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Mormon Subjects: Burton, Richard F. The City of The Saints. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862. First American edition. 8vo, orig. brown cloth; rebacked, corners worn. With 3 maps on 1 fold. sheet, plan, 8 full-page wood-engravings, illus. in text. New back endpapers, front endpapers discolored by newspaper clippings. A few signatures sprung, other internal wear. Howes B-1033; Wagner-Camp 370:2 * [Buchanan, Robert William.] Saint Abe and His Seven Wives: A Tale of Salt Lake City. Toronto: Adam Stevenson, 1872. 12mo, orig. gilt-lettered blue cloth; slightly scuffed, some edge wear, spine ends frayed. Light to moderate foxing. A work in verse. Flake 955. * Mignonette, pseud. [Moore, Emily H.] Little Gentile: A Desert Romance of Captive and Exile in the "New Jerusalem." Chicago, 1879. 1st ed. 12mo, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated blue cloth; scuffed, corners bumped, other edge wear, slightly dusty. Modern paper spine label. Internally clean. A work in verse. Flake 5458. * Paddock, Mrs. In The Toils; or Martyrs of The Latter Days. Chicago: Dixon & Shepard, 1879. 1st ed. 12mo, orig. gilt-lettered black-stamped pictorial brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; occasionally scuffed, some edge wear. Slightly toned. Ex-library - ink control number on copyright page. Prose fiction. Wright 4062. * [Smith, Joseph.] [The Book of Mormon in The Deseret Alphabet, Part I.] New York: for The Deseret University by Russell Bros., 1869. 8vo, orig. leather backed printed bds.; spine rubbed, some edges wear, minor occasional discoloration & dust soiling to bds. Internally clean. 4 leaves, 116 pp. Includes key to the alphabet facing title-page. The first section of the Book of Mormon printed from the same type setting, and in the same year as the complete Book of Mormon in this type. This phonetic alphabet was developed at Deseret University in 1853, but not used to print books until 1868. Sabin 83020 (note - citing a copy of this separate part issue held by the New York Public Library). Flake 608.