Mondo Lizzie Borden

UPDATE: Michael Brimbau points out that there are TWO original Porter’s (not one) on abebook.com. Both equally priced at $950.

Here is the second one first:

The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Porter, Edwin H.

Bookseller: Berry Hill Book Shop
(Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.)
US$ 950.00

Description: 1893, First Edition, Good Plus/no dj, octavo, 312pp., dark green cloth with gold lettering faded off cover & backstrip, both interior hinge papers cracking, small owner’s stamps on t.p. & top margins of c.25pp. of text, frayed at bottom of backstrip& bumped at corners, circular 1″ stain top margins pp 111-115, 1″ top corner clipped off p. 7-8, owner’s name & inscription on ffe, b&w ill’s throughout, extremely scarce original edition of the first history of the Borden case by the Fall River Globe police reporter, most copies allegedly bought up & destroyed by Lizzie. Bookseller Inventory # 30

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The Fall River Tragedy. A history of the Borden murders. PORTER, EDWIN H.
Bookseller: John Waite Rare Books, ABAA
(Ascutney, VT, U.S.A.)
Book Price: US$ 950.00
Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Fall River, MA: Geo. R. H. Buffinton, 1893
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

Description: 8vo., pp. [1 ff] + [3]-312; navy cloth, dulled; tips and spine ends lightly worn; joints cracked; old cellotape to gutter at front hinges; good only. First edition. Riveting account of perhaps the most famous murders in America during the 19th century — the Lizzie Borden case. Porter, a police reporter for the Fall River Globe, gives a full narrative of the crime and subsequent trial. Highly desirable and scarce in trade. Bookseller Inventory # 4356

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There was a snow storm last night that hit the northeast and Fall River got plenty of the white stuff. Around an inch they say, with more to fall. So here is a photograph of Maplecroft in the snow. It looks so serene, doesn’t it?

The print copy of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is now available. We bring you three choices for purchase: Full color, Black and white interior, or Download.

Copies of all 21 issues of this scholarly journal are available through our print on demand partner, LuLu.com at this LINK.

You can read all about the new Lizzie Borden image find and other exciting news, including a fascinating new piece by the eminent Borden scholar Leonard Rebello, author of the seminal Lizzie Borden: Past and Present.

My hometown paper ran a story on me today. It is all about the Lizzie image that Len Rebello and I found in Swansea. I thought I would share. . . . .

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Today brought another slew of press, from being mentioned on CNN Headline news all day, to radio, to major newspapers across the region. The story will also appear in my hometown paper on Sunday. I have had interviews with the Boston Globe, the Fall River Daily Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, and WCVB-TV in Boston.

Check back during the day as I will be adding content to this same entry as it arrives.

WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE CHANNEL 5 WCVB-TV NEWS STORY HERE!

Well, it has happened! After all these years, Lizzie Borden has finally made the news again. The article that was printed on the front page of the Fall River Herald News today went national and it hit the AP. Below are several TV stations that have put the story on their news site.

Also, the Boston Globe will be running a piece about the discovery of the new Lizzie image tomorrow, and WCVB-TV (Boston) will air a piece about it tonight on the news.

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The Fall River Herald News has published a story about the Lizzie Borden photo The Hatchet made recently.

Read all about it here!

The Hatchet found a new Lizzie Borden image! Read all about it in this press release!

The newest issue of The Hatchet is now online for your viewing pleasure. The Hatchet is in its fifth year of publication and this issue marks #21. As the magazine is now an official adult, there will be a party!

Subscriptions for the ONLINE journal are still only $20 for four issues! You can subscribe here.

In this issue: a fantastic piece on Emma’s 1913 interview by Borden scholar and author Leonard Rebello; a story detailing the finding of the Lizzie Borden photograph (PLUS OTHER SURPRISES FOUND) by Stefani Koorey, Ph.D. (that’s me); another great installment of “Lizzie Borden Girl Detective” by Richard Behrens; a personal tribute to the late Neilson Caplain by his son Ron; a story about Lizzie’s Grand Tour by Shelley Dziedzic; an interview with criminologist, Professor Thomas Mauriello; a sweet plea about Edwin Porter’s grave by Sherry Chapman; a list of all residents of Second Street in 1892 (a massive accomplishment) by Harry Widdows; biographical pieces by Kat Koorey; and our regulars—Mary Elizabeth Naugle, Sherry Chapman, Douglas Walters, Eugene Hosey, and Denise Noe bringing in their very best work!

We have made some changes to the journal, the most obvious of which is the name. Now we are known at The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History. We are broadening our niche and promise to bring you the same level of scholarship and entertainment you have been used to.

The print copy of The Hatchet will be available later in the week through LuLu.com. Check back here for details.

If you would like to order back copies of The Hatchet in print, please visit our print-on-demand partner LuLu.com here.

The Lizzie Borden Case February 21st
Christopher Daley, an educator/historian, presents a lecture that involves a one hour slide presentation in which photographs of all the people, places and events of the period are used to chronicle the famous double murder and the resulting trial.
The progaram is in the Meeting Room of the Library on Thursday February 21, 2008 at 7pm.
Please call 978-671-0949×4 to sign up.
Light refreshments will be served.

Billerica Public Library, Billerica, MA

This is a great idea! Nice photos on the rest of her site as well. CraftyQuahog on Flikr.

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