[Rarebooks] fs: John Wilkes Booth/Lincoln Assassination

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9430 )  Forrester, Izola. THIS ONE MAD ACT: THE UNKNOWN STORY OF JOHN 
WILKES BOOTH AND HIS FAMILY - BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER.
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First printing, Original cloth, Octavo, 
xii, 500 pages, black and white photographic plates. Near fine in an edge 
worn dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Forrester vividly shares her family memories, traditions, and relics 
in this account of Booth's escape and survival after the Lincoln 
assassination. She argues that Booth was a tool of the Knights of the Golden 
Circle in the killing of Lincoln, that this secret group then helped him to 
escape, and that he lived the life of an exile until 1879. Booth is said to 
have fathered the author's mother, Ogarita Rosalie Wilkes, by his wife Izola 
Martha Mills (D'Arcy). Includes many old family photographs that do indeed 
bear strong resemblances to Booth. Forrester's book is the best in the 
"Booth survived" genre in terms of writing and research. MONAGHAN #3562. 
Bound in red cloth over boards with silver foil stamped pine and upper 
board, black topstain, family tree printed on endpapers. Shallow bump to 
lower fore corner of upper board, minor wrinkles to cloth at heel of spine. 
Contemporaneous owner name penned at top edge of front free endpaper, with 
the same owner's embossed circular seal on front free endpaper and half 
title. Dust jacket has chips, rubs, and closed tears to edges. Head of 
jacket spine is chipped to a depth of about 1 cm, not affecting any text. 
Jacket price remains intact. A pleasing copy of an essential Lincoln 
assassination item, scarce in the original dust jacket.    $250.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9430.jpg

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