first edition
1909 · Salt Lake City
by Kimball, Solomon Farnham
Salt Lake City: Magazine Printing Company, 1909. First Edition. 157pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Dark green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Neat contemporary inscription on the front pastedown. Rare first edition of this autobiographical collection of twelve stories of pioneer life in Utah by Heber C. Kimball's son, Solomon F. Kimball (1847-1920). Most of these appeared previously in the pages of the Improvement Era. "These articles are not only of a thrilling nature, but are so filled with the testimonies of Mormonism, that one of them has already appeared in several different languages." - Introduction. Flake/Draper 4623 Howes K139. (Inventory #: 9724)