first edition Hardcover
1925 · New York
by Werner, M. R. (Morris Robert)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First edition in book form. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 478pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Bottom fore-edge corner of the front cover prominently bumped. Gilt rule at the foot of the spine partially rubbed away. Publisher's yellow topstain. ***In a Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket, with periodic small closed tears and chips in the edges. The deepest tear is closed, measuring 1 and 1/2" Flake: 9695. First published in Ladies Home Journal, December 1924 to June 1925. From the jacket- "The story of Brigham Young and the Mormons is an inherently dramatic (truncated)