The Mystery of "A Public Man": A Historical Detective Story.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. 256pp. Very good/very good. Jacket edgeworn, with several small edge chips. Item #51
First edition of this exposé of the author of the mysterious "Diary of a Public Man." Front jacket panel screams, "Lincoln Hoax Exposed! Authorship of Famous Diary Established in a Remarkable Story of Historical Detection." Front flyleaf bears archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in blue fineline by historian and biographer John M. Taylor, and laid in is a copy of his May 23, 1893 "Antiquarian Bookman" article, "The 'Public Man' and His Famous Diary," which discusses this book.
Price: $45.00
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