Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES S Loves Rare Books Books' Salt Laker Lakei Sells First Editions Collects Collects' Autographed V Volumes olum s For 33 years Richard B. B Shep Shepard rd has las been selling books and collecting collect collect- I Ing ng books I Selling Sellin first editions and rare bool books to collectors all o over er the country is his business collecting autographed volumes volum S is his hobby In his lifelong career In the fIeldor field of or books Mr Shepard h has s sold thousands thousands thou thou- sanc sands of valuable able volumes and arid Important important im Im- Im d documents cuO but the tle sale he remembers best is that of a l copy of the he Proclamation of oC Emancipation to toa toa toa a Mr B Burton 1 of Milwaukee for Mr Jr Shepard believes the document ent would be worth at least today The original Proclamation of Emancipation Eman Ernan- issued by Lincoln on January January Janu Janu- ary 1 1 1863 was destroyed in Chicago In n the great fire lire Mr Shepard says The story of or the copy that he sold I is that an friend author of Lincoln's called at the White House Howe and Lincoln Lin Lin- coIn coln made a second copy of or the proclamation for or him Years afterward afterward after after- ward the heirs of oC the author sold the document to a London book seller r. r It t was fr from m this book seller that Mr Shepard obtained it and sold and eold it to Mr Burton Mr Shepards Shepard's specialty Is books on the he history of oC the west vest One of his prizes is a copy of oC Memoirs of My Life Ale by John C. C Fremont which I. I is ii autographed by both Fremont and andus his us wile wife In the book Fremont tells of at his early explorations in Utah Besides the books in his store stor Mr Shepard has several hundred copies of autographed books at his home He got gol into the business quite guito by accident He was practicing law in S Richard B. B Shepard Salt Lake City when he opened a book store for tor his son His son didn't care for the business so Mr Shepard decided to give up his Jaw aw practice and run the store himself He has been at it ever since |