The Twenty-seventh Wife
by Wallace, Irving
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- first
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. 443pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over salmon boards. Very good/Near fine few small nicks and closed tears to the jacket. Nicer than usually seen copy of this fictionalized biography of one of Brigham Young's plural wives, by the best-selling author and screenwriter, Irving Wallace. This is one of his earliest works, and his second "nonfiction" work.
"The Twenty-seventh Wife is the vivid and fascinating story of one of the strangest and most scandalous events in America's history - Ann Eliza Young's divorce from her husband, Brigham Young, the Mormon Prophet who brought his people across the deserts to Salt Lake City and raised his church to great power and wealth. It was a scandal the rocked America in the last decades of the nineteenth century, and it led directly to the final abolition of polygamy in the United States." - blurb from jacket.
"The Twenty-seventh Wife is the vivid and fascinating story of one of the strangest and most scandalous events in America's history - Ann Eliza Young's divorce from her husband, Brigham Young, the Mormon Prophet who brought his people across the deserts to Salt Lake City and raised his church to great power and wealth. It was a scandal the rocked America in the last decades of the nineteenth century, and it led directly to the final abolition of polygamy in the United States." - blurb from jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 995
- Title
- The Twenty-seventh Wife
- Author
- Wallace, Irving
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Polygamy Brigham Young Mormon LDS
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