Fernando Wood of New York

by Samuel Augustus Pleasants

$25 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. First edition, 8vo, pp. 216; a fine, fresh copy in original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Biography of the mid-19th-century mayor of New York whose tenure was marked by the bloody police and gang riots of 1857. Item #27316

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