First-edition Copy of Book of Mormon Sells for $45,000

A first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon sold for $45,000 to a private collector at the Printed & Manuscript Americana auction in New York on Tuesday.

One of 5,000 originally printed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830, the book was discovered in an estate auction as part of a box of books that sold for $220.

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