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ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
SLATER, NELSON, compiler. Fruits of Mormonism; or, a Fair and Candid Statement of Facts Illustrative of Mormon Principals, Mormon Policy, and Mormon Character, by More Than Forty Eye-Witnesses. Coloma, CA: Harmon & Springer, 1851.
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ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
SLATER, NELSON, compiler. Fruits of Mormonism; or, a Fair and Candid Statement of Facts Illustrative of Mormon Principals, Mormon Policy, and Mormon Character, by More Than Forty Eye-Witnesses. Coloma, CA: Harmon & Springer, 1851.
8vo (176 x 124 mm). Original red pebbled cloth covered boards. Custom Morocco clamshell case with cloth chemise. Leaves toned as usual, gutter margin of title with offset, light edgewear to cloth mainly at corners and head and tail of spine.
Provenance: Nelson Slater (bookplate and signature pasted to front paste-down); J.W. Shanklin, former Surveyor General of California (penciled ownership signature to title-page).
FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK ENTERED FOR COPYRIGHT IN CALIFORNIA. Scarce: only a handful copies appear in Americana Exchange and ABPC since 1985. Slater, a seminary teacher from New York traveling West to California with his family, "was one of a number of immigrants who were forced to spend the winter of 1850 in Salt Lake City. When his party reached Carson Valley in the spring, a meeting was held and 200 immigrants signed a set of resolutions. Later, a number of them drew up a memorial to Congress. Both are included in the above work that sets forth bitter complaints against the Mormons and charges them with treason, murder, larceny, and other crimes. The angry immigrants urged the Congress to abolish the territorial government in Utah and the establish a military rule" (Wagner-Camp). The book also bears the distinction of being the first entered for copyright in the state of California; it is also the only book to be published in Coloma, the tiny town which grew up around Sutter's Mill, the birthplace of the California gold rush. Cowan II p 591; Flake A Mormon Bibliography 7754; Graff 3814; Greenwood 301; Howes S542 "c"; Kurutz 585; Streeter sale 2686; Wagner-Camp 205.
8vo (176 x 124 mm). Original red pebbled cloth covered boards. Custom Morocco clamshell case with cloth chemise. Leaves toned as usual, gutter margin of title with offset, light edgewear to cloth mainly at corners and head and tail of spine.
Provenance: Nelson Slater (bookplate and signature pasted to front paste-down); J.W. Shanklin, former Surveyor General of California (penciled ownership signature to title-page).
FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK ENTERED FOR COPYRIGHT IN CALIFORNIA. Scarce: only a handful copies appear in Americana Exchange and ABPC since 1985. Slater, a seminary teacher from New York traveling West to California with his family, "was one of a number of immigrants who were forced to spend the winter of 1850 in Salt Lake City. When his party reached Carson Valley in the spring, a meeting was held and 200 immigrants signed a set of resolutions. Later, a number of them drew up a memorial to Congress. Both are included in the above work that sets forth bitter complaints against the Mormons and charges them with treason, murder, larceny, and other crimes. The angry immigrants urged the Congress to abolish the territorial government in Utah and the establish a military rule" (Wagner-Camp). The book also bears the distinction of being the first entered for copyright in the state of California; it is also the only book to be published in Coloma, the tiny town which grew up around Sutter's Mill, the birthplace of the California gold rush. Cowan II p 591; Flake A Mormon Bibliography 7754; Graff 3814; Greenwood 301; Howes S542 "c"; Kurutz 585; Streeter sale 2686; Wagner-Camp 205.
Footnotes
From the Conclusion:
"The emigrants are indignant at the treatment they received from the mormons the past winter and spring, and feel in duty bound to protest against such conduct towards United States citizens while passing through Utah territory. That their situation should be made uncomfortable, and almost intolerable, by abridging their rights of speech, by examining and destroying their letters deposited in the U.S. mail ... unlawfully taxing their property, threatening their lives, &c., &c., whilst the emigrants were peaceable, quiet, and law-abiding, was wanton and most iniquitous on the part of the mormons. It was a violation alike of the laws of hospitality and humanity."