Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LEONARD, ELLEN. Three Days Reign of Terror, or The July Riots in 1863. 24 pages. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers; outer leaves toned; stain through the entire piece at the top inner corner; stitching loose. New York: Off-print from Harper's Magazine for January of 1867

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A first-hand account of Ellen Leonard and her mother's survival of the violent draft riots of July, 1863. The two had just arrived in the city for a vacation when the streets erupted into chaos. While present in a number of libraries, no copy at auction in the last 20 years; not in Blockson Collection.