CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT The Last of the New England Highwaymen

Hardback. Reprint of the 3rd Edn. A Narrative of His Life and Adventures, with some Account of the Notorious Captain Thunderbolt. Michael Martin is believed to have been the last person in Massachusetts to be hanged for highway robbery. Shortly before his execution he dictated to Frederick W. Waldo of Boston, a reporter on the 'Columbian Centinel', an account of his life and adventures which was immediately published. Illus. 162pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. With previous owner's personal b/plate and tiny bookseller's label to fpd, lightly browned edges, small mks to covers o/w Vg. First Trade Edn. of the Wayside Press (private press).