John Doyle Lee: Zealot - Pioneer Builder - Scapegoat

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1961. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Very Good. 404pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth with dark blue printed title on backstrip. Publisher's blue topstain. Covers moderately cocked; extremities marginally rubbed. Released a year prior to the red cloth trade edition. The correct first edition, issued in only a minuscule printing of 209 copies, none were offered for sale. They were given to descendants of John D. Lee as well as to friends of the publisher and author. This true first printing omits the last three paragraphs on page 376 regarding Lee's reinstatement to membership in the Mormon Church. Scarce edition of this important work. Americana Century 35. Six Guns 286. Mattes 305. (Inventory #: 68867)