Original publisher's gray cloth binding. 6" x 9." 224 pages (including two pages of advertisements for other books in the back), complete. Index in back. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Former ownership bookplate on front pastedown belonging to A. B. Horsley that shows a ship in a harbor. This is a biography of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), who was an American poet, a Quaker, and an advocate for the abolition of slavery. Georgina King Lewis (1847-1924) was a philanthropist, Quaker, and supporter of the temperance movement. She was an important figure in ... View More...
Original publisher's beige wrapper with an impressed portrait medallion of Abraham Lincoln on the front cover. 5" x 7 1/2." Eighty pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean. Some pages are uncut at the top. Slight folding at the top of the front cover; does not affect the portrait medallion. A very clean and intact copy overall. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2151: "Speeches by Pres. J. Otis Humphrey, Sen. Joseph T. Robinson, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, and Hon. Percival G. Rennick." View More...
Original publisher's beige wrapper with an impressed portrait medallion of Abraham Lincoln on the front cover. 5" x 7 1/2." Seventy-nine pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean. Some pages are uncut at the top. A clean and intact copy. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2250: "Opening remarks by Pres. J. Otis Humphrey; addresses by Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Lawrence Y. Sherman, and Bishop William A. Quayle; account of marking the location of Lincoln's farewell address in Springfield." View More...
Original publisher's beige wrapper with an impressed portrait medallion of Abraham Lincoln on the front cover. 5" x 7 1/2." Sixty-seven pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean. Some pages are uncut at the top. A clean and intact copy. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2195: "Speeches by Gov. Edward F. Dunne, Archbishop John P. Glennon, Gutzon Borglum, and Samuel Fallows. Latter half of volume is devoted to memorial exercises for semi-centennial anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln." View More...
Original publisher's beige wrapper with an impressed portrait medallion of Abraham Lincoln on the front cover. 6 1/4" x 9 3/8." Sixty-one pages, complete. Pages are very clean except for a few pages with minimal foxing near the inside of the spine. Covers are clean. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2035: "Addresses by Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank B. Willis, and John Armstrong, a brother of Duff." View More...
Original publisher's beige wrapper with an impressed portrait medallion of Abraham Lincoln on the front cover. 5" x 7 1/2." 108 pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean. Some pages are uncut at the top. Slight crease on front cover. A clean and intact copy overall. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2237: "Foreword by Sec. P. B. Warren, with copy of Lincoln's reply to Gov. Thomas Carney. Addresses by William Renwick Riddell, Thomas Power O'Connor, and Addison G. Proctor [sic]." View More...
Original publisher's gray cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. 5 3/4" x 8 5/8." 112 pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact except for a few very faint, small stains in the upper-right corner of the front cover. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Preface: "Like Saul of Tarsus, Lincoln when he addressed the Scott Club carried a commission to persecute the unfaithful, -- and the Scott Club speech may be construed as the 'stoning' of Stephen [Douglas]. At least, critics partial to sensational testimony may find cause in the speech to represent Lincoln ... View More...
Limited edition. One of 1000 copies. Original publisher's gray wrapper with a silhouetted blue outline of Abraham Lincoln on the front. 6" x 9." Published April 15, 1957. Nine pages, complete. Colophon in the back: "1000 copies were printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, April 15, 1957." Pages and covers are very clean. A brief article by Ralph G. Lindstrom, President of the Lincoln Fellowship of California, on how F. Ray Risdon became an avid collector of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia. View More...
New Biographical Series, No. 73. No date, circa 1895. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2." Sixteen pages, complete. Pamphlet with a black and white illustrated portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the front cover. Pages are clean and intact. A brief biography that chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln and concludes with a eulogistic section on his character. View More...
Original white wrapper with a decorated black boarder surrounding black lettering on the front cover. 10 X 13 inches. 4 pages. This song tells the story of a soldier who has come home from the war to tell of the causalities. Foxing on all pages. Spots on the back cover. Pages are clean and complete. View More...
Excerpt from a 1891 issue of Harper's Magazine with cardstock cover. Chipping along edges and spine of cover. 34 pages with 14 illustrations. Originally written in 1866 and 1867, this is the author's edited version of his experiences in Andersonville and other Confederate prisons during the Civil War. View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 194 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece showing an illustrated portrait of General McClellan, complete. Twelve additional pages of advertisements in the back for other books published by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Former owners' inscriptions on the front endpaper; the one on the pastedown is written in black ink and is dated 1937; the other was on the front free endpaper in pencil and has been erased. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Gilt lettering is faded. There is ... View More...
First Edition, Thus. Original leaflet printed in black ink on white paper. 7" x 10." Unpaginated, four pages (one leaf folded in half and printed on all sides), complete. Two black-and-white portrait illustrations of Israel Green and Columbus Delano, complete. Leaflet is clean and intact overall. Some dampstaining and discoloration at head and tail of spine. Light to moderate wrinkling throughout. A Good copy. A reprinted article from the Lincoln Herald that discusses Ohio's role in proposing that Abraham Lincoln should run for president. Included are brief discussions of two noted m... View More...
Inscribed by McCulloch, Lincoln's Treasury Secretary (front end paper). Chipping spine top; slight chipping spine bottom. Wear to corners. Front end papers split at spine top, small damp stain and one inch tear page top. The author speaks and writes about many issues including the Civil War in 1861 and 1865 (the beginning and the end); money; currency -- legal tender notes; silver certificates; the tariff; taxation; import duties; foreign exchange; the right to vote; labor-saving inventions; labor; a Republic form of government; etc. View More...
House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 123. Front and rear cover pages loose. From page 1: ".during the late rebellion, a large number of vessels, cribs, and other obstructions, were placed in the channel of the Savannah river by the so-called confederate government, to bar access to the city by the naval and military forces of the United States". The issue for discussion is who is authorized to remove obstructions and who can lay claim to the materials. Captured and abandoned property. View More...
Second Edition - enlarged and revised. Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration of a canteen on front. Moderate rubbing, bumped corners. "Book No. 2" printed on front cover. 271 pages. John McElroy (1846-1929) was a printer, author and soldier in the Civil War. He is most noted for his 4 vol. work "Andersonville", which was based on his experiences as a prisoner of war. This book is a fictional work about the adventures of a two soldiers, "Josiah Klegg, of the 200th Indiana, and Shorty, his Partner". View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 199 pages, complete. Black-and-white plates, complete. Folding pocket map present but torn. Pocket is part of the front pastedown. Tipped-in Errata facing the Contents page. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact overall but have bumped corners, a slightly sunned spine, some splitting along the back inner hinge, and chipping at the head and tail of spine. A Very Good copy. A record of the Battle of Chickamauga, Ohio regiments and batteries, and associated monu... View More...
Limited edition. One of 100 copies. Original publisher's blue wrapper. 6" x 7 1/2." Seven pages, complete. Pages are clean and undamaged. This pamphlet features a broadside for one of Abraham Lincoln's speeches in Alton, Illinois in his early political career and provides background information on the historical context of this speech. View More...
Original publisher's plate (chart) from a U.S. government report (36th Congress, 2nd Session, no. 1; circa 1860) showing monthly water levels in the five Great Lakes from 1859-1860. No date, circa 1860. Chart folds out to 20 1/2" x 33." Chart is very clean and intact overall. There is some splitting at the folds and very minimal foxing and browning. Months and years at the horizontal (X) axis. Lake names and water levels are on the vertical (Y) axis. Each lake has readings from three or four stations. George G. Meade (1815-1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during... View More...
