[Rarebooks] FS: Immigrant Fever Panic & City Almanac

[Bob Petrilla]

[Wilson, David]. LIFE IN WHITEHALL DURING THE SHIP FEVER TIMES. Whitehall,
NY: Ingles & Tefft, 1900. First edition thus. First published in 1850 and
here greatly expanded. pp: (vi) introduction, (76) text, (26) pictorial ads
for local Whitehall businesses; 44 plates from photographs. Red cloth,
stamped in blind and gilt; faded area on cover. 9" x 6" Very Good.
By volume, this book is half historical fiction and half business directory
& city almanac. The narrative is set in Whitehall, New York, in 1847, and
based on actual events there during an epidemic of deadly fever blamed on
recent immigrants who had arrived by ship. This is the first book by the
author who went on to write "Twelve Years A Slave." [Wright, American
Fiction, III-6011] $90.00

Trade discount 20%, postpaid in US



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