Tschanz Rare Books List 67 Usual terms. Items Subject to prior sale. Call, text: 801-641-2874 Or email: [email protected] to confirm availability. Domestic shipping: $10 International and overnight shipping billed at cost. Lorenzo Snow’s Howdy to the 20th Century 1- Snow, Lorenzo. Greeting to the World by President Lorenzo Snow. Delivered at The Centennial Services, Latter-day Saints' Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, January 1, 1901. [Salt Lake City]: [1901]. [4]pp. Single sheet [27 cm x 37 cm] folded in half. The fore edge is bumped and chipped, otherwise very good. This brief work contains President Snow's New Year's greeting and his hopes for the 20th century. "Let these sentiments, as the voice of the 'Mormons' in the mountains of Utah, go forth to the whole world, and let all people know that our wish and our mission are for the blessing and salvation of the entire human race. May the twentieth century prove the happiest as it will be the grandest of all the ages of time, and may God be glorified in the victory that is coming over sin and sorrow and misery and death." Flake/Draper 8205. $100 Idaho Falls Temple 2- [Mormon] [LDS]. Idaho Falls Temple. [Idaho Falls]: (c.1950). Black and white photograph [25 cm x 20 cm] Pin hole near head, otherwise near fine with strong contrasts. Nice view of the Idaho Falls Temple reflecting off the Snake River. The Idaho Falls Temple was the eighth built by the L.D.S. Church and is located on seven acres on the east bank of the Snake River. It was designed by John Fetzer and dedicated by George Albert Smith in 1945. When the Temple was announced in 1937, many of the locals saw it as the fulfillment of a prophecy that Wilford Woodruff made in the area in 1884: "Be not discouraged; be not disheartened, because God's blessing is upon this land. Yes, as I look into the future of this great valley, I can see temples - I can see beautiful temples erected to the name of the Living God where holy labors may be carried on in his name through generations to come." $35 C.R. Savage View Book 3- Savage, Charles Roscoe. A Reflex of Salt Lake City. [Salt Lake City]: C.R. Savage, Art Bazar, (c.1890). [16 cm] Red cloth with decorative gilt and black stamping to the front board. Accordion style. A single sheet [15 cm x 205 cm] that folds into eighteen panels. Very good. View book of Salt Lake City that contains a nice bird's-eye of the Salt Lake Valley over three panels. Images of the Tabernacle, the Temple, buildings of Salt Lake, Beck's Hot Springs, Native Americans and the first four Presidents of the L.D.S. Church. Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was an accomplished and prolific photographer who lived successfully within his Salt Lake City community and traveled widely throughout the West taking photographs and befriending other important photographers of his day such as Carleton Watkins, Edward Wilson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Alfred Hart and A.J. Russell. Savage took several of the West's most famous images at the celebration of the joining of the transcontinental railroads at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. Savage also took the first photographs of what became Zion National Park. Flake/Draper 7537. $150 Rare Set of Rulon Jeffs Sermons 4- Jeffs, Rulon. Sermons of Rulon Jeffs. Hildale, UT: Twin City Courier Press, 2009. Second printings. Eight volume set. 545, 542, 540, 542, 546, 544, 546, 390pp. Octavos [23 cm] Publisher's black buckram with the titles gilt on the front board and backstrip and all edges gilt. All volumes near fine. The name 'Susie' is neatly gilt stamped at the foot of the front boards. Color portrait frontispiece of Jeffs in all volumes. This set includes all of the recorded sermons of Rulon Jeffs from March, 1945 to September,1996. The latter 2/3 of volume 8 contains the sermons of John Y. Barlow from March, 1935 to July, 1949. Rulon T. Jeffs (1909-2002) was the son of early Fundamentalist David W. Jeffs (1873-1953), who began following John Y. Barlow and Joseph Musser in 1938. When Rulon joined with the Fundamentalists, Musser told him that he was admitted on the strength of his LDS baptism, and no additional baptism was required. He married his first wife Zola Brown who was the daughter of future Apostle, Hugh B. Brown in 1939, and married a plural wife in 1941 (Zola divorced him soon after). In the following six decades he would marry 65 more, and father dozens of children. He was the Prophet of the FLDS Church from 1986 until his death. Rare set that was never intended for the general public and never publicly distributed. This is only the third time I've handled this set in twenty years (and I am always looking). I can locate six institutional holdings (LDSCHL, USU, UU, Yale, Weber, Dixie). $1,250 Rare Set of Sermons from ‘Uncle Roy’ 5- Johnson, Leroy Sunderland. L.S. Johnson Sermons. Hildale, UT: Twin City Courier Press, January, 1994. Sixth Edition. Eight volume set. 390, 391-792, 793-1220, 1221-1737, 442, 420, 497, 505pp. Quartos [28 cm] Publisher's black buckram with the titles gilt on the front board and backstrip. All volumes better than very good. The name 'Glade Jessop Jr.' is blacked out with a marker on the front pastedowns. Color portrait frontispiece of Johnson in all volumes. This set includes all of the recorded sermons of Leroy S. Johnson from December, 1943 to September,1996. The front of volume 1 contains a handful of sermons from John Y. Barlow. Leroy S. Johnson (1888-1986) spent much of his childhood in Big Horn County, Wyoming, among family and friends, some of whom questioned the validity of the First Manifesto (1890). He became acquainted with fundamentalist ideas in 1928 after his brother Price introduced him to John Woolley in Centerville, Utah. Soon thereafter, after a number of unsuccessful proposals, he quietly entered plural marriage. In the following five decades he would marry at least 15 more, and father dozens of children. He was the Prophet of the FLDS Church from 1954 until his death. Rare set that was never intended for the general public and never publicly distributed. This is only the second time I've handled this set in twenty years (and I am always looking). I can locate one institutional holding for a complete set (UU) and one holding for a partial set (LDSCHL). Rare. $1,250 Vest Pocket Third Nephi 6- Smith, Joseph. The Book of Third Nephi from the Book of Mormon. [Salt Lake City]: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1946. 179pp. 32mo [11 cm] Full dark limp sheep with the title gilt stamped on the front panel. Floral endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Small chip to crown with faint crease to panels and name in ink on the front pastedown. A handful of passages highlighted with a pale orange pencil. Rare vest pocket printing of the Book of Third Nephi from The Book of Mormon. “The teachings of this book should be familiar to every member of the Church. It is with hope that many thousands will read and enjoy the glorious truths taught herein and thus be led to become familiar with all the books of that sacred record, The Book of Mormon, that this special edition of the Book of Third Nephi is published by the Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." $75 Rare in Jacket 7- Widtsoe, Leah. How to be Well: A Health Handbook and Cook-book Based on The New Knowledge of Nutrition. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1943. First Edition. 576pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green publisher's buckram with stamped titles on the front board. Near fine in a jacket that has a few small chips at the extremities and is neatly split at the folds. Uncommon work by Leah Widtsoe (1874-1965) who was a prominent educator and served many callings for the L.D.S. Church. She and her husband, John Widtsoe, were two of the main proponents of the Word of Wisdom. Uncommon work that is rare in a jacket. $85 Disaster in Eastern Utah 8- Dilley, J.W. History of the Scofield Mine Disaster: A Concise Account of the Incidents and Scenes that Took Place at Scofield, Utah, May 1, 1900. When Mine Number Four Exploded, Killing 200 Men. Profusely Illustrated by 70 Choice Engravings. Provo, UT: The Skelton Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition. 298pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth with the title and a three-color illustration of Scofield (pre-disaster) on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Age toning to the backstrip. Front flyleaf attached to front free endsheet near the gutter. An unusually nice copy of this uncommon work that was released the same year as the mine disaster in Utah's coal country, that at the time, was the worst in terms of casualties, taking the lives of over 200 miners, the vast majority whom were recent immigrants. "Don't you see that funeral train? Don't you see that funeral train? Rolling down that lonesome valley - It's the longest one I've seen - May the first was bright and clear - Nineteen hundred was the year - A great explosion rocked our town - While the men were underground." - Utah Phillips 'Scofield Mine Disaster.' $275 Strangite Scripture 9- [Strang, James Jesse].