Product code: 1885 CIVIL WAR ALLAN PINKERTON SPY OF THE REBELLION SECRET SERVICE FIRST GIFT outlet
From 1885, the rare first edition of The Spy of the Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton, Chief of the United States Secret Service, as published by M.A. Winter & Hatch, Hartford, Connecticut. Three inches thick, 688 pages. Bound in terra cotta colored cloth, gilt titles. Note the gilt emblem on the front board, a gilt eye outlet with the slogan We Never Sleep. Allan J. Pinkerton was a Scottish-American abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
From 1885, the rare first edition of The Spy of the Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton, Chief of the United States Secret Service, as published by M.A. Winter & Hatch, Hartford, Connecticut. Three inches thick, 688 pages. Bound in terra cotta colored cloth, gilt titles. Note the gilt emblem on the front board, a gilt eye outlet with the slogan We Never Sleep. Allan J. Pinkerton was a Scottish-American abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.