The Private Papers and Diary of Thomas Leiper Kane, a Friend of the Mormons

San Francisco: Gelber-Lilienthal, 1937 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed at The Grabhorn Press. Edited, with an Introduction by Oscar Osburn Winther. 79pp. Frontis portrait of Kane, one plate, facsimile letter. Title printed in red and black. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Corners bumped, slightest of darkening to edges, else a fine copy. One of the most sympathetic Gentile appraisals of Mormon conduct. Kane describes their trek to Utah in which he participated. Includes the facsimile letter from Brigham Young to Kane, lacking from some copies. Also includes a reproduction of a lithograph of Salt Lake City in 1853. [Grabhorn: 274]..