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EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER: Western Gentleman, Frontier Lawyer, American Statesman
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Near fine in light blue illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of front cover) .
Book ID: 79630More details Price: $21.50 -
THE EMANCIPATOR'S WIFE: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A fascinating picture of the flawed but passionate woman who loved, and was loved by, Abraham Lincoln - uses as a springboard, her incarceration in an insane asylum 10 years after the death of Lincoln, by her only surviving son. 608 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Near fine (bump to the bottom edge affecting a few pages and the front cover.) A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 36249More details Price: $30.00 -
LINCOLN'S SECRETARY: A Biography of John G. Nicolay.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, (1949). Hardcover first edition - A warm biography of this German-born immigrant who became President Lincoln's private secretary by his daughter. Although he had had a significant early career as editor in Illinois, and a political power in that state and went on to co-write the definitive biography of Lincoln and much more afterwards, it was the 4 years - from 1861 to Lincoln's death - that were the center of his life. Illustrated with photographs. Index. x, 363 pp.
Condition: Very good in terra cotta cloth, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 90576More details Price: $15.00 -
BUSTED FLUSH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Civil war buffs and con men collide in this wickedly funny story of old-time relics and modern greed." SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780805076509.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61185More details Price: $30.00 -
THE TROUBLE THEY SEEN: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1976 dj. Hardcover first edition - Covers black history in America from 1865 to 1877 from the point of view of less prominent blacks of the South in letters, diaries, newspaper accounts and official documents. With mention of Frederick Douglass, Jonathon Gibbs, Martin R. Delany, Robert Smalls, and James Lynch. Index. 490 pgs. ISBN: 0-385-080077.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj.
Book ID: 19859More details Price: $20.00 -
HE KNEW LINCOLN and Other Billy Brown Stories.
Edition: Early reprint.
New York: Macmillan, 1922. Hardcover - A collection of four stories, originally published in 1907 and 1909, which present a picture of Lincoln as told, in informal midwestern dialect, by Billy Brown, a young Illinois neighbor. Includes an introduction by Tarbell in which she talks about the connection between the "Billy Browns" found in many small towns and Lincoln. In addition to her muckracking journalism regarding Standard Oil, Tarbell was also known for her biography "The Life of Abraham Lincoln." Illustrated with 6 full-page glossy plates, all in the first story. xix, 179 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with red lettering and illustration of Lincoln on front cover, gilt titling on spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86429More details Price: $16.50