Editore: Greg Kofford Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2002
ISBN 10: 1589580184 ISBN 13: 9781589580183
Da: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Paperback. First Edition, First Printing. 231p. A softcover book in fine condition. The text is clean and the biding tight.
Editore: Greg Kofford Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008
ISBN 10: 1589581113 ISBN 13: 9781589581111
Da: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: New. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2008. New. NEAR PERFECT CONDITION. The cover shows just a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Flat spine. NO chips, tears, rubbing, fading or creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. 2008. Revised, Updated and with more photographs than the 1982 edition. Bound in the original orange and black pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles -- and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism's first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this 'pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice.' It was 'an eschatological, pre-millennial world in which every individual teetered between salvation and damnation and in which unsanitary privies and appropriating a stray cow held the same potential for eternal doom as blasphemy and adultery.' Updated and newly illustrated with more photographs, this second edition of the award-winning documentary history (first published in 1982) chronicles Grant's ubiquitous role in the Mormon history of the 1840s and '50s. In addition to serving as counselor to Brigham Young during two tumultuous and influential years at the end of his life, he also portentously befriended Thomas L. Kane, worked to temper his unruly brother-in-law William Smith, captained a company of emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and journeyed to the East on several missions to bolster the position of the Mormons during the crises surrounding the runaway judges affair and the public revelation of polygamy. Jedediah Morgan Grant's voice rises powerfully in these pages, startling in its urgency in summoning his people to sacrifice and moving in its tenderness as he communicated to his family. From hastily scribbled letters to extemporaneous sermons exhorting obedience, and the notations of still stunned listeners, the sound of "Mormon Thunder" rolls again in 'a boisterous amplification of what Mormonism really was, and would never be again.'" Keywords: Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Softcover. New. xxx, 465pp. + ads. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Editore: Greg Kofford Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019
ISBN 10: 1589587650 ISBN 13: 9781589587656
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. CX3 - A hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Book lightly cocked, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 210 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American Westnarrates the wide-ranging life and times of John P. Hawley's search for and service to an authentic Mormon faith. Melvin C. Johnson has been researching Hawley's adventurous life along the American borderlands and frontier for three decades. Hawley was an active member of several Latter Day Restoration denominations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas, the Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and Utah Territory from 1838 to 1909. A Mormon Ulysses follows Hawley's adventures in the West growing up as a logger, woodworker, settler, church official and missionary. He helped build the first Mormon temple west of the Mississippi, battled the Comanches, was entangled in the horrors of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and pioneered the Pine Valley community in southern Utah. Hawley's western odyssey is timely, worthy, and deserves to belong in the canon of American history and biography. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Editore: Greg Kofford Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013
ISBN 10: 1589584945 ISBN 13: 9781589584945
Da: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Paperback. 313p. plus advertising. A new softcover book, INSCRIBED by editor Claudia Bushman on the title page.