The Deseret News: Truth and Liberty, Vol. V., No 26 - Wednesday, September 5, 1855
Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory: Deseret News, 1855. Very Good. Item #47751
Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory: Deseret News, 1855. First Edition. Volume V, Number 26 (this issue only). Oversized tabloid (39x26cm); self wrappers; [201]-208pp. Light wrinkling and chipping along edges; a couple inoffensive stains; tide marks to margins; Very Good.
A relatively early appearance of this LDS publication dating from the paper's fifth year of existence and one year after the first type was cast in Utah and the LDS community began making its own paper from a beet grinder and other refitted sugar machinery. Contents include a report from Chauncey W. West on the mission he led to India, Ceylon, and Arabia. His report of their arrival at Galle, Sri Lanka notes a local newspaper report had been published declaring, "that we were polygamists, that they must beware us and not receive us, for if they did, they would be partakers of our evil deeds." Early issues uncommon in retail.
Further reading: Wendell J. Ashton, Voice in the West: Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1950; pp. 54-58.
Price: $350.00