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Hardcover. Condition: Good reading / reference copy. No jacket. First Edition. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884. Good reading / reference copy. This book has several condition problems: The tissue-guard is stuck to the frontispiece. Moisture stains on the cover. Wear to spine ends. Pages are a bit wavy and have light damp stains at the edges (in the margins only - text is NOT affected). However the text is perfectly legible. Not in collector's condition, but suitable for reading / reference. Frontispiece is a tipped-in photographic portrait. After about 28 autobiographical pages of Ballantine's early life in England, he begins a detailed account of his travels in America. There are chapters on the Streets of New York; Journalism and Fashion; Theater in America; Plays and Players; Charles Dickens' Performances; his meeting with General Grant; New York Society; Courts, Crimes and Punishments; American Prisons; Law and Lawyers; Boston; Philadelphia; The Clover Club; Buffalo, Niagara, and Chicago; Ogden, Utah; Salt Lake City and the Mormons; the widows of Brigham Young; a Murder Trial; his conversations with President Taylor; the return trip to Liverpool; his associations with Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, etc. Original purple cloth, gilt. Flake 264: "Utah and the Mormons, pp. 134-168." Not in Howes, Soliday, Decker, Eberstadt, or Graff. First Edition. Hardcover. Good reading / reference copy/No jacket. 8vo. xvi, 259pp. + 48 page publisher's catalogue.…