[Rarebooks] fs: Childhood home of John Wilkes Booth

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 3496 )  Mahoney, Ella V. SKETCHES OF TUDOR HALL AND THE BOOTH FAMILY.
Bel Air: Privately Printed, 1925. First printing, Full cloth, Duodecimo, 59 
pages, Black & White photographs. Near Fine.
      The author's husband purchased Tudor Hall in 1878 from Mary Ann 
Booth--wife of Junius Brutus Booth and matriarch of the famous acting 
family. Mrs. Mahoney's father and John Wilkes Booth were boyhood companions. 
There are brief sketches of Junius Brutus Booth and Edwin Booth, and 
interesting information about the house and its history. Much of the book 
concerns John Wilkes Booth and events surrounding the Lincoln assassination. 
Includes such chapters as "The Identification of John Wilkes Booth" (after 
he was killed in Virginia)," "The Enid Myth" (in which Booth escapes, 
committing suicide in 1903 in Oklahoma), and "The search for Booth at Tudor 
Hall after the Assassination of Lincoln." MONAGHAN #2796. Bound in dark 
green cloth over boards with upper board lettered in gilt. Mild rubs to 
extremities, some spotting to fore edge of textblock. Hinges sound, no prior 
ownership marks.    $150.00
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