first edition
1996 · Salt Lake City
by Edited Dan Vogel
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First Edition. 708pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 maroon cloth over yellow boards. Very good/Very good. Short closed tear to head of jacket's front panel. As historians continue to sort through the beginnings of Mormonism, Dan Vogel’s comprehensive inventory of all relevant primary documents is an unparalleled achievement. In this first volume, in the multi-volume series, Joseph Smith’s family—Emma, Katharine, Lucy, Joseph Sr., William, and others—recount how they became convinced of his high calling, feeling “the spirit of God like a burning fire shut up in [their] bones.” These narratives are carefully presented in their (truncated)