The Deseret Second Reader
Salt Lake City: Regents of the Deseret University, 1868. Hardcover. 72pp. Brown cloth backed printed boards. Dampsatin to bottom of textblock at the spine, old tape repair to the rear endpaper, else an about very good example. Very good. Item #71631
Alfred L. Bush finds these readers to be “a curious and interesting aspect of Brigham Young’s empire-building—which went so far as to include an attempt at an alphabetic reformation” (qtd. in Streeter). Flake 2818; Streeter IV: 2309.
Price: $300.00