Description: The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and Robert Townsend by Morton Pennypacker, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1930, 118pp, cloth, 6.5 x 9.5", 8vo Fair condition. Wear and staining to front and rear boards as well as spine. Leather panel bearing title on front board and spine. Bookplate for John Bakeless on front pastedown. Numbered 543 of 750. Frontispiece of Nathan Hale opposite title page. Toning and instances of age-staining throughout textblock. Previous price on rear pastedown. Includes multiple illustrations/photographs. Please see photos. Frank Knox Morton Pennypacker (1872 - 1956) was a collector of Long Island, New York historical material and author of several books on Long Island history, including George Washington's Spies, the story of the Culper Ring. Pennypacker discovered that "Samuel Culper, Junior", the head spy of the Culper Ring, was Robert Townsend, a member of the renowned New York Townsend family, by identifying an exact match in penmanship between the Culper letters attributed to Culper Junior and letters written by Robert Townsend. FORN-MSB-0224-TUB0009-JC186
Price: 125 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: Numbered
Author: Morton Pennypacker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Historical
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1930
