PROVIDENCE - A Cache Valley man is auctioning his family’s copy of first edition of the Book of Mormon .

Richard Hatch said the book was originally owned by his grandfather J. Eastman Hatch who acquired the 1830 edition from Sam Weller in Salt Lake City. Originally, there were 5,000 books printed and currently there an estimated 700 of the books in existence today.

“I think my grandfather paid $100 or $150 in 1953 when he bought it,” Hatch said. “First editions of the Book of Mormon now are selling for well over $100,000.”

Potter & Potter Auction House will handle the auction which will take place on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at 9 a.m. MST.

Hatch talked to his siblings about selling the historical documents and they gave him the okay. It has been held in a deposit box at Zion’s Ba

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