A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, [1967]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. 242pp. Extensive illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. Binding rather edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Ownership signature on front pastedown of Ralph Gordon, noted medical book and military history collector. Item #39186
Tight and decent later printing of this well-illustrated overview by the well-known Illinois and Civil War historian (1901-75), with a fine autograph addition: Tipped to the inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Angle, 1p, 8½" X 11", Springfield, IL, 1945 April 19. Addressed to Ralph G Newman, founder of Chicago's famed Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Very good. On "Illinois State Historical Library" letterhead which cites him as state historian, Angle thanks the bookseller cryptically for some list, noting: "In this instance Sickles really must have made a killing. If you ever find out who the original purchaser was I'd like to know." Signed simply "Paul" in blue ink. Sickles would be a reference to infamous Abraham Lincoln forger Harry Dayton Sickles, who along with Eugene "Pinny" Field II was blanketing the country with forged autograph items of Lincoln and other historical figures.
Price: $55.00