The Mystery of "A Public Man": A Historical Detective Story.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. 256pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with spine sunned and several edge chips. Item #41949
First edition of this exposé of the author of the mysterious "Diary of a Public Man," an anonymous "North American Review" contributor of 1879. Front jacket panel screams, "Lincoln Hoax Exposed! Authorship of Famous Diary Established in a Remarkable Story of Historical Detection."
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