first edition
1893 · Fall River (MA)
by PORTER, Edwin H.
Fall River (MA): Buffinton, 1893. First edn. 8vo, pp. [ii], 312. Illustrated, Pulpy paper browned as usual with the hinges front tender, title page browned and starting, name on end paper, genersally a very good copy. Howes P-486; McDade 117:"This is the basic book on the case and now hard to find." McDade:"The Borden case still ranks as one of the great American murder cases ... On August 14, 1892, Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby, were hacked to death in their home in Fall River, MA. Lizzie ... was tried and acquitted for the murder of her father and stepmother. It is difficult today to read the case and and conclude that Lizzie was innocent.
(Inventory #: 60241)