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185532141Boston: Davis & Farmer Printers 1855. 48pp top margins of first few leaves spotted. Stitched in original printed wrappers lightly foxed. Except as noted Very Good.<br/><br/> The Infantry is named in honor of Revolutionary War Major General Benjamin Lincoln. This rare pamphlet prints its founding documents marching and arms instruction for the soldier and a manual of arms for sergeants.<br/>FIRST EDITION. OCLC 590599680 2- AAS NYHS as of June 2015. Davis & Farmer, Printers unknown books
12672Sixteenth President of the United States. Bust made from Lincoln's actual life mask which Lincoln himself described as "The animal Himself." Volk used the cast to use as a model for the Statue of Lincoln at the Illinois state Capital in Springfield. This cast has always been concidered by Sculptors and Artists as the most reliable document of Lincoln and far more valuable than photographs for it is the actual form. This bust started with the actual life cast mask of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1860. It has been sculpturaly enhanced by a sculpter. The Hair eye brows and beard have been added. The eyes have been sculpted open. Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural suit has been sculpted so you can see every stitch. The detail is what makes it come live. A beautiful piece in excellent condition. unknown books
191240499Westerville OH: Howard H. Russell & the Anti-Saloon League of America 1912. Buff paper printed in red and black ink. Modest wear to pledge light age-toning. Single sheet printed recto only. Small black and white image of Lincoln. Oblong format: 3-1/8" x 5-5/16" <br/><br/>Signed in pencil by Oneida Sherman on September 8 1912 copyright of card 1909. Howard H. Russell & the Anti-Saloon League of America unknown books
1977143667N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. <br/><br/>A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first screenwriting credit. <br/><br/>Black titled leatherette wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lincoln Kilpatrick and J.S. Cardone and story writers Lincoln Kilpatrick and Bill Nolan. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
191659722Cincinnati OH: Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1916. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. Margins illustrated with vignettes of African-Americans at work in field home and shop in church and in school. Songs readings and other activities to help celebrate a Lincoln Day and emancipation. Not in Work or Blockson catalogue. OCLC locates nine copies Lincoln Presidential Library Brown Cincinnati Historical Society Emory Frostburg State Grand Valley State New York Public Occidental Maine. Owner's name at head of front wrapper else very good. Original illustrated wrappers rubbed stapled. #6665. <br/><br/> Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church unknown books
188848756New York: Loomis National Library Association 1888. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Loomis National Library Association hardcover books
186847772Roxbury: L. B. Weston Printer 1868. Paperback. Very Good. 15p. Wrapper. 24cm. The Society raised $1963.25 in the period ending Oct. 7th 1868 and contributed to the support of six teachers in Gordonsville Richmond and Culpepper Va. Charleston S.C. and Salem Md. <br/><br/> L. B. Weston, Printer paperback books
186547771Boston: Crosby & Ainsworth 1865. Paperback. Very Good. 16p. Lacks separate wrapper. 23cm. The Society raised $2261.05 in the year ending Oct. 4 1865 and contributed to the support of four teachers in Charleston Newbern Norfolk and Richmond. <br/><br/> Crosby & Ainsworth paperback books
13236TWAIN MARK Clemens S. L. Lincoln Farm Association. LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION CERTIFICATE. n.p. n.d. printed in 1906; issued 1906-1909 Certificate 9 1/2 x 12 inches broadside. A handsome example. An appeal for funds to save Lincoln's birthplace had been sent out in 1906 signed in type by Twain and others. This certificate was sent to those who made donations in response to that initial appeal for funds. This handsome certificate has an engraving of Lincoln at top center the now familiar portrait that later appeared on the five dollar bill and contains the facsimile autographs of the original committee members: Mark Twain President Taft and more than a dozen others along with an bright orange seal affixed dated 1906 that uses the same profile of Lincoln that was later used on the Lincoln penny in 1909. In August 1905 Robert Collier Collier's Weekly purchased the Lincoln Farm. In April 1906 Collier Twain William Jennings Bryan Samuel Gompers William Howard Taft and others organized the Lincoln Farm Association. That same year they bought the Lincoln birthplace cabin from a New York businessman who had bought it in 1894 and taken it on tours of various cities. Their efforts raised more than $350000 to build a memorial in which to house the cabin. Teddy Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in 1909 and Taft dedicated the building in 1911. The site was made a national park in 1916 and the shrine is visited by thousands every year. We have handled several copies of this rare ephemera. cf. BAL 3495 recording the broadside appeal for funds but not this certificate. unknown books
15849LINCOLN Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Published by Columbus Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition third issue as identified by a number 2 on page 13 and publishers ad. Publisher's original olive green textured cloth with blind-stamped borders. Slight chipping to headband. Spine lettered in gilt. 268 pages.<br/><br/>As the Republican nominee for the Senate Lincoln delivered his famous convention speech declaring 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' He challenged his opponent Stephen Douglas to seven debates highlighting the inconsistency in favoring popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision. Lincoln further stressed the moral iniquity of slavery. Gilt and boards faded chipping to upper some damp stain minor foxing and toning as usual. Overall a good copy. Although Douglas won the election Lincoln's thoughtful and clear ideation enhanced his fame and led him to winning the Presidency in 1860. unknown books
1970144003Simi Valley: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. <br/><br/>An underground pool hall and poker club is the site of a potential swindle. Local poker sharks con men and politicians clash as the stakes grow and all parties suspect the others are telling lies and cheating. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lincoln Demyan. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 89. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1970144009N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. <br/><br/>Set in post WWII West Virginia where Stosh and his buddies gamble on billiards games. Stosh's father is interred at a sanitarium with a black man named Catfish a friend to Stosh. The young pool hustler gets involved with the law smuggling hooch and fighting friends. <br/><br/>Untitled green wrappers. Title page present undated noted as Registered: WGA with a credit for Demyan. 124 leaves. Last leaf of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine green velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1970138153Simi Valley CA: Self published 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. <br/><br/>Set in post WWII West Virginia where Stosh and his buddies gamble on billiards games. Stosh's father is interred at a sanitarium with a black man named Catfish a friend to Stosh. The young pool hustler gets involved with the law smuggling moonshine and fist-fights with his friends. <br/><br/>Untitled tan wrappers with a label for the Paul Kohner Agency on the front wrapper and the title page. Title page present undated noted as Registered: WGAw with a credit for Demyan. Last leaf of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine green velo binding. Self published unknown books
184850229Danville KY: Zimmerman printer - Tribune Office 1848. Broadside 12 x 9 5/8 inches employing several sizes and styles of type including several display types. Not in Hummel. Not recorded on OCLC. Folded; some browning but a nice example. <br/><br/> Zimmerman, printer - Tribune Office unknown books
196874948New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. Catalogue is soft-bound in gilt stamped tan covers. There is a bit of light soiling to the cover wrappers. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with color illustrations. Measures 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. 71 pages. . Automobile Quarterly, Inc. paperback books
191055375Springfield 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. portrait 24p. Limp red suede binding. 20cm. Outer text leaf browned with some chipping along edges. Booker T. Washington was the speaker at the banquet delivering an address titled "Some Results of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation." He was introduced by Charles S. Deneen Governor of Illinois. Half of this program consist of a lengthy poem "The Heroes of Time" by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. The last leaf was a blank leaf titled "Autographs." There are eleven autographs all but one in pencil on the final page. We did not identify any notables among the autographs. <br/><br/> hardcover books
186463146NP: np 1864. Broadside 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. printed in two columns. Some toning and scattered foxing and uneven edges with shallow chipping not affecting text. The platforms of the Union Democratic Party and the Republicans for what would become Lincoln's re-election. Some of the resolutions in his party's platform printed here: "That as Slavery was the cause and now constitutes the strength of this rebellion and as it must be always and everywhere hostile to the principles of republican government justice and the national safety demand its utter and complete extirpation from the soil of the republic; and that we uphold and the acts and proclamations by which the Government in its own defense has aimed a death-blow at this gigantic evil. We are in favor furthermore of such an amendment to the Constitution to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of Slavery within the jurisdiction of the United States.Resolved That the foreign immigration which in the past has added so much to the wealth and development of resources and increase of power to this nation the asylum of the oppressed of all nations should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy." OCLC lists 19 copies of this broadside. <br/><br/> np unknown books
186519332New York: Currier & Ives 1865. Fairly generous margins; some very light acid burn around the edges of the margins and to the verso; a couple of very shallow chips about a sixteenth of an inch to the edges; a very good copy. Lithograph uncolored 10.25 x 14 inches unmounted. A well-known image and of the earliest popular images of the assassination printed April 24--though perhaps bearing greater fidelity to the emotional truth of the scene over its historical details. Bland Currier & Ives 1890. Currier & Ives, unknown books
1865100185Montauk" Montauk Navy Yard Wash D.C. 34 1865. 4 pp. 8vo. Slight soiling and minor tears along old folds otherwise in very good condition. 4 pp. 8vo. The Surgeon of the 'Montauk' Gives an Eye-Witnesses Account. ".About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side ." A remarkably clear and dramatic eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln from a naval surgeon who was close to the President's box at Ford's theater on that fateful night of April 14 1865. In this letter to his brother written the night after the assassination while the details were still fresh in his memory Dr. George B. Todd surgeon aboard the U.S. "Montauk" at anchor in the Navy Yard that day recounts the terrible event with a clarity of observation one might expect of his profession - a rarity among confused eyewitness accounts. The text of Todd's letter - one of only 7 eyewitness accounts written within 24 hours of the assassination - reads: "The few hours that have intervened since that most terrible tragedy of last night have served to give me a little clearer brain and I believe I am now able to give you a clear account up to this hour. Yesterday about 3 P.M. the President and wife drove down to the navy yard and paid our ship a visit going all over her accompanied by us all. Both seemed very happy and so expressed themselves - glad that this war was over or so near its end and then drove back to the White House. In the evening nearly all of us went to the Ford's Theatre. I was very early and got a seat near the President's private box as we heard he was to be there. About half past nine he came in with his wife a Miss Harris and Major Rathburn and was cheered by every one. As soon as there was a silence the play went on and I could see that the "pres." seemed to enjoy it very much. About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side on which the 'pres.' box was and I heard a man say "there's Booth" and I turned my head to look at him. He was still walking very slow and was near the box door when he stopped took a card from his pocket wrote something on it and gave it to the usher who took it to the box. In a minute the door was opened and he walked in. No sooner had the door closed then I heard the report of a pistol and on the instant Booth jumped out of the box onto the stage holding in his hand a large knife and shouted so as to be heard all over the house - 'Sic Semper Tyrannis' "so always with tyrants" and fled behind the scenes-I attempted to get to the box but I could not and in an instant the cry was raised 'The President is Assassinated.' "Such a scene I never saw before. The cry spread to the street only to be met by another 'So is Mr. Seward.' Soldiers had gone. Some General handed me a note and bid me go to the nearest telegraph office and arouse the nation. I ran with all my speed and in ten minutes the sad news was all over the country. Today all the city is in mourning nearly every house being in black and I have not seen a smile. No business and many a strong man I have seen in tears. "Some reports say Booth is a prisoner others that he has made his escape but from orders received here I believe he is taken as a mob once raised now would know no end. I will not seal this until morning and I may have some more news. "April 24th. "I have had no time to write until now as I have been a detective. We have now 7 that are implicated. Why don't you write Love to all George" Several important facts regarding the movements of both the President and John Wilkes Booth are recorded here: 1 This appears to be the only eyewitness account of the President's inspection of the "Montauk" earlier that afternoon. 2 Todd's account of Booth's interaction with the "usher" sitting outside the President's box "took a card from his pocket wrote something on it and gave it to the usher" is especially intriguing and reveals not only something of Todd's powers of observations but also his proximity to the assassin immediately before the shooting. Todd alone among eyewitnesses notes that the "usher" first took the card from Booth then went into the box and that a short time later the door opened and Booth went in. In fact Good finds only 7 other eye-witness accounts of the Lincoln assassination as early as April 15 -- most of these witnesses record little or nothing regarding the events before hearing the shot itself and none of them noticed Booth's interchange with the usher who was in fact Lincoln's valet Charles Forbes. There are three other accounts by eyewitnesses which partially corroborate Todd's observation of the Forbes and Booth interchange -- but they were written much later than Todd's. 3 Todd's observation of the time he spotted Booth moving toward the box "about 10:25" corresponds to Good's own conclusion that Booth fired the fatal shot close to 10:30 PM. According to James Swanson MANHUNT p. 419 "the exact time of Booth's shot cannot be fixed . Booth may have shot Lincoln as early as 10:13 or as late as 10:30" Todd's account - again one of the freshest and most reliable weighs heavily in favor of Good. 4 Todd by his own account played a role in alerting the nation by telegraph. 5 Although he doesn't mention it as a surgeon of the ironclad Montauk Todd was also probably present at the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth on Thursday April 27 in the gun room of his ship. Indeed in an article in the February issue of the Baltimore and Ohio Magazine 1926 where the letter was first published and reproduced Todd is reported to have been "one of the surgeons who performed the autopsy." That as well as the fact that the other prisoners were being held on board the ironclad "Montauk" and "Saugus" may explain his cryptic remark near the end ". I have been a detective .". Todd actually mailed the letter on April 30 3 days after the autopsy and may very have participated in the actual investigation of the captives aboard the "Montauk." AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNIQUE RECORD OF ONE THE NATION'S GREAT TRAGEDIES. Published from a copy in the State Historical Library of Wisconsin in Timothy S. Good WE SAW LINCOLN SHOT U. of Miss. 1995; with the mistaken date of April 30 1865 unknown books
187329274Washington: Polkinhorn 1873. 3" x 5 3/4" mounted on the top margin of the blank verso on old card stock. Light wear Good or so. Polkinhorn unknown books
18389774New York: John F Trow 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf/edge wear sunning at spine dampstain marks on front board evidence of a lifted book plate at front pastedown small closed tear at ffep light foxing at endpages loss at the top of rfep likely an owner name removal else tight bright and unmarred. Green textured cloth binding frontispiece. 12mo. 158pp plus advert. Illus. b/w plate. <br/><br/>On November 7 1837 Elijah Parish Lovejoy borning in Albion Maine was killed by a pro-slavery mob while defending the site of his press The Saint Louis Observer renowned for producing abolitionist tracts. For many Lovejoy was a martyr to the cause of free speech. His death deeply affected many Northerners and greatly strengthened the abolitionist anti-slavery cause and effectively proved that slavery posed a danger to the liberties of all Americans. Emerson was appalled by the incident and in response delivered an address in Concord focusing on the necessity of preserving free speech.the address does not survive in finished form. OCLC locates 11 copies. Howes L-348; Sabin 41268; Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 12163 John F Trow hardcover books
183857334NY: John F Trow 1838. First Edition. 12mo. iv 5-158 pp. Lithographed frontispiece. Final leaf is a publisher's advertisement. Bound in rubbed later 3/4 calf library pocket on rear end paper. Toning to the title page a very good copy. OCLC locates 11 copies in U.S. law schools. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 12163. In 1837 a mob destroyed a printing establishment in Alton Illinois that produced abolitionist tracts. Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed while trying to defend his press. For many Lovejoy was a martyr to the cause of free speech. Abolitionists said this event proved that slavery posed a danger to the liberties of all Americans. An important freedom of the press trial. John F Trow unknown books
182634982Worcester: Printed for the publishers by Rodgers and Griffin 1826. First edition. Three quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines scuffed one with black tape covering old call number ends worn hinges in one volume split at front index a few leaves with chips tears or creases occasional foxing library plate with discard stamp on versos of title pages remnants of stickers on rear blanks still overall about very good. vii 384 pp.; 2 314 pp. 8vo. All published. "Besides miscellaneous articles the publication contained historical contributions relating to the United States and particularly to Worcester County. These included articles by the members of the Worcester Historical Society" Sabin. "In the autumn of 1825 Mr. Baldwin became an editor and proprietor of the Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal. This work issued in monthly numbers was intended to collect and preserve facts tending to illustrate the origin progress and condition of the institutions exhibit the resources physical political and social advantages of the County of Worcester and present a full and accurate account of each town within its territorial limits. It was continued during a year forming two octavo volumes and was then suspended for want of patronage" An Account of the American Antiquarian Society p.7. Sabin 105433. Printed for the publishers, by Rodgers and Griffin hardcover books
182855192Worcester: publisher not identified 1828. First edition 18mo pp. 18; original brown printed wrappers; Nebraska State Historical Society stamp on upper wrapper and title page; all else very good. Includes a list of counsellors and attorneys practicing in the county of Worcester September 1828. American Imprints 37247. <br/><br/> publisher not identified unknown books
18372307093Worcester: Moses D. Phillips and Company 1837. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Front and rear boards nearly detached but still holding bookplate on front paste-down endpaper second blank loose but included some pages foxed. 1837 Hard Cover. viii 383 pp. A history of Worcester Massachusetts. Moses D. Phillips and Company hardcover books
