Young Woman's Journal Volume V (5)
Salt Lake City: Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of Zion, 1894. Volume Five. Leather bound. 600pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black leather with gilt stamped titles and blind stamped designs on the spine and covers. Decorative endsheets All twelve issues of volume five (October,1893 through September, 1894) bound in one volume. Fair only. The extremities are rubbed and scratched. There are losses from the leather at the ends of the spine. The backstrip is almost completely detached, and the front board is barely hanging on. There are multiple small raised areas and thin long creases in the leather of the rear board. The underlying boards are exposed at the corners. Small stain on the top edge of the text block. The text block is cracked several times, and it is separating from the covers.
*The first issue in this volume is missing one or possibly more pages, and begins at p. 11. Item #33674
Almost six hundred pages of Mormon history, LDS Church teachings, literature and poetry, travel, LDS Temple workers, Joseph Smith History, testimonies of Church leaders, fashion, manners, women's rights, etc. Illustrated with photographs and artwork.. Forty volumes were published of this important LDS women's periodical between 1889-1929, when it was combined with The Improvement Era. Flake/Draper #10,114.
Price: $25.00