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Signed book: The Ford Theatre Lincoln Assassination Playbills. Limited first edition, numbered 72/75. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1937. Red cloth-bound hardcover with gilt titling, 7.5 x 10, 16 pages. Signed on the foreword page in black ink by the editor, Walter C. Brenner, who also signs his initials on the colophon. The book contains its original supplement pamphlet with matching edition number, which begins: “To many no reminder is needed that this year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This little homemade pamphlet in passing records a few additional details relating to the Ford Theatre playbills of that day, but more especially wishes to state that ever since that event the true facts concerning the playbills were known to some and should have been known to others, and that these facts were all but published over forty years ago.” In fine condition. A scarce, highly regarded Lincoln-assassination reference work that attempted to separate genuine April 14, 1865 playbills from later reprints or spurious examples, laying out identifying characteristics and correcting misconceptions that had circulated for decades.
