{"id":1210,"date":"2008-02-29T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2008\/02\/29\/original-porter-for-sale-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:01:58","slug":"original-porter-for-sale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/original-porter-for-sale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Porter(s) for Sale Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Here is the second one first:<\/p>\n

The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Porter, Edwin H.\t <\/p>\n

Bookseller: Berry Hill Book Shop
\n(Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.)
\nUS$ 950.00 <\/p>\n

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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LINK.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fall River Tragedy. A history of the Borden murders. PORTER, EDWIN H.
\nBookseller: John Waite Rare Books, ABAA
\n(Ascutney, VT, U.S.A.)
\nBook Price: US$ 950.00
\nBibliographic Details<\/p>\n

Publisher: Fall River, MA: Geo. R. H. Buffinton, 1893
\nPublication Date: 1893
\nBinding: Hardcover
\nEdition: 1st Edition<\/p>\n

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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

abebooks.com link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-and-media-reviews","category-lizzie-4-sale","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}