altersteve Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Is there any place I can purchase it? I'd rather not buy it online. I've checked at my local Deseret Book, but it wasn't there. I'll ask an employee next time I'm there, but if anyone can help out that would be appreciated.Thanks!
Duncan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 an original or the replica version? if it was an original it may set you back a few bucks...
altersteve Posted December 5, 2011 Author Posted December 5, 2011 an original or the replica version? if it was an original it may set you back a few bucks...Just a replica. Somehow I was under the impression that "replicas" of the 1830 edition were sold somewhere, but I could be mistaken.
Duncan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 http://deseretbook.com/Book-Mormon-Replica-1830-Edition-Herald-House/i/2609476there you go!
Freedom Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Understand that there is no 'origional' version. Virtually every copy was different from the next because they make corrections to the type setting as they went along. They could not afford to reprint when they found an error. At least that it how I understand it. So the version you can by is based on one of the original copies.
cdowis Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) You might also find this interestinghttp://deseretbook.c...ousen/i/5036306Can anyone tell us about Royal Skousen's edition? Edited December 5, 2011 by cdowis
Emerson Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 You might also find this interestinghttp://deseretbook.c...ousen/i/5036306Can anyone tell us about Royal Skousen's edition?A review of the book--by LOaP--can be found here: http://www.lifeongoldplates.com/2009/09/review-royal-skousens-book-of-mormon.htmlBasically, Skousen examines the original manuscript, the printer's manuscript, and the 1830 printed edition, and deciphers, as best he can, what the "original" text that Joseph Smith dictated. He explains his process very persuasively in the introduction. It's a great book.
Calm Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I assume you just don't want to read it online as there are a few sites that have it available.
altersteve Posted December 5, 2011 Author Posted December 5, 2011 I assume you just don't want to read it online as there are a few sites that have it available.Yes, I would like to actually own a copy.Thank you, Duncan and cdowis, for the links. 1
David T Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Until you get your own hardcopy, the Joseph Smith Papers online site has a full reproduction here. - Also there are full photographic copies of the 1837, 1840, and 1841 editions.
Duncan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Just as an aside how much is an original Book of Mormon worth? I realize condition is everything but
cinepro Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Just as an aside how much is an original Book of Mormon worth? I realize condition is everything butFrom 2007:It took about three minutes Wednesday for a New York auction house to sell an 1830 Book of Mormon for $89,000. With the auction house commission, the price comes to nearly $98,000.Or you could buy just a page:Retired bookstore owner Helen Schlie can see a higher purpose in selling her 1830 first-edition Book of Mormon one page at a time.Schlie said she believes it will be more of a “missionary tool” since the framed pages — priced at $2,500 to $4,500 apiece — can be handed down from generation to generation.While I can understand the idea of collecting meaningful things from the past, I wonder it at some point it becomes a form of idolatry when it's a religious object.
zerinus Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) Is there any place I can purchase it? I'd rather not buy it online. I've checked at my local Deseret Book, but it wasn't there. I'll ask an employee next time I'm there, but if anyone can help out that would be appreciated. Thanks!There are several. Here is a cheap Kindle edition. Here is a printed version, probably the most reliable, by Royal Skousen. Here is another; unfortunately a preview is not available. Here is another (paperback) edition. And here is a very interesting parallel column version, again no preview available. I know that there used to be a photographic reprint available as well; but I haven't found one online so far.Edit: Here is the photographic reprint, courtesy of Duncan! Edited December 5, 2011 by zerinus 1
zerinus Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Just as an aside how much is an original Book of Mormon worth? I realize condition is everything butThe last I heard a copy fetched $105,000 in an auction. Source.
Duncan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I watch Pawn Stars and Storage Wars religiously and have often wondered what a Book of Mormon from 1830 or a similar item would fetch
Duncan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 From 2007:Or you could buy just a page:While I can understand the idea of collecting meaningful things from the past, I wonder it at some point it becomes a form of idolatry when it's a religious object.I agree! hasten the day I can afford to burn money like that on a book!
Freedom Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I picked up one printed in the early 1900's from an estate sale. I wonder if it is worth anything.
Duncan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I picked up one printed in the early 1900's from an estate sale. I wonder if it is worth anything.take it to Chumlee, he'll get you a good deal! A guy in my ward has his Grandpa's mission call, framed, from the 1880's signed by John Taylor, that would fetch a penny or two!
cinepro Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) There are several. Here is a cheap Kindle edition. Here is a printed version, probably the most reliable, by Royal Skousen. Here is another; unfortunately a preview is not available. Here is another (paperback) edition. And here is a very interesting parallel column version, again no preview available. I know that there used to be a photographic reprint available as well; but I haven't found one online so far.Edit: Here is the photographic reprint, courtesy of Duncan!And the online photographic version:http://www.inephi.com/1.htmYou want to talk about a sick collection of early LDS stuff, just check out what this guy has bought and sold over the years! Edited December 6, 2011 by cinepro
Whiskeypete Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 I have a late 1800's LDS hymnal that was found in the attic of my grandmother's aunt. The strange thing is that no one in her family were members of the Church so we don't know how it got there. It is quite worn, and the last time I checked, similar editions were only selling for 20 bucks or so online.It is words only, no music. My favorite part is in Praise to the Man: Long shall the blood which was shed by assassinsStain Illinois while the Earth lauds his fame I guess they had to edit that part in later versions...
Duncan Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 And the online photographic version:http://www.inephi.com/1.htmYou want to talk about a sick collection of early LDS stuff, just check out what this guy has bought and sold over the years! seetus lupeetus that's crazy!!!! I bet the Church has been trying to get most of that stuff for quite sometime
David T Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) And the online photographic version:http://www.inephi.com/1.htmThe online, zoomable photographic version without watermarks @ The Joseph Smith Papers. Edited December 6, 2011 by nackhadlow
KevinG Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 You want to talk about a sick collection of early LDS stuff, just check out what this guy has bought and sold over the years! I was afraid to click this thinking you had a link to information on Hoffman. ArtifactsFragments from the Egyptian cloth used on the Joseph Smith mummies of the Book of Abraham.Quick send Kevin and Will over there to translate them correctly!
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