Life in Utah: Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism, Being an Expose of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter Day Saints de Beadle, J. H - 1870

Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1870. Leather. Poor with no dust jacket. Being an Expose of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints with a Full and Authentic History of Polygamy and the Mormon Sect from Its Origin to the Present Time. Front and rear hinges very tender, leather chipping at top and bottom of spine, covers rubbed--a reference copy. Map intact. Covers loose. 540 pages plus ads; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4

New.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

National Publishing Company, 1870. Fair. Beadle, J. H.. Life in Utah ; Or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism. Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1870. 1st edition. 540pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Fair; the covers are lightly spotted, and the spine is faded. The text block is cracked at the copyright page, and is beginning to come away from the backstrip. There is a contemporary notation on the front flyleaf.

National Publishing Company. Softcover, in Very Good condition, previous owners stamp inside, book number 135 of 1000, a little wear on the end pages, covers and spine look good, being an exposé of the secret rites and ceremonies of the Latter Day Saints with a full and authentic history of polygamy and the Mormon sect from its origin to the present time, . Very Good. Soft cover. 1986.

National Publishing Company. 540pp. Plus 4 pages of ads. Probable First Edition. Green stamped hard cover with gilt titles. Frontis, title page, and map missing. Book is bumped and cloth chipped at the corners, some cover rubbing, minor soiling to some pages, rear endpaper is soilied with a 1/2 inch tear at the head of the hinge. Binding is sound and the book is square. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall E4 . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1870.

Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, ( 1876 ). New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 540 pages, original green embossed cloth, slight tidal line at bottom edge. Lacks the folding map ( not cited in the list of illustrations ). [ Flake/Draper 344]. Beadle left Indiana and lived for years in the West, especially as Editor of the "Salt Lake Reporter". Both a lawyer and a journalist, Beadle's anti-Mormon columns and books were a vertiable bastinado of hyperbole, designed to quash any incipient admiration for Mormon industry, sobriety, and brotherly love - Leonard Arrington.": Illustrated with 37 woodcuts.

National Publishing Company , 1870. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Calf binding with elaborate embossed design, black spine label with gilt titles, frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map tipped-in at front. Leather worn through at two corners, front external hinge starting but holding, rubbed at edges, some scattered foxing in text, offsetting to endpapers, but still an attractive copy.

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia: National Publishng Company, 1870. Folding map. Former owner's ink stamps on front endpapers.. Later Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good.