Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Carp's Washington.

CARPENTER, Frank G.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1960]. Hardcover. Edited by Frances Carpenter. Introduction by Cleveland Amory. 8vo. Red cloth spine with silver lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 314pp, (2pp). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Item #43652

A tight and lovely first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "spirited account of certain somewhat scandalous goings-on in the city of Presidents Arthur and Cleveland, with unrestrained comment on the curiosities, characters & cranks of Capitol Hill." Special front flyleaf bookplate "From Ralph Geoffrey Newman to the Civil War Round Table of Chicago."

Price: $25.00