Original Porter(s) for Sale Redux
UPDATE: Michael Brimbau points out that there are TWO original Porter’s (not one) on abebook.com. Both equally priced at $950.
Here is the second one first:
The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Porter, Edwin H.
Bookseller: Berry Hill Book Shop
(Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.)
US$ 950.00Description: 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
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 DetailsPublisher: Fall River, MA: Geo. R. H. Buffinton, 1893
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st EditionDescription: 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
