[CPProt.net] Global book sellers are alerted to watch for stolen LDS tomes

[MSN CPPnet (Ton Cremers)]

Global book sellers are alerted to watch for stolen LDS tomes 
 November 13, 2005

Salt Lake Tribune  
 
A security list issued after rare editions of the Book of Mormon were
reported missing from a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Institute in Salt Lake City had, as of Friday, generated no responses. The
list was sent out Wednesday night to 500 Antiquarian Booksellers Association
of America (ABAA) book sellers across the country and 1,500 internationally,
describing the books and circumstances and telling the sellers to be on the
lookout. Ken Sanders, who owns Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City, is
a member of the ABAA's security committee and forwarded the list to the
committee chairman, who sent it out. An 1840 edition of the Book of Mormon
printed in Nauvoo, Ill., and an 1841 edition printed in Liverpool, England,
were in a safe that was stolen from the Salt Lake University Institute of
Religion sometime between Oct. 24 and Tuesday. They had not been recovered
as of Friday. University of Utah police have been investigating. The 1840
edition and the 1841 edition are worth about $35,000 and $25,000,
respectively, Sanders said. - Justin Hill