Search Results: Abraham Lincoln from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

New York, NY: The Tandy-Thomas Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). In dark blue cloth, corners lightly bumbped. Covers lightly scuffed. Endpapers a bit yellowed, otherwise in very nice condition. The last quarter of the pages are unopened (still attached at foredge to next page). 31 p. The book ends with the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 426 p. w/ illus., endnotes, index. Pulitzer prize winning book about Lincoln and his changing views on slavery. One of the two best history books this bookseller has read in the last 15 years.

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Slight smudge of foredge SIGNED by Foner on the title page. 426 p. w/ illus., endnotes, index. Pulitzer prize winning book about Lincoln and his changing views on slavery. One of the two best history books this bookseller has read in the last 15 years.

Springfield, IL: Illinois Historical Society, ca. 1912-1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good to good in red cloth spines and green cloth boards. Gilt detail and lettering on spine and front covers. "Histosical" - misspelling on cover of v. 3. V. 3 is shorter and has a darker green coth on boards. All volumes show wear to edges and corners, with scuffing to covers. Some soiling to spines. 2 p. have a small chip missing from top edge in v. 1. Hinge starting at front and read endpapers on vol. 3. A collection of articles about Lincoln removed from issues of the Journal by a collectror, who had them bound uniquely and securely but a bit roughly. Bindings are solid on all vols except where noted on v. 3. A great number of topics about or related to Lincoln are included. Extra shipping required as this is a 3 vol. set.

Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Samped name of former onwer on lower part of the flyleaf. 256 p. w/ maps, introduction, appendix, index. Indented tabs for each year and the appendix.

Chicago: J. Henri Ripstra, 1945. First edition. Hardcover in blue cloth binding. Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Top corners slightly numped. Pages edges a bit yellowed. NUmberd 262 of 500 copies, as noted in the hand of the publisher and initialled by him. Also SIGNED and inscribed by publisher, J. Henri Ripstra, the founder of the Lincoln group of Chicago, to previous owner on title page. 231 pages with footnotesand index. A collection of essays on aspects of Lincoln's life fincluding his time in Illinois, his presidency, the influences on him, and his friends.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957. First edition. Original Wraps. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to wear to edges and corners of covers. A bit of soiling to covers. Pages -very sightly- browned at edges. 351 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. A detailed biography of this important diarist, laywer, and politician of the Lincoln and Johnson era, drawing in part on the "informative, though sometimes wearisome" diary (from the intro) as well and many, many other sources. Uncommon.

New York, NY: The Republican Club of the City of New York. Printed by Jacques and Co. , 1909. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. Octavo in blue cloth with bright gilt lettering to covers. Slight wear to edgs and corners. Small tear in binding at top of back board. Slight soiling to covers and edges of text. Small circular pencil mark on pastedown. 72 p. Contains the speeches of a number of notables, including scientist and African American activist Booker T. Washington, Representative and Senator Theodore E. Burton (then living in NY City and working in banking) who worked under Teddy Roosevelt and co-sponsored the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Congressman James Francis Burke who founded the organization (American Republican College League) that became the College Republicans, and Rev. Howard Duffield of the "Old First" Presbyterian Church in NY City, who had addressed the group on at least one earlier Lincoln dinner. According to a NY Times article after the event,… Read More

Atlanta, GA.: "Blue" and "Gray" Veterans, 1909. First edition. Pamphlet. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). Stringbound. Slight wear to edges and corners of paper covers. Small tear at top of front cover near spine. Library stamp on cover and title, no other library markings. 48 p. A full, almost verbatim coverage of the events of Lincoln's 100th birthday by this group of veterans in the South, including editorials published later, comments by speakers, orations, and activities. An interesting window into a joint patriotic Union and Confederate veteran's event.