Abraham Lincoln: The Lawyer-Statesman
by RICHARDS, John T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. vii, 260pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, else internally fine and tight; early owner, who initials front pastedown, inks some biographical notes about Richards alongside his printed name on title page. Handsome first edition of this early study of Lincoln as attorney. Rather uncommon. MONAGHAN 2266.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44155
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln: The Lawyer-Statesman
- Author
- RICHARDS, John T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Abraham Lincoln; Crime & Law;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...