Nez-Perces first book
Subtitle: designed for children and new beginners.
Publisher: Mission Press
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Clear Water [Or. Ter.]
Language: nai
Subjects: Nez Percé language -- Texts.
Genres: Texts.
Notes: First edition, May 1839, of which 400 copies were printed; the first book printed in the Nez Percés Indian language in an alphabet devised by the author. The 2d edition, August 1839 (500 copies) and later publications, were printed in the revised (Pickering) alphabet. cf. H.M. Ballou's "History of the Oregon Mission Press" in Oregon Hist. Soc. quarterly, v. 23, no. 1, March 1922.
LC copy imperfect: p. 5-6 only of the original edition; p. [1]-2, 7-8 in photostat facsimile from a copy in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society; a complete copy including p. 3-4 has not been found.