Massachusetts: [n.p.], 1863. Broadside. 28 x 20 inches. FIRST EDITION. Mounted on cloth, folded in quarters, minor splitting a center fold; light soiling and edgewear with minor chips (without loss of text), very light annotations in ink on verso (visible to recto right margin). Overall an excellent example of this... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. 8vo. 717 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half brown morocco over marbled boards, extremities rubbed, leather a bit scuffed. Very good. First edition. Following Lincoln's assassination, there was an outpouring of grief and sympathy from around the world. This volume contains the correspondence from individuals, cities and... More
[New York]: [Athenaeum Club], [1865]. Folio. [37] pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece portrait. Original printed purple wrappers housed in a quarter-calf portfolio, rear joint splitting; chipping and soiling to wrappers with some splitting at the folds, still a very good copy of this large fragile item. First edition, number... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], [1917.]. Broadside. Facsimile broadside in wrapper folder; light soiling and edgewear to wrapper, otherwise fine. One of 75 copies printed and signed by H.E. Barker. Facsimile of a very rare broadside published by Herndon as a rebuttal to attacks that he gave mis-information to Lincoln biographers in regard..... More
[Philadelphia]: [Union League of Philadelphia], [1864]. 8vo. 8pp. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers, disbound; light soiling and toning. First edition of this scarce pamphlet published during the 1864 elections in support of re-electing Lincoln as President. Monaghan, 359. More
Folio. 4 pp. Folded as issued. No. 1 of 25 copies, signed by the author. Briggs is also known for his semi-classic treatise on buying and selling rare books. More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], [1909]. 8vo. [11] pp.; printed on recto only. Stiff printed boards. No. 1 of 25 copies printed. Originally printed in the April, 1909 issue of Century magazine, these are the reminiscences of the wartime manager of Grover's Theatre, Washington. Monaghan 1734. More
Washington, D.C. O.H. Oldroyd, 1901. 8vo. xviii, 305 pp. FIRST EDITION. Fine steel engraved frontispiece of Lincoln bound in, numerous plates and text illustrations. Half green morocco and marbled boards, title in gilt to spine. Some light wear to spine and extremities. First edition, number 227 of 250 copies signed... More
St. Louis: Sherman Spencer, 1865. 8vo. 19 pp. First edition. Disbound. Light soiling. Near fine. First edition. Starr (1826-1867) was Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan, New York. Monaghan 745. More
Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rogers, 1865. 8vo. 15 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, lightly soiled and chipped, creased throughout from fold; light finger soiling and creasing. First edition. Quite scarce with only 150 copies printed, OCLC locates ten copies. Monaghan, 747. More
[New York]: [Athenaeum Club], [1865]. 8vo. [37] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed purple wrappers, lightly chipped with sun fading to the front wrapper. Unopened. First edition. One of five hundred copies printed. It contains addresses by T. Bailey Myers, Parke Godwin, George P. Putnam and others, and a poem by... More
Boston: William V. Spencer, 1865. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, lightly soiled, crease to rear wrapper. A near fine copy of this scarce pamphlet. First edition of this poem, one of 250 copies printed. Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) was a prolific writer and artist. He was appointed ambassador... More
San Francisco: John Howell, 1923. 8vo. Errata slip tipped-in. FIRST EDITION. Half blue cloth over blue cloth boards, boards soiled with some fraying to cloth; very light foxing, otherwise very good. First edition of this biography, No. 119 of 125 copies signed by the author. Printed on Old Stratford Paper... More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, 1865. 8vo. 476, [4] pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece. Gray pebbled cloth, decorated in gilt, some light wear (especially to corners) some chipping to head and foot of spine. Aside from a few minor smudges to first couple of pages, interior is very good. First... More
New York: John A. Gray & Green, 1866. 8vo. 32 pp. Original printed wrappers, minor chipping, otherwise a very good copy. Second edition of a sermon given by Crozier on April 19, 1865. The focus of this eulogy is Lincoln's political accomplishments. Monaghan 467. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1862. 8vo. [29] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. Contemporary newspaper clipping discussing the owrk tipped-in. Previous owner’s signature. Wrappers lightly soiled. First edition. An argument against Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation. Monaghan 128 (variant). More
New York: Francis D. Tandy, [1906]. 8vo. [ii], 143-380 pp. FIRST EDITION. Tipped in before the title is a 3-page Want List containing books and pamphlets relating to Lincoln wanted by Judd Stewart and dated July 1, 1916. Engraved frontispiece of Lincoln. Publisher’s cloth, a bit rubbed, bottom of spine... More
Boston: B.B. Russell, 1865. 8vo. [24] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, rubbed scuffed and soiled; tiny chips to final blank, otherwise very good. First edition. Phoebe Ann (Coffin) Hanaford (1829-1921) was an American Universalist minister, the first woman ordained (1868) in New England. She was the author of fiction... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], [1899]. 8vo. 34 pp. FIRST EDITION. Bound in half morocco and marbled boards; light creasing and soiling. Judd Stewart's copy with his bookplate. Very good. First edition of this inspirational address. Monaghan 1254. More
[Chicago]: [Morris Briggs], [1926]. 8vo. [11] pp., printed on rectos only. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original stiff paper wrappers. First separate edition, #1/25 copies printed. The recollections of a boy who grew up in Springfield, originally printed in Century Magazine. Though this book has neither publishing information nor imprint, Monaghan suggests... More
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Eight volumes. 8vo. Illustrated with plates on Japanese vellum. Blue cloth with gilt vignette of Lincoln on front cover and spine titled in gilt, spines sunned; ex-libris. Federal edition, Number 253 of 1000 sets. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Monaghan, 1466. More
New York: Isaac Markens, 1913. 8vo. 26 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed heavy wrappers with red string tie, wrappers soiled with a couple tiny tears. First edition, number 100 of 100 inscribed by Markens. A complete review of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its delivery. Monaghan, 2096. More
New York: Privately Printed, 1916. 8vo. Original boards, head of spine chipped; ex-libris, with the usual markings, previous owner's signature. Foreword by Meserve. Facsimile of letter. Includes a photograph of Lincoln and one of Ellsworth printed from the original negatives in Meserve's collection. First edition, with a foreword by Meserve... More
Springfield, IL: [Privately Printed], 1872. 8vo. [ii], 205 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln and 11 text illustrations. Complete with the fold-out map. Blue cloth with blind-ruled boards, very lightly rubbed. Generally a fresh and bright copy inscribed in the year of publication to Newton Bateman, a well known... More
Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock, 1865. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, top fore-edge corner bumped, front wrapper splitting at joint. Newspaper obituary of author tipped-in, causing some offsetting. First edition of this eulogy delivered in the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois, on Sunday, April 23, 1865. According to the obituary... More
