Fort Wayne, IN: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1953. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition of this excerpt from Beveridge's 1928 two-volume "Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858," being the second chapter of the first volume. Uncommon. More
Fort Wayne, IN: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1953. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Illustrations. Near fine. A tight, quite attractive first edition of this excerpt from Beveridge's 2-volume 1928 opus "Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858" -- second chapter of the first volume. Uncommon. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxviii, 607pp; vii, 741pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear and faint scuffing. First trade edition, tight and decent and handleable. Discreet ex-library, with very few and mostly-removed markings -- still a nice..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1928]. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxvi, 297pp; vi, 310pp; vi, 361pp; vi, 381pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Very good. Faintest binding edgewear only -- internally tight and fine; Lincoln-theme bookplate on each front pastedown with collector's tiny name neatly excised..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete). 8vo. Burgundy cloth. xxii, 594pp; xx, 668pp. Frontispieces. Very good. Spine lettering rubbed. Later printing of the noted Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first published in 1920, a tight and clean set. Quaint non-authorial gift inscription "To our beloved Headmaster" from "The Class..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark khaki green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. v, 486pp. 2 maps. Near fine. Other than the most minor of faint binding wear, only a small hand-lettered shelf label near foot of spine. Handsome, quite tight first edition of Beveridge's first..... More