The Soul's Fire

Los Angeles: Suttonhouse Limited, 1936. First Edition. 291pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Blue cloth with a red and gilt label on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Jacket bumped at extremities with a large chip missing from the front panel's upper left corner. This jacket is uncommon. Eight tipped-in illustrations. Uncommon novel from the author of 'Thunder Cave' that offers a history of Mormonism from its founding to the arrival of Brigham Young and his followers into the Great Basin.

"What the first colonists of America are to the East, the [Mormon] pioneers of 1847, and those who followed them before the railroad bridged the plains, are to the West." - from the author's preface.