Three Letters From Hell : 1988 Limited Edition [ Jack The Ripper ]
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Limited Edition Printing of Most Famous Jack The Ripper Letters Including From Hell Published For 100th Anniversary
Anonymous. Three Letters From Hell: Letters Reportedly In The Hand of the Whitechapel Murderer. Lands End Press. [San Francisco]. 1988. Limited edition.
A copy of the limited edition release, Three Letters From Hell, reprinting the most famous letters attributed to Jack The Ripper for the 100th anniversary of the 1888 Whitechapel murders.
Beautifully printed in red ink on laid paper, the collection includes reprints of the “Dear Boss”, “Saucy Jack”, and “From Hell” letters published by London newspapers during the height of the Whitechapel Murder hysteria over the brutal deaths of five area prostitutes. The name “Jack the Ripper” first appeared in the “Dear Boss” letter, though the otherwise unsigned “From Hell” letter is believed to be the most likely to be authentic as it was sent to investigator George Lusk with half a human kidney, purportedly taken from one of the Ripper victims.
Limited to 175 copies in total, this was one of the hundred distributed to members of the California bibliophile societies, the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, by Lands End Press director Wade C Hughan.
8 copies found in OCLC as of November 2024.
[8]pp. Saddle stitched pamphlet with black patterned paper wraps. Minor bumping with crease to lower fore corners. Pages clean. Very good.
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