Halstead, Murat; The Illustrious Life of William McKinley our Martyred President (Salesman's Sample)
BUFFALO, NY, WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1901 , HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: GOOD
Illustrated cloth with oval picture of William McKinley paste down. Cover book, shelf, edge wear and rubs, some fraying to edges, corner bends/bumps. Front/back hinge crack. Cashier's note from the Columbia National Bank of Buffalo, New York pasted on front paste down page. World Publishing Company letter pasted on back paste down page. Halstead's full letter pasted on front free end paper. Browning pages. Book contains first 56 pages then various other pages to book. Book also contains a letter signed by Halstead on paper from the Auditorium Hotel. Annex. An excerpt: I have had nothing to do with it since 1896, and want this clearly understood. It is a back number and I trust will be looked upon as such. From the Publishers: This prospectus is necessarily incomplete owing to the short time allowed us in its preparation. But a few of the chapter headings and only about half of its illustrations are shown. The complege book will tell the entire story of the assassination, the heroic struggle for life, the world wide grief, the popular indignation at the assassin, the last sad hours, the fortitude of the devoted invalid wife, the dying hours where in bade farewell and said, Good-bye all, good-bye. It is God's way; His will be done; the lying in state at Washington; the funeral train, the burial train and every item of interest connected with his visit to the exposition. A full account of anarchism, its principles, its prominent advocates, its methods and its victims will be given, together with the trial and punishment of the assassin. We guarantee that this book will be complete in every detail and more than please your subscribers when delivered. Our author, Murat Halstead, is without doubt better fitted to write this Official Memorial Volume of our late beloved President than any other man in the country. His name alone is sufficient guarantee that the book will be all that we claim for it and assure for it the largest sale ever known on a book of this nature. An account of the assassination of President Lincoln and President Garfield will be added comparing them with that of President McKinley. In illustration we have left nothing undone. Every picture that could add interest to his whole life or to the assassination, death and funeral ceremonies will be found in the complete book. Every one made expressly for this book from original photographs.
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