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What Thompson calls “the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings?? resides across the river at the Boston Athenaeum. The book, “The Highwayman: Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias George Walton,” is a memoir whose author lives on inside as well as on the book’s covers. Walton was impressed by the courage of a man whom he once attacked, and when Walton was facing execution, he asked to have his memoir bound in his own skin and presented to the brave...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Skinny on Harvard’s Rare Book Collection | 2/2/2006 | See Source »

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