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196621149NY: New Directions 1966. 1966. Very good. INSCRIBED TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN BY LINCOLN KIRSTEIN - Small quarto tan cloth titled in black in its original dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly creased & soiled with rubbing to the jacket's spine. viii 215 & 1 pages. The top edge of the book is foxed. Very good. <p>Inscribed to Leonard Bernstein: "for Lennie. with thanks and love. May 16. 1974. / This has a lot more than the version Wystan i.e. Auden liked / I would adapt to any meter or combination of vowels or syllables. / Hoping to work with you sometime! / Lincoln".<p>The first edition of this book--evidently the one that Auden read--was titled RHYMES OF A PFC. Drawing on Kirstein's experiences as an enlisted man in World War II it sold out immediately on publication. Rather than allowing the publisher to reprint the work as it stood Kirstein added many new poems to the retitled 1966 edition.<p>The remarkable inscription represents an eager appeal by one of the most important figures in the performing arts to work with the greatest talent in American music.<p>A powerful association. NY: New Directions, (1966). hardcover
1910ST17022London: Privately printed by the Chiswick Press for Beatrice Lowry and Her Friends Minneapolis 1910. ONE OF 100 COPIES according to Howes. 215 x 147 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 7/8". 31 1 pp. 1 leaf colophon. With a foreword by Mrs. Lowry. <br/> PLEASING EMERALD GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT IN AN ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE stamp-signed on rear turn-in upper cover framed by multiple rules entwined heart and trefoil tooling at corners gilt lettering accented with floral tool above and below the central panel which has three dots at each corner raised bands spine in gilt-ruled compartments gilt titling gilt-ruled turn-ins pale green endpapers top edge gilt. In contemporary green cloth drop-front box lined with felt. With a frontispiece portrait of Lowry. Howes L-541. Trivial offsetting to free endleaves from turn-ins a couple of tiny spots of foxing otherwise in nearly pristine condition with no signs of use inside or out.<br/> <br/> This is an exceptionally well-preserved copy of a work that was specially compiled printed and bound to honor the memory of both the author and the subject. Prominent Minneapolis attorney businessman and philanthropist Thomas Lowry 1843-1909 grew up in Illinois and Lincoln had assisted his father with several legal matters when he was practicing law. Young Lowry attended all of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and became a devoted admirer of the man who would go on to preserve the Union. After a successful career that included establishing the street car system in Minneapolis Lowry contracted tuberculosis and spent the last four years of his life as an invalid. With excess time on his hands he began writing down his memories of Lincoln in a "fragmentary manner" as Mrs. Lowry explains in the preface. After her husband's death Beatrice Goodrich Lowry 1854-1915 compiled these memories and some Lincoln letters in her husband's effects into the present volume which she had printed and bound to distribute to her husband's friends. Edmund Brooks a Minneapolis bookseller who specialized in fine bindings helped her to arrange for printing by the esteemed Chiswick Press and binding by the one of the most eminent English workshops of the day Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe met as boys attending Douglas Cockerell's bookbinding classes at the L. C. C. Central School. Cockerell was so impressed by their skill that he hired Sutcliffe as a finisher and Sangorski as a forwarder. In 1901 Francis and George went into business for themselves and before long they had become two of the most renowned English binders of the 20th century. Preserved over the years in its clamshell box our binding looks virtually the same as it did the day it left the bindery. Copies of this work do appear on the market but their condition is seldom as good as seen here. Privately printed [by the Chiswick Press] for Beatrice Lowry and Her Friends, Minneapolis unknown
183099804<p>Boston MA: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth 1830. 1830. Very good. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed self-wrappers. Once bound in with other similar pamphlets these three related items are unbound and removed with stab marks along the left edges. The pagination is a follows: pages 1-11 1 & 13-21 1-8; and 1-12. There is some scattered foxing throughout all three items. The cover page of the Senate No. 10 report dated December 15 1829 is darkened & stained with minor chipping to the bottom corners of that page and of the last page. Very good.</p><p>First edition Massachusetts Senate No. 21. The report is signed on page 11 by John W. Lincoln Chairman. The report is followed by the text of a bill entitled "An act to establish the Boston and Lowell Rail Road Corporation."</p><p>The Boston and Lowell Railroad was the first major railroad in the state of Massachusetts. The Boston and Lowell Railroad was preceded by the Middlesex Canal. Converting the canal to a railroad would eliminate the issue of transportation being unavailable during the winter when the canal froze. Patrick Tracy Jackson led the task of convincing the state legislature to fund the project. This proved difficult as the investors of the Middlesex Canal were against building a new form of transportation designed to replace their canal. The report at hand details the protest of the directors of the Middlesex Canal against granting the petition of John F. Loring and others to construct a railroad in its place. Loring and the other investors received their charter on June 5 1830 and the railroad began operations on June 24 1835.</p><p>The pamphlet is accompanied by an earlier February 12 1830 pamphlet titled:"To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled. : The president directors and company of the Middlesex Canal having seen the publication of the petition of John F. Loring and others for a rail road from Boston to Lowell and the order of notice thereon beg leave to present the following remonstrance to granting the prayer thereof." 12 pages. Signed page 12: Wm. Sullivan Josh. Coolidge Geo. Hallet committee of directors of Middlesex Canal to this purpose duly authorized. House No. 40 printed by Dutton and Wentworth 1830.</p><p>In addition an earlier pamphlet from 1829 is included: "Boston December 15 1829. To His Excellency Levi Lincoln Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : Sir On the behalf of the Commissioners of Internal Improvements I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of a survey made in conformity to a resolve of the legislature passed on the 12th day of June 1829 directing the Board to survey a route for a rail road from the town of Taunton to some point in the route previously surveyed between Boston and Providence : with great consideration and respect I am your humble and most obe't. serv't. Josiah J. Fiske chairman." 8 pages. Signed on page 8: Josiah J. Fiske Willard Phillips James Hayward Commissioners of the Board of Internal Improvements. Senate No. 10. Printed by Dutton and Wentworth.</p> [Boston, MA: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth], [1830]. paperback
18714New York: Currier & Ives n.y. 1865. Folio 11" X 13½". Good plus. Mild even age toning with occasional small foxing; roughly ¼" wide age toned strip mat burn running down full length of right margin about ½" from right edge but not affecting image area -- homely but not terribly defacing; bottom margin has clearly been trimmed coming up just beneath the "New York Published by Currier & Ives 152 Nassau St" line. Overall a clean fairly attractive example of this desireable Lincoln lithograph which is based on Anthony Berger's famed portrait taken in February 1864. unknown
193799018<p>New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1937. 1937. Very good. - Octavo 7-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover bound in blue cloth titled in white on the front cover and on the spine with a map of the journey on the front and rear endpapers. The covers are lightly bumped & slightly soiled and the spine darkened. viii 2 & 270 pages illustrated with a color frontispiece and profuse black & white drawings by the Greek artist Michail Doris. Very good.</p><p>First edition.</p><p>TOGETHER WITH: 2 copies of ELLINIKO TAXIDI a translation of the book into Greek by Athena Vlachou and Lina Vlachou in collaboration with Harry Mavrikidis. The books printed at the press of Christos Gertroudis with zinc engravings by Evangelos Chalkiopoulos are identical except for the bindings and the paper. One copy is bound in dark blue cloth titled in white on the front cover and on the spine. It has a vignette of Greek columns on the front cover and the spine is sunned faded. It is printed on ordinary paper and is inscribed to the MacVeaghs by the translator Lina Vlachou. The second copy is bound in cream buckram titled in dark blue on the front cover and on the spine. It also has a vignette of Greek columns on the front cover. It is printed on thicker paper and is 1-3/4 inches thick as opposed to the first copy which is 1 inch thick. It is inscribed to the MacVeaghs by the translator Athena Vlachou. There is some minor staining & foxing to the covers of this volume and staining to the presentation page. Both volumes have 281 pages and have the same color frontispiece and black & white drawings as the American edition. Both of the Greek editions have in addition a photographic portrait of the authors in traditional Greek dress.</p><p>The artist Michail Doris 1896-1987 was born Michail Papageorgiou in Dorida Greece. He studied art in Paris and returned to Athens in 1930. His work was influenced by Vlaminck and Dufy.</p><p>All three volumes are from the library of the authors Lincoln MacVeagh and his wife Margaret with their "Arcades Ambo" bookplate on the verso of the endpapers. Lincoln MacVeagh 1890-1972 a Renaissance man graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German French Spanish Latin Greek and Classical Greek. After World War I he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947 testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland the Union of South Africa Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value."</p> New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. hardcover
1956610794New York: Reporter Publications 1956. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. First edition. Quarto. 134pp. Ty Cobb cigarette card tipped in illustrations by Feliks Topolski including a lard fold out poster photographs and paintings by Thomas Eakins ten photographs by Harry Callahan. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers mildly soiled and toned short tears on spine ends else a very good copy. Containing Loren Eisley's Big Eyes and Small Eyes Ring Lardner Writes a Letter "The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley" Jan Juta To King Solomon's Mines "Lewis Carroll Writes to Some Young Friends" "Vater und Sohn" Larry Koller The American Gun Rudyard Kipling The Finest Story in the World "Mr. Lincoln Writes a Short Short Story" with a manuscript facsimile written in Abraham Lincoln's hand inserted and more. Scarce. Reporter Publications unknown
18902099Lincoln NE: Lincloln Real Estate Exchange 1890. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Good . 3 1/8 X 5 3/8 Inches. 12 PP. "The City of Lincoln - The Capital and Railroad Educational Political and Commercial Center of Nebraska"<br /> <br /> SCARCE original 1890 Lincoln Nebraska advertising brochure. Includes listing of population Railroads "Jobbing" and manufacturing centers Churches and Schools. The Real Estate market in Lincoln is addressed the last page contains the detailed list of businesses the city is in need of. These businesses include: Agricultural implements Beet sugar works Book and shoe factories Barbed wire factory Glue factory Carriage factories Stove foundries Glove and mitten factory Tannery and many more. Nice engravings of the Nebraska State Capital and the Lancaster County Court-House. The rear panel states "Compliments of The First National Bank." <br /> <br /> Original stapled wraps. A bit of toning to covers with a few smudges. Lower spine is quite worn rounded from maybe being stored in a pocket and/or wallet VERY SCARCE. OCLC LOCATES "0" COPIES. We could not locate one for sale on the open market and/or a listing of a sale at auction. Lincloln Real Estate Exchange unknown
3-60132Cambridge BirdLife International 2001 in-4to cartonato editoriale con copertina illustrata a colori pp. XVI-1144 con centinaia di cartine di distribuzione disegni e fotografie nel testo. In stato di nuovo. unknown
1924570720New York: Thomas Seltzer 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. American edition. Octavo. Perfectbound in yapped edges. Unopened pages wrappers lightly soiled with small chips and tears along the yapped edges about very good. The second issue of this influential literary magazine published by Ford Madox Ford. This issue features poetry by HD and John J. Adams stories by Joseph Conrad and Lincoln Steffens and the second installment of Ford's "Some Do Not. Thomas Seltzer unknown
1924456324New York: Thomas Seltzer 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. American edition. Octavo. Perfectbound in yapped edges. Very good or better with unopened pages moderate wear to the yapped edges and some light toning. The second issue of this influential literary magazine published by Ford Madox Ford. This issue features poetry by HD and John J. Adams stories by Joseph Conrad and Lincoln Steffens and the second installment of Ford's "Some Do Not. Thomas Seltzer unknown
193398736circa 1933. 1933. Very good. - What is being offered here are the final hand-written manuscript together with a typed copy of a translation into English of the first 6 Satires of Juvenal. The manuscript is on 10-1/8 inch high by 8 inch wide lined sheets; the typed sheets are on 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheets. The translation is realized in 4-line stanzas quatrains of poetry in the ABCB rhyme scheme. The contents of both the hand-written manuscript and the typed copy are as follows: Book 1: Satire One 31 pages with 12 lines per page; Satire Two 30 pages with 12 lines per page except for the last page; Satire Three 56 pages with 12 lines per page except for the last page; Satire Four 28 pages with 12 lines per page except for the last page; Satire Five 31 pages with 12 lines per page. Book 2: Satire Six 123 pages with 12 lines per page except for the last page.<p>The famous Satire Six begins: "I'll not deny that Chastity/for many years remained/And was long seen upon the earth/in days when Saturn reigned. But that was when some chilly cave/provided hearth and home/For men and herds and household gods/beneath one gloomy dome. The mountain-wife who made her bed/of forest leaves and grasses/and skins of local animals/could not compare with lasses/Like Cynthia or Lesbia/whose grief-bereddened eyes/Lost all their native sparkle through/a sparrow's sad demise/But suckling mighty babes on milk/that she could well afford/Was often more unsightly than/her acorn-belching lord. For earth and sky were new and life/was different to folk/Who fatherless were formed from clay/or sprang from riven oak."<p>The sheets are housed in two cardboard cases with the title "JUVENAL" and MacVeagh's initials "L.Mac.V." written on the spines. The boxes in which the manuscript and typescript are housed are broken.The title page of the typed copy of "Satire 6" has a tear. Unique. <p>Robert Frost wrote to his friend Lincoln MacVeagh from Amherst on December 11 1933: "I have been over your Juvenal again by myself. I have consulted no one at all about it; and the conclusion I have arrived at is entirely my own. The translation and the versification are a good job. But they only confirm me in the indifference not to say dislike I have always felt for the subject matter of the original. I believe it gains in harshness said right out in English. You know me: I can stand sorrow better than evil."<p>Lincoln MacVeagh 1890-1972 a Renaissance man graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German French Spanish Latin Greek and Classical Greek. He served in the Atois St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns of World War I as an aide to the commanding general of the 80th Division and of the Ninth and Sixth Army Corps. He rose to the rank of Major. After the war he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947 testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland the Union of South Africa Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value." [circa 1933]. unknown
186324813Washington DC: War Department 1863. Paperback. 16mo. Self-cover. 35pp. Very good. Mild age toning; minor binding traces. Lengthy Court Martial proceeding against the U.S. Army Quartermaster at St. Louis Justus McKinstry 1814-97 who is charged with "prostituting his office" in these 61 specifications -- in 26 of which is he found "Guilty" with the recommendation "To be dismissed the service." Lincoln who signs in type at the conclusion supports this finding. Also signed in type by Adjutant General L. Thomas who dissolves the General Court Martial. War Department paperback
186010625Columbus OH: Follett Foster & Co 1860. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 406pp. illustrated plus advertisements. With half-title and original endpapers. A very good copy complete and unrestored in the publisher's brown cloth. Spine ends with shallow wear one scrunch to the cloth on the front board abrasions to corners and mild internal foxing. Still a nice sound copy with strong inner hinges. All three illustrations present as called for including an uncommonly dashing portrait of the 16th president. Preceded by two issues in wrappers both of which are extremely rare in commerce. Considered to be the first widely read modern campaign biography. This must be quite an early copy as there is no errata slip at p. 74 issued in later copies the error on p. 46 no "i" in "importance" on the last line is present and we even note another typographical error not mentioned in any other catalog description that we found with the last word "triumph" omitted by the printer supplied here in pencil by a contemporary owner. There is a period and colon after the "O" at the imprint though these almost appear to have been added later . Howes H-735. Follett, Foster & Co hardcover
24433Springfield: Daily Illinois State Register May 8 1865 Vol. 17 No. 104. Large folio. 4pp. Good plus. Mild age toning and sporatic foxing. Overall an attractive very displayable copy largely free of edge tears. Extensive coverage of the trial of Lincoln's assassins rumors about Jefferson Davis's possible implication General Joseph Johnston's farewell order other Civil War "wrap up" matters etc. Numerous interesting boilerplate advertisements. unknown
24428Springfield: Baker & Phillips April 26 1865 Vol. XVII No. 269. Large folio. 4pp. Black mourning borders. Very good. Minor soiling and minor wear along some original folds but no binding traces and remarkably few edge tears. Further news on the route of Lincoln's body en route to Springfield via a special funeral train plus more surrender details etc. An attractive copy. unknown
24427Springfield: Baker & Phillips April 25 1865 Vol. XVII No. 268. Large folio. 4pp. Black mourning borders. Very good. Minor soiling and minor wear along some original folds but no binding traces and remarkably few edge tears. Lincoln's body had just left Philadelphia en route to Springfield via a special funeral train when this issue appeared. Some other headlines: "Mosby Surrenders Conditionally on Johnston's Terms" "Lee's Paroled Soldiers Tearing up the Railroads" "Fall of Montgomery Confirmed" "Condition of Secretary Seward and Son." An attractive copy. unknown
24455New York: New-York Daily Tribune 21 April 1865 Vol. XXV No. 7501. Folio. 8pp. Very good. Quite mild age toning and bit of wear and light soiling along original folds; minor edge curling and very small edge tears. Black mourning borders. Lincoln assassination coverage dominates the front page news of this daily with the leftmost of the six columns featuring a bold for that day headline: "OUR LOSS. / A Day of Fasting and Prayer. / The president's Assassin. / Further Rewards Offered" and so on. Despite mild wear quite attractive and displayable. unknown
1865353589Springfield IL 1865. Broadside text in three columns mourning borders. Early manuscript note signed by Harriet Louise Greene in the upper margin "I was present at the funeral & saw the remains". 10-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Paper-backed at an early date with early newspaper clippings mounted on verso. Broadside text in three columns mourning borders. Early manuscript note signed by Harriet Louise Greene in the upper margin "I was present at the funeral & saw the remains". 10-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches. President Lincoln was assassinated on April 15 1865. His body lay in state in the White House on April 18 and a ceremonial funeral service took place in Washington D.C. around noon on April 19. Two days later President Lincoln's casket was loaded on a funeral train headed for Springfield Illinois stopping at Baltimore Harrisburg Philadelphia New York City Albany Buffalo Cleveland Columbus Indianapolis Michigan City and Chicago before arriving in Lincoln's adopted hometown early on the morning of May 3. <br /> <br /> Immediately upon arrival in Springfield Lincoln's coffin was transferred by hearse to Representatives' Hall inside the Illinois Old State Capitol. For the next twenty-four hours about 75000 mourners were allowed to pass by the open coffin of the slain president to pay last respects.<br /> <br /> According to the present broadside President Lincoln's funeral procession left the Old State Capitol "on Thursday the 4th Inst. at 10 o'clock a.m. precisely." The funeral party of over 10000 people then turned right on 7th Street to pass by the Lincoln family home and then right up Cook Street to proceed past the Governor's Mansion before heading north to Oak Ridge Cemetery.<br /> <br /> Surrounded by a heavy black band it lists all the persons and units involved their place in the procession and rules for the day. The entire procession was divided into eight divisions with Gen. Joseph Hooker acting as Marshal in Chief. The first three divisions were the military escort representing all the elements of the Army and Navy. After them came the attending clergy and Lincoln's attending physicians. Next was the casket itself the only wheeled vehicle in the procession with the pall bearers to each side followed by Lincoln's horse with reversed boots and then the immediate family. Next came government officials ambassadors and state officials followed by delegations from Springfield and other Illinois towns. Next were representatives of various organizations delegations from colleges lawyers doctors and the press. After this came Masons Odd Fellows and firemen. The final division was designated "Citizens at large. Colored Persons." Directions were given for the locations of each group forming up. Only marshals were allowed to be on horseback; all others walked. Bands were under the direction of the Committee on Music. Other particular directions complete the document.<br /> <br /> This broadside must have been widely distributed to assist the mourners but like all such ephemeral pieces few copies have survived. OCLC locates only six; at Indiana University the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Library the Boston Athenaeum the Chapin Library at Williams College the John Hay Library at Brown University and a copy formerly in the James S. Copley Library. There is also a copy at the Library of Congress. Two variants are recorded the other with a variant headline omitting "Order of" from title as well as a proof without the letters FUN of Funeral in the title. unknown
186524425New York: The New York Times 1865. Folio. 8pp. Black mourning borders. Very good. Slight age toning; inoffensive binding traces at left edge; small paper loss at bottom edge of last page. Lincoln had been dead one week when this issue Vol. XIV No. 4235 covering the search for the conspirators appeared. A handsome copy. The New York Times unknown
192474070Detroit: Lincoln Motor Company; A Division of Ford Motor Company 1924. First edition of this little swag book. It was not available for sale but when you bought a Lincoln you were given a copy. Small 12mo 6 x 4 inches. 29 1 pp. Publisher's decorative flexible blue fabricoid with gold title panel to front cover. Excellent.This particular copy was given out by the Walter H. Murphy Motors Company on Hope St. in Los Angeles so stamped on the title page; all copies should bear a similar stamp. An attractive little booklet. On each recto is a verse from the poem and each opposing verso has a different model of Lincoln shown and each car is surrounded by a lovely drawing of the Lincoln driving to various spots. Lincoln Motor Company; A Division of Ford Motor Company unknown
1868377927Jefferson City MO 1868. 2pp. printed recto and verso on a single quarto sheet. Old folds. 2pp. printed recto and verso on a single quarto sheet. Unrecorded handbill issued as a circular letter to the former Civil War officers of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry giving updates on each of their lives since the close of the war with some information on the founding of HBCU Lincoln University. Founded in 1866 the school had come about through the initiative of veterans of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantries many of whom having learned to read and write while in the army recognized the importance of creating educational opportunities for newly emancipated African Americans after the war. Founding secretary of the Lincoln Institute Richard Baxter Foster 1826-1901 who has signed this circular in print was a White abolitionist and former first lieutenant in the 62nd Infantry who would go on to serve as the Institute's first principal as well as its only instructor for the first two years. <br /> <br /> Foster notes under his own update that he was teaching at the Lincoln Institute: "The school still flourishes as well as possible with its present poor accomodations. I think we chall build a school house next season. We have invested a part of our funds in 365 acres of land mostly timbered three miles south from Jefferson City . Sergeant Major Jefferys is still attending my school. He taught three months in the summer. Many other soldiers of different regiments are in the school."<br /> Formerly enslaved John O. Jefferys d. 1922 was the highest ranking non-commissioned African American in the 62nd U.S.C.I.<br /> <br /> One of approximately 35 copies printed assuming that copies were printed for the 35 named officers in the circular and not many more. unknown
1871334508New York 1871. Unbound. Near Fine. Two printed tickets each with a mounted albumen photograph in cabinet card format 4.25 x 6.25 inches. The back side of each ticket has a faint printed design on white glazed paper. Both tickets are neatly trimmed along the right edge near fine with a few tiny perimeter tears and light toning. The first ticket from 1870 has a mounted albumen photograph of a painting by A.H. Ritchie of Lincoln with his cabinet reading the Emancipation Proclamation. The second ticket from 1871 has a mounted albumen photograph of a statue of Lincoln reading a newspaper with Grant and whom we believe is Gideon Wells. The Lincoln Union Social Club a pro-Republican party function held its first ball in New York City in 1870. These two ephemeral items tickets for the first and second balls are not to be confused with the invitations that preceded them. Of the two the tickets may be a rarer survival. We know of only one other copy of the 1870 ticket at the Library of Congress. unknown
a61746Fort Wayne 1931-1947. 590 issues of this newsleter. 4to. 1 page per issue each with 3 holes at left margin for binder many with reinforcements. A few pencil notes on some issues. Good to VG. 590 issues. Pictures available on request. . unknown
193622171Chicago:Black Cat Press 1936. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Chicago:The Black Cat Press. 1936. Limited edition of 140 copies. 98pp. In very good condition. Top pages edges are lightly soiled and the gilt on spine is faded with a touch of mottling to lower spine. Internally there are no previous owners marks or signatures. The pages are clean and bright. A very good copy. Chicago:Black Cat Press hardcover
1930SKU1016760Knickerbocker 1930-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. The Knickerbocker Press; New York 1930. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good green binding with gilt lettering to spine that shows rub marks bookplate to front pastedown binding a bit shaky and cocked light wear/rub marks to text block edges/fore-edge lightly sunned pages some handling wear rubbing to board corners/spine edges small abrasion to top front joint without Dust wrapper. A nice clean unmarked copy. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches 322pp. b&w illustrations errata and addenda attached to rear. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Knickerbocker hardcover
