Lincoln and Gettysburg.
Gettysburg: Times & News Publishing Co., [1988]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 55pp, (3pp). Illustrations. Near fine. A tight and attractive reprint edition of this 1949 study. More
Gettysburg: Times & News Publishing Co., [1988]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 55pp, (3pp). Illustrations. Near fine. A tight and attractive reprint edition of this 1949 study. More
New York: Exposition Press, [1959]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering. 118pp, (2pp). Near fine. A tight, attractive first edition. More
Chicago: Americana House, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 190pp. Fine/fine. A tight and perfectly pristine reprint of this 1961 study, from the collection of lawyer and U.S. Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021). Frank (1918-2002) was a noted jurist and Yale law professor best known for..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, [1960]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear and faintly sunned spine. First edition, tight and nice, of this standard title -- and bearing choice autograph addition: Tipped opposite half-title page is a Typed Note Signed from..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1891. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt. 398pp. Frontispiece. Very good. First edition of this volume in the "American Reformers Series." Ownership signature of Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold Gates (1914-93) on front pastedown. MONAGHAN 1083. More
N.p. State of Illinois, 1915. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. 125pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Tight, clean first edition with bright gilt. More
N.p. State of Illinois, 1915. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth. 125pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Especially tight, clean first edition. More
N.p. State of Illinois, 1915. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 125pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. A tight and quite attractive first edition, with gilt gleaming -- and an intriguing copy, for the front flyleaf is boldly inscribed in black ink: "Sarah Bond Hanley / To / Adlai E...... More
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, [1993]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown buckram, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 308pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and handsome. More
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, [1997]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 239pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and nice second printing. More
Washington: War Department, 1864 February 22. Handbill. 2pp. 12mo. Very good. File holes at left edge, not affecting text -- almost a "Near fine." "A PROCLAMATION" being Lincoln's revoking of the blockade of the port of Brownsville, Texas. Declares "that the blockade of the said port of Brownsville shall so..... More
Chicago: Fine Arts Guild, n.y., [1946?]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. (13pp). Illustrations. Very good. Interesting Lincoln-theme bookplate ("Private Library of Sigurd Stornes Storm") on inside front wrapper. Mini-history of the art of illuminated manuscripts, but mainly the story of Chicago artist Gentile (born 1890) and his Gettysburg Address project..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Hardcover. 16mo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering and large color plate to front board. 51pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. Mild binding wear, internally near fine. Tight and nice first edition of this Lincoln fiction, what Monaghan calls "A story of toys and tears..... More
New York: Exposition Press, [1967]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light grey cloth with dark grey lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 170pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition of this biography of the entertainer and clown (1823-1900). More
New York: Simon & Schuster, [2005]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 916pp. Illustrations, map, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of the film-inspiring Pulitzer Prize winner -- with choice film-related autograph addition: Tipped..... More
Garden City: Garden City Books, [1951]. Hardcover. Edited by Helen Hoke. Illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. 8vo. Terra cotta paper over boards with black and yellow lettering and decoration. 186pp. Line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Sans jacket, else a tight and pristine reprint edition of this juvenile biography -- a...... More
Garden City: Garden City Books, [1951]. Hardcover. Edited by Helen Hoke. Illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. 8vo. Green paper over boards with gilt spine lettering and decorative paper over boards. 186pp. Line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Inoffensive corner bumps only, else bright and tight. Sans jacket, else an attractive tight..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with black lettering. viii, 129pp. Very good. Inoffensive abrasion on front pastedown and half-title page. A tight and nice first edition of these "Lincoln Sesquicentennial Lectures," with contributions from Roy P. Basler, T. Harry Williams, David Donald and Graebner. More
Chicago: Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois, 1944. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue wrappers. 20pp. Illustrations. Transcript of this gathering, with an address by Richard J. Lyons. Thomas Ambrose, Civil War veteran and president of this organization (his portrait serves as the frontispiece), inscribes the inside front cover "With..... More
Chicago: Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association, 1934-51. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue and grey wrappers. Each 20pp. Illustrations. Seventeen issues of this annual, covering the years 1934-46 and 1948-51. Very good to fine. Interesting programs representing the last gasp of the original G.A.R. members; by the time of the fifty-second..... More
Chicago: Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois, 1947. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff orange wrappers. 20pp. Fine. Laid in is an Autographed Note Signed for Ambrose by an assistant, 1p, 8½" X 5", Chicago, IL, 1947 April 8. Addressed to John W. Starr Jr. Fine. Transmits this booklet. More
Chicago: Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois, 1945. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue wrappers. 20pp. Features an address by Noble W. Lee. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from Lincoln scholar John W. Starr Jr., 1p, 5½" X 8¼", Millersburg, PA, 1945 March 15. Addressed to Thomas Ambrose..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with ivory lettering and decoration. 282pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 full-page illustrations (as called for). Good plus. Binding rather rubbed and edgeworn though internally very good. A tight, decent 6th printing of this 1909 historical fiction..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, [1994]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with copper lettering and glossy paper over boards. viii, 230pp. Fine. Nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Facsimile reprint, tight and handsome, of the 1912 "Lincoln's Own Stories." MONAGHAN 2025. More
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [2004]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xvi, 377pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and attractive first softbound edition. More