Nez-Perces First Book was the first book printed in the Pacific Northwest, a primer written by Presbyterian missionary Henry Harmon Spalding in an alphabetical system of his own devising.  Published in May of 1839, four hundred copies of the eight-page book were printed a Spalding's mission at Clear Water (present-day Lapwai, Idaho).  No complete copies of the book are known to exist; portions survive at the Massachusetts Historical Society and Harvard's Houghton Library.

         Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Idaho Center for the Book, which published an incomplete facsimile edition in 1994.