[Rarebooks] fs: John Wilkes Booth related (2)

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

And we might as well have a little information about the assassin...
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(No. 8980 )  Kimmel, Stanley. THE MAD BOOTHS OF MARYLAND.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, (1940). First printing, 
Full cloth, Octavo, 400 pages, Black & white plates. Very good in a worn, 
price clipped jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Landmark biography of one of America's most legendary stage families. 
Kimmel ambitiously delves into the family lore of Lincoln assassin John 
Wilkes Booth to separate fact from fiction. Bound in tan cloth over boards 
with dark brown spine and upper board lettering. Minor extremity rubs to 
cloth, light foxing to frontispiece and title page, otherwise clean and 
sound. No hinge cracks. Jacket shows edge chips, rubs, closed tears, with 
large chips to head and heel of spine. Several jacket edges have been taped. 
Despite its wear the jacket text is complete and it remains a compliment to 
the book....... $75.00
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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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Rock
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