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 about Proclamation of Thanksgiving
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 about Appendix to Diplomatic Correspondence of 1865. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late...
[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 about Commemorative Proceedings of the Athenaeum Club on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. President of the...
[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 about The Peoria Debates and Lincoln's Power. A Broadside Published 1866 by Wm. H. Herndon
[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 about The Will of the People. No. 18
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 about "Lincoln literature." Offprint from Publishers' Weekly, February 25, 1928
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 about The assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The flight, pursuit, capture & punishment of the...
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 about The martyr president. A discourse, delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Penn Yan, N.Y....
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 about Abraham Lincoln: The Lessons Taught by his Life. and the Obligations Imposed by his Life. An...
[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 about Commemorative Proceedings of the Athenaeum Club on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. President of the...
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 about Ode on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
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 about Abraham Lincoln. A Universal Man
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 about Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States. Containing his Early History...
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 about The Nation's Loss. A Discource upon the Life, Services, and Death of Abraham Lincoln, Late...
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 about Executive Power
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 about Lincoln Bibliography. A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln
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 about Our Martyred President
[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 about Address Delivered by the Hon. A.B. Hunt on the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln. at the First...
[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 about Lincoln as a Boy Knew Him
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 about The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley. With an Introduction by...
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 about Lincoln's Masterpiece. A Review of the Gettysburg Address new in Treatment and Matter
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 about Lincoln's Ellsworth Letter
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 about Abraham Lincoln, his Great Funeral Cortege. from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois. With a...
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 about The People's Keepsake; or, Funeral Address on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. with the Principal...
New York: [Privately Printed], 1906. Folio. 70 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half brown morocco and cloth, with silk moire endpapers, some light rubbing to covers, otherwise an excellent uncut and unopened copy. First edition, one of fifteen large paper copies signed by Smith. Monaghan, 1517. More about A Priced Lincoln Bibliography
