The Day They Shook the Plum Tree
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., (1983). Ronald Clyne (dust jacket design). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. [2], 3 - 314. Bound in plum-colored cloth, gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the dust jacket that shows faded spine, light edge-wear, price of $5.75 intact on front flap. Fine / Good+. Item #11851
An expose of the infamous American miser Hetty Green, whose extreme parsimony was matched by the vast fortune she created -- through forgery, penury, ruthlessness and genius, it turns out, as the author writes in the dust jacket copy.
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