Assassination Of President Garfield DAS ATTENTAT AUF PRÄSIDENT German Pamphlet

Original pictorial wrappers, spine chipped. Light tanning but otherwise quite clean internally. Overall good plus. A rare German-language pamphlet capitalizing on the dramatic news of President Garfield's assassination and Guiteau's ensuing trial. Garfield's death in 1881 understandably caused a sensation, and the assassin's attendant eccentricities and theatrical behavior generated an immediate and powerful demand for news coverage; a rush of pamphlets of varying sympathies and quality were printed before the end of the year in English, French, Dutch, German, and more.
Barclay would follow up this pamphlet a few months later with The Great Guiteau Trial., which was also translated into German shortly afterwards. Interesting evidence of the growing sensationalism in mass media in the late 19th century, as well as these publishers' eagerness to tap into different segments of the population. While the English version is somewhat scarce as well, OCLC records this very rare