This article was originally published on Deseret News.
A first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon sold for $240,000 Thursday at an auction hosted by Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago.
Reid Moon — owner and collector of books, documents and artifacts at Moon’s Rare Books in Utah — told the Deseret News the $240,000 sale price is a record, as a first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon “has never sold for more than $200,000 at auction.”
The previous high was set in 2007, when a copy with provenance sold for $180,000.
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