa”); Sabin 83040; Streeter sale
IV:2263.