novelist's son commits mining fraud
HAWTHORNE, Julian.
Solomon Columbus Rhodes and Company.
1909.
The author, Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), was the son of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a talented journalist and writer in his own right. He used his skill and family name to sell half a million shares of stock in non-existent mining companies in Canada before being discovered and convicted of mail fraud, spending a year in prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
First edition; 12mo (17 x 12 cm); portrait frontispiece to half-title verso, centre gathering loose; original pale green wrappers, stamped in blue, stapled; [32]pp.
Stock code 109850
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