Kenneth Mallory Bookseller, ABAA

The Deseret First Reader

[Mormons]. [Deseret Alphabet]

[NY]: Russell Bros. for The Regents of The Deseret University, 1868. Hardcover. 38pp. Brick cloth backed printed boards. Slightly darkened and rubbed, old tape repair to tears on rear endpaper, else a very good example. Very good. Item #71633

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 606; Streeter IV: 2309.

Price: $300.00