The Immortal Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts, Portraits, Personal Relics and Other Lincolniana Collected By the Late Oliver R. Barrett
by Barrett, Oliver R. and Parke-Bernet Galleries
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1952 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. (7) 264 pp, b&w frontis, foreword, conditions of sale, The Barrett Lincoln Collection Catalogue. Public Auction Sale #1315 Sold by Order of the Executors of His Estate and of Roger W. Barrett, Chicago: First Edition, 1952. "The collection is arranged in chronological order, commencing with the earliest date document, Slave Sale in Mass. 1667, catalogue number 1, to an autograph manuscript poem 'Illinois', by Frederick M. Steele, catalogue number 808." Owners ex libris plate and embossed stamp on front endpapers. Small closed tear to top edge spine of paper-covered boards with only the faintest wear, else, Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial paper-covered boards with cover portraint of Lincoln and black lettering on front board, and black to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004143
- Title
- The Immortal Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts, Portraits, Personal Relics and Other Lincolniana Collected By the Late Oliver R. Barrett
- Author
- Barrett, Oliver R. and Parke-Bernet Galleries
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- COLLECTING OLIVER R. BARRETT COLLECTION LINCOLNIANA LETTERS DOCUMENTS ET ALIA AUCTION CATALOGUE
- Bookseller catalogs
- COLLECTING;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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