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Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett

By: Parke-Bernet Galleries

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Incorporated: 1950

Seller ID: 019580

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's light blue wrapper. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 293 pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Prices written in pencil by a former owner in the page margins. Full Title reads: "Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett; Sold by Order of His Son Roger W. Barrett; Public Auction Sale, October 30 and 31 at 8 p. m. and November...
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The Diary of Orville H. Browning: A New Source for Lincoln's Presidency; A Lecture Delivered Before the Chicago Historical Society, March 29, 1923

By: Pease, Theodore Calvin

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press: 1924

Seller ID: 019557

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original publisher's brown wrapper. Address given March 29, 1923. Published 1924. 6" x 9 1/4." Thirty-six pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean. Minimal wrinkling on the edges of the covers. Orville Browning (1806-1881) was an attorney and politician involved with the Whig and Republican Parties. His and Abraham Lincoln's political careers overlapped, and they subsequently became lifelong friends. This pamphlet is a combination of excerpts from Browning's diary, which provides first-hand insight in his and Abraham Lincoln's lives, and Theodore Pease's commentary and...
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"For the Good of the Bleeding Land" Being the Text of a Letter from James Phelan to Confederate President Jefferson Davis Dated January 21, 1865, In the Collection Of the Filson Club Historical Society.

By: Phelan, James

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky, Contre Coup Press: 1999

Seller ID: 11471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Edition of Sixty copies. 23 pages; bound in decorative boards with gray cloth backing, gilt lettering. Foreword and Afterword written by Theophile Homard. Phelan was a Confederate military judge from Mississippi who wrote the letter favoring the dismissal of Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee. Fine clean copy inside and outside.
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The Sponsor Souvenir Album and History of the United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, 1895. Patriotic Poems, War Songs, Romantic Incidents, Biographical and Historical Sketches.

By: Philpott, William Bledsoe (Editor)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Houston, TX, Sponsor Souvenir Company: 1895

Seller ID: 021737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2." 241 pages (many are unpaginated), complete. Black and white reprinted photographs and illustrations and one color frontispiece showing the Confederate flags, complete. Three additional pages in the back, two of which are advertisements for engraving and photography companies and the other being an ad for a magazine called the Confederate Veteran. The Confederate Veteran's subject matter, as the name suggests, was about veterans of the Confederate Army. The Confederate Vet...
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Southern History of the War: The Second Year of the War

By: Pollard, Edward A.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Charles B. Richardson: 1864

Seller ID: 018842

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Northern edition. Publisher's pebble cloth with impressed design and gilt lettering. All illustrations present. Map with a one inch tear, extending into printed portion. Nevens, Civil War Books. Vol. 2, page 175: "The first poplular history of the war from the Confederate point of view. Pollard's works are seriously marred by venomous anti-Davis feelings and bitter anti-Northern prejudice." No foxing or staining. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 386 pages.
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Autograph Letter Signed - J. S. Pollock

By: Pollock, J. S.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: 1918

Seller ID: 8939

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Autograph two page letter (8 x 10 inch) signed, on lined sheets. Dated April 8, 1918 from Little Rock, Arkansas. Letter to a family friend (Mrs. Barnett) commenting on news of WWI, health and discussing mutual friends. J.S. Pollock (c.1840- ) was working in the post office in St. Louis when the Civil War broke out and was appointed Post Master in a number of southern cities after the Union Army liberated them. Among the cities were Memphis (1862), Vicksburg (1863), and Little Rock (1864). After the Civil War he remained in the Postal System and later went into banking. Some evidence of folding...
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Life of U.S. Grant: Elegantly Ilusstrated

By: Poore, Ben: Perley and O.H. Tiffany

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia etc. (and) San Francisco, Hubbard Bros. (and) A.L. Bancroft: 1885

Seller ID: 019050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Publisher's illustrated green cloth. All edges gilt. Illustrated with portraits and drawings throughout. Former owner's signature on front end paper. 594 pages, complete. 6 1/4 x 8 inches.
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Lincoln and the Convention of 1860: An Address Before the Chicago Historical Society, April 4, 1918

By: Procter, Addison G.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society: 1918

Seller ID: 019547

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown wrapper. April 4, 1918. 6" x 9 1/4." Twenty-nine pages, complete. One-page biography of the author in the back. A clean copy. Addison G. Procter (1838-1925) was a delegate from Kansas to the Republican National Convention of 1860 which nominated Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. He was also a delegate from Michigan to the Convention of 1916. This is Procter's personal account presented to the Chicago Historical Society of the Convention of 1860. Referenced in Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2387.
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Gettysburg Sketches: A Concise and Illustrated History of the Battle of Gettysburg; Story; Maps; Pictures.

By: Ray, Frederic, Jr.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gettysburg, Penn., Times and News Publishing Company.: 1939

Seller ID: 724

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Wraps.
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The Convention That Nominated Lincoln: An Address Delivered Before the Chicago Historical Society on May 18, 1916, The Fifty-sixth Anniversary of Lincoln's Nomination for the Presidency

By: Ray, P. Orman

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press: 1916

Seller ID: 019560

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. May 16, 1916. 6" x 9 1/4." Thirty-eight pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2263: "Based on official records and accounts in newspapers. Contains diagram of the interior of the Wigwam." P. Orman Ray refers to these personal accounts from newspapers to describe the Convention of 1860, which took place in a building called the Wigwam in Chicago.
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Grant and His Travels: A descriptive Account of His Tour Around the World Containing also His Early Life, Millitary Achievements and History of His Civil Adminstration and His Sickness and Death.

By: Remlap, L. T.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Hurst & Company: 1885

Seller ID: 713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. 2 volumes. Later edition. Remlap is a pseud. for L.T. Palmer
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The Masque of Illinois, Presented by The Illinois Centennial Commission, October Fourth and Fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen, Eight-Fifteen P. M.

By: Rice, Wallace; Illinois Centennial Commission

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Springfield, IL, 1918

Seller ID: 019543

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's white wrapper with staple binding. October 4-5, 1918. Coliseum, Illinois State Fair Grounds, Springfield, IL. 6" x 9." Seventeen pages, complete. Pages and front cover are clean. Very light foxing on back cover. A program for "The Masque of Illinois," a play that chronicles the history of Illinois using historic events and symbolism. Front cover has an illustrated side portrait of Abraham Lincoln on front cover. Black and white reprinted portrait of the Governor of Illinois, Frank O. Lowden, and three black and white reprinted photographs of actres...
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Village Life in America, 1852-1872; Including the Period of the American Civil War as Told in the Diary of a Schoolgirl

By: Richards, Caroline Cowles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1913

Seller ID: 021996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 225 pages, complete. Six additional pages of advertisements in the back for other books. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Spine is sunned. Faint mark on front cover. A Very Good copy. Caroline Cowles Richards (1842-1913) was an American author from upstate New York. This is Richards's iconic book and reprinted diary in which she recollects her personal experiences amid the Civil War.
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Early Days in Oregon

By: Riddle, George W.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Riddle, OR, The Riddle Enterprise: 1920

Seller ID: 019130

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's wrapper. 5 3/4" x 7 1/2." Seventy-four pages, complete. Pages and front and back covers are very clean. Very minimal wear on the covers. A first edition of a much reprinted book. From Lannon W. Mintz, The Trail; no. 392: "This is a reprint of the article as it first appeared in the Riddle Enterprise [newspaper]. Riddle emigrated to Oregon in 1851 from Springfield, Illinois." George W. Riddle (1839-1927) was a pioneer who served in the military during the Civil War. He also won election for Douglas County judge and served in the Oregon legislature s...
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Original Sheet Music. "Ah! He Kissed Me When He Left Me"

By: Rogers, Cornelia and Lillia Dowling

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Root & Cady: 1863

Seller ID: 018493

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original white wrapper with decorated black boarder surrounding black lettering on the front cover. 9 3/4 X 12 3/4 inches. 4 pages. This sentimental song tells of a young woman saying goodbye to the man she loves as he goes to war. Light foxing on all pages. First page has been mended with white tape. Pages are clean and complete.
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Abraham Lincoln

By: Roldan, Salvador Camacho

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bogota, Colombia?, 0

Seller ID: 021148

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's gray wrapper with staple binding. No date, circa 1909-1925. 5" x 7 1/4." Nine pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean, but there is some wrinkling throughout the pamphlet. On the title page is the following: "Translated from La Opinion, Bogota, Colombia, June 7, 1865." Referenced in Monahan, Lincoln Bibliography as no. 709. A reprint of a eulogy to President Abraham Lincoln that also examines his character, achievements, and place in history. Salvador Camacho Roldan (1827-1900) was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the country...
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Original Sheet Music. "Tramp!, Tramp!, Tramp! The Prisoners Hope"

By: Root, Geo. F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Root & Cady: 1864

Seller ID: 018480

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

Original white wrapper with black lettering and black and white designs on the front cover. 9 3/4 X 11 3/4 inches. 4 pages. A popular song of the Civil War. George F. Root wrote both the words and music to give hope to the Union prisoners. Root (1820-1895) was an American song writer and teacher. This copy has foxing on all pages. The first page is torn with a small chip. Pages are clean and complete.
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Original Sheet Music. "Just Before The Battle, Mother"

By: Root, Geo. F.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, Root & Cady: 1864

Seller ID: 018491

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original white wrapper with detailed black and white illustrations surrounding black lettering on the front cover. 9 3/4 X 13 inches. 4 pages. Root (1820-1895) was an American composer. "Just Before The Battle, Mother" was a popular song for The Union Army. "Just Before The Battle, Mother" tells the story of a young man thinking of home while on the field awaiting the battle. Foxing on all pages. The first page has been mended with white tape. Music and scores are still legible. A small tear along the bottom edge of the front cover. Pages are clean and complete.
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Blaine of Maine: His Life and Times

By: Russell, Charles Edward

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1931

Seller ID: 020807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with a multicolored dust wrapper that has an illustrated portrait of James G. Blaine on the front panel and a small illustration of an eagle on the spine. Dust wrapper in mylar. Gilt lettering on front cover of the book. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." 446 pages, complete. Eight black and white plates, complete. Index in the back. Back panel of the dust wrapper has an advertisement for two other biographies. Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is very clean and intact overall. Dust wrapper has very s...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography

By: Russell, L. E.; Miner, William Harvey (Introduction)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cedar Rapids, IA, The Torch Press: 1910

Seller ID: 019591

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Catalog No. 21. Original publisher's brown wrapper. October 1910. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2." Twenty-four pages, complete. A brief bibliography of Lincoln memorabilia listed in alphabetical order. Introduction by William Harvey Miner. Printed on the inside of the back cover is an advertisement for a publication about Abraham Lincoln and William Herndon. On the back cover is an advertisement for a poster commemorating the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Pages are clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact except for a small chip in the lower-right corner of the front ...
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Category: Civil War