The Proselyte.

FIRST EDITION, one or two incredibly faint spots to early leaves, pp. 397, crown 8vo, original pale blue cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in pale green (outlined in black), a few faint spots to edges, map to front endpapers, dustjacket dustsoiled overall with some light surface abrasion to rear panel, very good. The author was born in England to American parents; though she spent her own adulthood in Britain, the present novel, set in the mid nineteenth-century, concerns a life in the opposite direction - its protagonist, Zillah Purdy, is an Englishwoman who marries a Mormon missionary, Joseph Hewett, and relocates with him to their 'New Zion' in Utah. It is considered a faithful and sympathetic portrait of the Mormon struggle. The first edition is scarce in the dustjacket.