Vigilantes
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Two hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been specially bound and signed by the Author on colophon. 233/250. Octavo. 346pp., 16 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and frame on cover, gilt lettering ruling and publisher's device on spine; in original illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on spine, housed in matching illustrated cardboard slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece. Headpiece illustrations. Decorative title page with portrait drawing. The story of "evildoers" in the 1860s, led by Henry Plummer, and the Vigilance Committee which executed thirty-three of them. Illustrated with sixteen full page b/w photographs. Slipcase with some wear along edges, light scuffing at edges and front edges partially split at foredge. Dustjacket with very light wear along top edge at spine and back cover. Very good condition. Item #49426
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