Wife No. 19 or The Story of a Life In Bondage: Being a Complete Expose Of Mormonism and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy by Ann Eliza Young - 1875

1st edition. Good HC, no DJ. Ex-library. Brown cloth over boards; front cover and spine black and gilt stamped with titles and floral-filigree designs; rear cover blind stamped with central publisher's device and strap work frame; tissue-guarded frontispiece; pictorial drop-cap initials at each chapter head. Clean, square covers and spine; significant insect grazing of covers and spine, giving mottled appearance; some chipping of gilt and black stamping; lightly rubbed at spine ends and fore corners; small splits in cloth at cover joints; tightly bound; front free end paper partially stuck to front paste down; library book plate on front paste down, no other library markings in or out; moderate foxing on frontispiece and title page; limited ink marginalia on 11 pages between pp 49 - 67, otherwise very clean interior. 8vo, 605 pp; illustrated with many steel engravings. Cf, OCLC #8064193.