Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir

Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 946pp. Octavo [23.5cm] Black paper over boards with the title stamped in gold on the front cover and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. With very minor scuffing to the foot of the text block. The jacket is barely perceptibly sunned at the spine. Although much of her original voice was lost through editing in the more formal, first published edition of her memoir—14 percent of the overall content having been discarded—Lucy's original manuscript survives and is presented here for the first time in its entirety. For comparison's sake, it is arranged in parallel columns with the first (1853) edition. Significant variants from later printings are indicated in the editor's footnotes, with prefatory chapters that provide historical background and textual genealogy. (Inventory #: 67782)