Our First Men A Calendar Of Wealth Fashion And Gentility Containing A List Of Those Persons Taxed In

by Boston

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

48pp. Pencil annotations. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers, soiled, minor wear. Sabin 6623. Item #370888 The description offered in catalogue 590 by the venerable Goodspeed's, who knew a thing or two about Boston Brahmin, simply cannot be improved: Vexatious to some but amusing to others, because of the biographical comments. A mayor of Boston is called “a 'desperate punster',” and a famous Boston historian is described as “'a showy boy at

• Binding: Wrappers

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