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.

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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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