first edition Hardcover
1955 · San Marino, CA
by Lee, John Doyle
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited and Annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks. 344, 480pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light brown cloth with red labels on backstrips. Pictorial map endpapers. Both volumes very good. Light rubbing to the extremities. Underlining on a handful of pages. No dust jackets. Frontispieces of John D. Lee and Mountain Meadows. Brooks' monumental two volume work on the diaries of John D. Lee, which derived from her earlier work on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and led to her later full blown biography on Lee. (Inventory #: 47872)