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[MORMONS]. Pair of Nineteenth-Century First Editions by Mormon Women, including:

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[MORMONS]. Pair of Nineteenth-Century First Editions by Mormon Women, including: SNOW, Eliza R. Poems, Religious, Historical, and Political. Liverpool: F. D. Richards, 1856. 8vo. [271] pp. Volume I only. Publisher's full purple cloth, boards decoratively stamped in blind, spine stamped in gilt, yellow endleaves. Cloth quite worn, soiled, spine sunned and worn, hinges and a few gutters cracking, front endleaves worn with sticker (or library pocket) residue and ownership signatures, title-page a bit loose, text a bit toned, soiled. Fair. FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME I OF THIS TWO VOLUME SET. Volume II was published in Salt Lake City in 1877. 

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[And:] STENHOUSE, Mrs. T. B. H. "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1874. 8vo. Illustrated. 623 pp. Publisher's full green cloth over beveled boards, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Some rubbing, minor wear to binding, front hinge repaired, text toned, with occasional thumbsoiling or foxing. Near fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CRITICISM OF MORMON POLYGAMY. 

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This lot is an interesting dichotomy of women's views of Mormonism. Snow was known as "Zion's Poetess," and a fierce defender of Mormonism. Stenhouse, by contrast, was the wife of a Mormon elder and missionary in Europe. Although she was faithful to Mormonism, she was against the growing practice of polygamy as it grew in the United States. 

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