Author: WEICHMANN, Louis J.
Title: A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Hardcover. Edited by Floyd E. Risvold. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxxii, 492pp, xvi. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and usual light soiling and rubbing. First edition of this controversial, long-unpublished memoir by Mary Surratt's boarder -- with early Art Deco bookplate of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, on the front flyleaf. As front jacket panel notes, "Published now for the first time, almost seventy-five years after the author's death, the extraordinary eyewitness account by the young friend of John Surratt.." Tight and attractive. .

Keywords: ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln


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