Title continued: ".Including a Biography of Gen'l John A. Logan, and Embracing a History of the Principles and Achievements of the Republican Party, With Platforms of Both Parties From 1856, and Other Valuable Political Documents". Illustrations. Gilt accent front cover and spine, with many decorations in black. Small damp stain bottom corner edges pages 148-224, 351-454, and 509-end. Text unaffected. 576 pages. Book plate front end paper. Patterned end papers front and rear. Contents include: Early family life; Graduates college, with honors; College professor; Journalist; Marriage; State pol... View More...
(1902, reprinted from Cosmopolitan Magazine). 16 pages, printed wrapper, 5 1/4 x 4". Nice copy, partly unopened. Gives text of a letter from Lincoln to Major-General Hooker warning him about criticizing those above him and withholding aid from fellow officers, then Hubbard adds his preaching. View More...
Original brown cloth, re-spined with leather label. Repair to inner margin of title page and preface page. All 11 illustrations present. 6 x 8 inches. 492 pages. View More...
Original publisher's green paper wrappers. No date, circa 1914. 5 1/2" x 8." Thirty-eight pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for age toning. Covers are clean and intact overall. Covers have tape repair along spine (they may have come complete loose), age toning on front and back (browning along edges), and a few small chips along edges. A Good copy. In this pamphlet, A. P. Hutchinson says the turning point of the Civil War was the national confession of Christ made by resolution of the United States Senate on March 2, 1863. Hutchinson further elaborates on this id... View More...
Original publisher's white wrapper. 6" x 9." Thirty-two pages, complete. Black and white reprinted photographs, complete. Pages and covers are intact. This pamphlet is a guide for visitors to use while viewing items in the Lincoln Room for the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and lists all of the items in the "Illinois" Lincoln Exhibit. Also included in the pamphlet are black and white reprinted portraits of Illinois Governor Len Small and several members of the Illinois Sesqui-Centennial Commission. On the back cover is a reprinted image of the Illinois Building for the Exp... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper. 4 1/4" x 6 3/4." Thirty-five pages, complete. Pages are very clean; binding is tight. There are only a few marks: a small pencil mark on top margin of front wrapper and few small spots on inside of front cover and front free endpaper. A clean, fine copy overall. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 1755: "Itemized account of Lincoln's religion. 'Ann Rutledge gave him a new view of the Bible and Shakespeare.'" View More...
Original publisher's brown paper wrappers with staple binding. "Lincoln" printed on front cover. No date, circa 1921. 6" x 9." Twenty-nine pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Printed by the Royal Printing Company of Quincy, Illinois. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages have slight age toning. Covers have slight wrinkling, a few creases, and a bit of fading along the edges. A Very Good copy. A concise leaflet about the accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Monument (Lincoln's Tomb) in Springfield, Illinois that was dedicated in 1874. ... View More...
Manuscript document signed and dated August 1874 (8 x 12 1/2 inch), one page. Henry Johnson (1819-1895) was a longtime Muncy, Pa lawyer. in 1860 he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate, eventually rising to the position of chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From this position he shepherded a bill through the state Senate that eventually allowed Pennsylvania soldiers during the civil war to vote from where they were stationed. Some attribute the passage of this bill to Abraham Lincoln winning the state of Pennsylvania in the 1864 election. Henry Johnson also served as a soldier... View More...
Original blue cloth with impressed design and gilt lettering and gilt design of a solider on the front cover. 11 X 13 1/2 inches. 551 pages which include 11 pages of Index. Copy has 8 color lithograph and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations throughout copy. 1 lithograph is slightly torn on the edge, as are several pages. Some pages had smudge spots. Mild scuffing on covers. Copy is clean and complete. Binding is tight,. View More...
Original publisher's brown paper wrappers with staple binding. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." Sixteen pages, complete. Three black-and-white plates, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for slight wrinkling. Binding is tight. Covers are very clean and intact except for some surface chipping along spine (appears brown cloth tape may have been on spine) and fading along spine that extends about 1 1/2" inward on front and back. Staples slightly rusted. A Very Good copy. Thomas D. Jones (1808/11-1881) was an American sculptor who worked in wood, stone, marble, and other media. Jone... View More...
Original publisher's olive and black cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 5 1/2" x 8." 318 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece portrait of John A. Joyce, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall. Front and back hinges have been reglued. Front free endpaper and back free endpaper are missing. There are pencil scrawls on four blank pages in the front and back, somewhat erased. Covers have slight rubbing, edge and corner wear, and wear at the head and tail of the spine. A Good copy. Autobiography of Colonel John A. Joyce (1842-1915), who served in the Kentuc... View More...
Original publisher's olive-brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Black checkered pattern on front and back. 5 1/2" x 8." 318 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations including a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Repairs done to corners and tail of spine (gray patches). Covers and spine are darkened and moderately rubbed. Pages have the occasional small stain and pencil annotation. Closed tear on Page 291; text is affected but still readable. Lines scrawled in pencil are on the blank recto of th... View More...
3 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches. Shows Keim in business suit, with moustache and hair parted in middle. Inscribed on the back by Keim: " Henry May Keim. Reading. 6 November 1877. To my dear Cousin Laura." Henry May Kein (b. 1841--d. 1899) was from an old and prominent Reading, PA family. He graduted from Union College in New York in 1862 and served twice in the Civil War, first with Company * of the 11th Pennsylvania Militia and next as a Lieutenant in Company A of the 53rd Pennsylvania. He was later successful in law, business and government. In 1885 he was appointed U.S. Consul at Charlottetown, Prince... View More...
Original blue wrappers printed in black. Two page introduction by Foster original to this edition. Originally published during the Civl War (1863) as "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839." The booklet was printed by Foster, director of the fine printing department at Scripps College. Published in a small edition. 26 pages. View More...
Original publisher's light green paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. No lettering on spine. "The Louisville & Nashville: An Outline History" printed on front. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." Sixty-seven pages, complete. Bibliography in back. Back colophon: "Designed and printed especially for Young & Ottley, Inc., by the Caxton Press, New York." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning and minuscule wear to fore-edge. Covers are very clean and intact except for moderate rubbing to front and back on paper-covered boards and slight bumping on corners and edges. Bin... View More...
Original white wrapper with decorated black boarders surrounding black lettering on the front cover. 10 X 13 inches. 4 pages. "Tenting On The Old Camp Ground" (also known as "Tenting Tonight") was a popular song during the Civil War, particularly to the Union Army. This song is about the life of a solider, missing home and loved ones and the men dying or wounded in battle. A previous owners impressed stamp mark is on the lower front cover which reads, "Seeger & Rotchka, dealers in books, music, instruments, stationary, pictures". Copy has been mended with white tape. Music and scores are still... View More...
Original sheet music for "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". 9 3/4 X 13 inches. 4 pages. This song was popular during the Civil War. The composer Louis Lambert was actually composer Patrick Gilmore. Gilmore (1829-1892) was an Irish-American band leader. Gilmore wrote "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. This copy has a small tear along the edge which has been previously mended with white tape. Musical scores are legible. Front cover has light foxing. Copy is clean and complete. View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper. February 12, 1909. 6" x 9 1/2." Twenty-four pages, complete. Address is titled, "Lincoln the Honest Man, Abolished Slavery, Reestablished the Union, Saved the Republic, Without Veiling the Statue of Liberty." Includes a black and white reprinted portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A clean copy. Pages are very clean and undamaged. This speech was given by William H. Lambert, a member of the Union League. Lambert was introduced by the Union League president, James F. Hope, at the event. In the address, Lambert reminisces about Abraham Lincoln and his achiev... View More...
