Abraham

Robert Rossen director; Abraham Polonsky screenwriter; John Garfield Lilli Palmer Hazel Brooks Anne Revere starringABAA

Body and Soul Original photograph from the set of the 1947 film

1947145154Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1947. Vintage linen backed keybook photograph of cinematographer James Wong Howe actress Lilli Palmer and members of the crew on the set of the 1947 film noir. Holograph annotations on the verso. Considered by many to be amongst the best boxing films of all time as well as one of the great 1940s noirs. "Body and Soul" tells the story of a man who became a successful boxer to support himself and his mother after his father is killed but who realizes that he has slowly lost his integrity somewhere along the way. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two others. Shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown books

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SOCIALISTS CAHAN AbrahamABAA

Bleter fun Mayn Leben. Vol 1: in der alter heym Inscribed copy

192635002Nyu York New York: Forverts" Asosieyshon 1926. First Edition. Octavo 22cm. Gilt-decorated russia over boards; 515pp; 16 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones. Generically inscribed "With Compliments" by Cahan on front endpaper. Bit of erosion to spine ends and board exteremities; still a tight VG or better copy. First volume of Cahan's autobiography which appeared in five volumes between 1926 and 1931. Uncommon signed copy of Cahan's monumental autobiography this initial volume chronicling his childhood and young adulthood in Lithuania up to his arrival in New York in 1882. Cahan 1860-1951 was unquestionably the most influential Jewish-American intellectual of his time reaching through his editorship of The Jewish Daily Forward a daily audience of millions of Yiddish-speaking readers and establishing that paper's reputation as one of the leading voices of socialism in the United States. Forverts" Asosieyshon unknown books

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Cahan AbrahamABAA

Bleter fun mayn leben בלעטער פון מיין לעבע

1931233868New York: Forverts 1931. Five-volume autobiographical work in Yiddish by the Jewish socialist and longtime editor of the Forward. Two volumes have internal rubberstamps of a Yiddish club with the author's initial on the spine as if for shelving in the club's library; another volume has a private ownership stamp two others are unmarked. Forverts unknown books

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Chapman AbrahamABAA

Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature

19682309637Mentor 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Front wrapper creased wrappers rubbed ink stamp on front wrapper verso pencil name on blurb page. 1968 Mass Market Paperback. 718 pp. Fiction poetry autobiography and criticism reflecting a potent force in American writing today. Authors include: Richard Wright James Baldwin Malcolm X LeRoi Jones Langston Hughes Ralph Ellison Arna Bontemps W.E.B. DuBois Gwendolyn Brooks Margaret Walker. Mentor paperback books

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Hayward Abraham.ABAA

Biographical and Critical Essays. Reprinted from Reviews with Additions and Corrections.

18583208bdLondon: Longman Brown Green Longmans and Roberts 1858. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo bound by Thomas Beet of Conduit Street in full tree calf calf labels gilt-decorated spines marbled edges 451 pp 436 pp. Very Good; front joint of Volume I a bit tender light shelf wear. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First Edition. unknown books

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Trumper Max and Abraham CantarowABAA

BIOCHEMISTRY In INTERNAL MEDICINE

19323396Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders 1932. 1st edition. Green cloth binding. Overall VG section of spotting/dampstain to lower edge of rear board. 454 pp. 8vo. W. B. Saunders hardcover books

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West Benjamin: Panther AbrahamABAA

BICKERSTAFF'S ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1788. BEING BISSEXTILE OR LEAP YEAR AND TWELFTH OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

1787WRCAM51205Norwich 1787. 24pp. Dbd. Minor toning light foxing. Very good. In a blue cloth clamshell case gilt leather label. A rare and important Bickerstaff's almanac containing the first printing of the famous Abraham Panther Indian captivity. Titled "A Surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1787 and after making her escape she retired to a lonely Cave where she lived nine years" the captivity narrative covers pages 19-24 of the almanac. The captivity account was found to be fictional but was nonetheless popular and reprinted more than twenty times between this first appearance and 1814. Rare with only three copies reported in ESTC. EVANS 20875. DRAKE 416. TRUMBULL 1846. VAIL 767. SABIN 93891. AYER SUPPLEMENT 13. JONES CHECKLIST 608. ESTC W25617. hardcover books

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Yaari AbrahamABAA

Bibliography of the Passover Haggadah From the Earliest Printed Edition to 1960 with Twenty Five Reproductions from Rare Editions and a Facsimile of a Unique Copy of the First Printed Haggadah in the Jewish National and University Library Jerusalem

1960215156Jerusalem: Bamberger & Wahrman 1960. First edition. Double column text. xi English xx Hebrew 208 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with loss on back panel. First edition. Double column text. xi English xx Hebrew 208 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bamberger & Wahrman unknown books

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T'homi AbrahamABAA

Between Darkness & Dawn: A Saga of the Hehaultz

198623621NY: Bloch Publishing 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. 257pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Bloch Publishing hardcover books

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Davidson Abraham A.ABAA

Ben Solowey

1988151634Lambertville New Jersey: Optique Gallery Press 1988. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. First page of one copy carries lavish signature of architect-former owner; gutter twixt pp. 12 & 13 is slightly soiled from a bookmark once left behind; otherwise clean. Other copy is clean and tight with some minor shelf wear to dj. Gray cloth bright blue & color illus. dust jacket 58 pp. 28 color plates 20 BW illus. Considers the life and work of Polish-born American artist Ben Solowey 1900-1978. Consists mostly of an illustrated text by Abraham A. Davidson. Includes a bibliography and more than 40 examples of the artist's work. A nice introduction to this artist. Optique Gallery Press hardcover books

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Wallace Lew; Niblo Fred; Erlanger Abraham L.; Dillingham Charles B.; Ziegfeld Florenz Jr. ; Mathis June; Wilson Carey; HABAA

Ben Hur

19262310964New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1926. Large Softcover. Near Fine. Minor general wear. 1926 Large Softcover. 18 pp. The story of the film adaptation of Wallace's classic tale of a man who must become a gladiator to save his soul. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production. Directed by Fred Niblo. A short history of this mighty production with many scenes from the photodrama and with portraits of the characters. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paperback books

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Karp Abraham J.ABAA

Beginnings; Early American Judaica

1975025074Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1975. xi 67p. original stiff wrappers. Plus ten facsimile reprints in stiff wrappers of early American Judaica from 1761 until 1845. Total of 11 volumes in the original publisher's slipcase. Contents of the ten facsimiles: v. 1 Evening service or Roshashanah and Kippur or the beginning of the year and the day of atonement 1961. v. 2 A sermon preached at the synagogue in Newport Rhode-Island called "The Salvation of Israel".by Haijim Isaac Karigal 1773. v. 3 Discourse delivered in the synagogue in New-York on the ninth of May 1798.by G. Seixas 1797. v. 4 An oration delivered before the Hebrew Orphan Society on the 15th day of October 1806 by Myer Moses 1807. v. 5 Governor Worthington's speech on the Maryland Test Act 1824. v. 6 Service for the two first nights of the Passover in Hebrew and English 1837. v. 7 Persecution of the Jews in the East 1840. v. 8 The Occident and American Jewish advocate; a monthly periodical April 1843. v. 9 The teachers' and parents' assistant; or thirteen lessons.by an American Jewiss Rebecca Gratz 1845. v. 10 Discourse on the restoration of the Jews.by M. M. Noah 1845. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books

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Jackson Abraham Willard RevABAA

Barbariana: or scenery climate soils and social conditions of Santa Barbara City and County California

188853558San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co 1888. First edition 8vo pp. 48; original printed salmon wrappers; red ink mark on p. 21 and bleeding onto p. 20; all else near fine. Rocq 13510. C. A. Murdock & Co unknown books

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North Africa Ortelius AbrahamABAA

Barbariae et Biledulgerid Nova Descriptio. Double-page map of North African region of Libya and the Sahara desert colored by a later hand

159040297N.p. 1590. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Imperfectly colored along crease down center small and unobtrusive dampstain in one corner. Still a nice piece. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Abraham Ortelius 1527-98 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addendums was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Frans Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. Although this simply isn't true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did complement Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he had put into the Theatrum. unknown books

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Terrence McNally playwright; Robert Drivas director; F. Murray Abraham Emory Bass Paul Benedict Cynthia Harris starringABAA

Bad Habits Original script for the 1974 play

1974147951N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5 1974 for 177 performances closing on October 5 1974. Annotations in holograph pencil on title page and on cast page for "Ravenswood" the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits" listing names adjacent to the characters. Two one act comedies the first is "Ravenswood" set in a sanitarium catering to rich "unglued" patients in which Dr. Pepper treats his patients by encouraging them to indulge in bad habits. The second is "Dunelawn" also a sanitarium where Dr. Toynbee treats his patients with a magical drug which inhibits any "urges." Blue Studio Duplicating Service vinyl titled wrappers with credits for playwright Terrence McNally. Title page present with credits for playwright Terrence McNally. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books

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JACKSON Abraham Valentine WilliamsABAA

AVESTA READER FIRST SERIES EASIER TEXTS NOTES AND VOCABULARY

1893831041893. JACKSON Abraham Valentine Williams. AVESTA READER FIRST SERIES EASIER TEXTS NOTES AND VOCABULARY. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer 1893. 112 pp. 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. 8vo. brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Marbled edges. Boards lightly rubbed moderate shelfwear. Endpapers and text age toned. Front flyleaf detached laid in. Indo-Iranian texts followed by line-by-line annotated translation. Considered the seminal work on the subject. unknown books

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Mark Robson director; Abraham Polonsky screenwriter; Colin Forbes novel; Lee Marvin Robert Shaw Linda Evans Maximilian SchellABAA

Avalanche Express Original screenplay for the 1979 film

1977146208N.p.: N.p. 1977. Fourth Draft script for the 1977 film. With a single holograph ink notation to the front wrapper's right top corner. Based on the 1977 novel by Colin Forbes about a defecting Russian general who collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making "Avalanche Express" a final film for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. Tan titled wrappers noted as FOURTH DRAFT on the front wrapper dated December 30 1977 with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. Title page present dated December 30 1977 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with tearing to the front wrapper binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books

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BANCKER Abraham 1760 1832ABAA

Autographed Document Signed on Vellum

1787245126Albany 1787. unbound. An endorsement to an arrest warrant for the confiscation of goods belonging to Samuel Barrow -- 1 page 11.5 x 10 inches with endorsement on verso Albany New York August 5 1787 -- ordered by Revolutionary War patriot and then-Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court Richard Morris in very small part: "The people of New York - To The Sheriff of the County of Richmond - Greeting. We command you that of the Goods and Chattels Land and Tenements of the aforesaid Samuel Barrow in your Bailiwick being Debt in the sum of four-hundred and eighty pounds.for damages.have you whole monies before us at our City of Albany.Richard Morris Chief Justice." Bancker has placed his endorsement on the verso: "The within Saml. Barrows hasth Goods or Chattels in my Bailiwick whereof the Debt and damages or any part thereof can be made." It should be noted that the entire document is in the hand of and signed by: John McKesson 1734 - 1798 an Anti-Federalist New York Attorney and staunch Revolutionary War patriot who was appointed to the Provincial Convention 1775 all four Provincial Congresses 1775 - 1777 and to the First and Second Councils of Safety. He also served as clerk of the State Assembly and to the Ratifying Convention 1788 of which he is said to have participated in the hostile negotiations which eventually led to New York finally ratifying the U.S. Constitution. This document is in very good condition with heavy natural folds and coincidentally was signed by Bancker and McKesson on the very day August 5 1787 that the first draft of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights was completed. American patriot and major in the American Revolution who as a representative of Richmond County Staten Island cast an important vote in the ratification of the United States Constitution by the state of New York. The final vote was 30 to 27 and the failure to ratify might may have brought down the fledgling nation. Soon after the Revolutionary War Bancker was appointed Sheriff of the County of Richmond. unknown books

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AZERBAIJAN. Priest Abraham ie. Qasha Auraham. i. e.ABAA

Autograph letter signed Priest Abraham evidently sent to Amherst professor William Seymour Tyler.

183719688Ooroomiah Urmia West Azerbaijan Iran March 3rd 1837. 3.5 pages in autograph ink in English on an unlined foolscap folio 13.75 x 8.75 inches approx. 850 words no cover. Docketed in autograph ink "Letter from Priest Abraham to Prof. Tyler March 2 1837. "Permit me to inform you that the year Mr. Perkins came to the county of Persia to the city of Tabreez; Mr. Perkins and Mr. Haas a German Preacher came to the country of Ooroomiah- first to Gavalan the village of Mar Yanna i.e Mar Yohanna who accompanied them to the city of Ooroomiah. They remained in the city a few days and then came to my village- viz. Geog Tapa which is four miles distant from the city and we accompanied them to Tabreez. There we read your language the English and Mr. Perkins read our language the Syriac about eight months. Then the Plague entered Tabreez and Mar Yohana and myself took leave of Mr. Perkins and returned to Ooroomiah. After about five months Mr. Perkins came again to Ooroomiah also Mrs. Perkins and Dr. Grant and Mrs. Grant." A lengthy letter in English from one of the earliest Nestorian Christians to assist the American mission to Persia launched in November 1835 by the arrival in Urmia of "the Apostle to the Persians" Justin Perkins 1805-1869 with his wife Charlotte Bass Perkins missionary physician Asahel Grant 1807-1844 and Grant's wife Judith Campbell Grant. Qasha Auraham this the Syriac rendering of Priest Abraham was a native of the village of Georgtapa just to the southeast of Urmia the nephew to village elder Muqdasi Mormezd who had suggested Auraham as the suitable local assistant for the missionary team; along with Mar Yohannon Auraham was instrumental in teaching the missionaries modern Syriac and in creating written vernacular Syriac. The goal of the American Board of Missions with the Perkins mission had been the revival of the Assyrian Church of the East rather than planting an independent Protestant church and Perkins worked with Auraham and other local scholars to create a written modern Syriac in order to translate Nestorian religious texts out of ancient Syriac into the vernacular. Linguistics in that period was something of a rugged pursuit in Azerbaijan and Auraham was instrumental in recruiting a noted scholar to the translation mission as later reported by Perkins in Nestorian Biography: "A few months after the missionaries arrived at Oroomiah Mr. Perkins sent priest Abraham of Geog Tapa and a Nestorian deacon to the mountains to obtain from thence an ecclesiastic to assist him in reducing the modern Syriac to writing and in the translation of the Scriptures. . . . There was real advantage in uniting the labors of a translator from the mountains with one on the Plain to harmonize so far as practicable the different dialects in the first reduction of the language to a written form. The messengers were charged to obtain 'the most learned' priest they could find. They boldly set off on footâ€”entered the formidable mountains and penetrated as far as Marbeshoo a large village in a secluded glen forty miles west of the Plain of Oroomiah. It was a fearful journey at that period. . . . At Marbeshoo they found priest Dunkha who had come down to that place from his more distant home on business. His fame as a very learned man was already known to the messengers and they at once engaged him to return with them to Oroomiah. A week after they left the missionary they introduced to his study priest Dunkha who though grotesquely clad in wild Koordish costume struck him as a very pleasant man." The collaboration with Dunkha is alluded to here by Auraham: "I would also inform you that we four viz. Mar Yohanna -- myself -- Joseph a brother of Mar Yohannan -- and little John the son of my uncle study your language. And Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins and Mr. Grant and Mrs. Grant study our language the Syriac. We learn your language by little and little but Mr. Perkins learns our language very well. And I would further inform you that Mr. Perkins and Priest M'dunka i.e. Qasha Dunkha and myself are translating the Old and New Testament from the Syriac language into our dialect. Of the Old Testament we have translated the first book which as you know gives an account of the creation and three chapters of the second book. And of the New Testament we have translated the first fifteen chapters. If God smile upon us we shall be and by finish complete this good work." Since the first mission press would not be operational in Urmia until the arrival of printer Edward Breath in 1840 this earliest translation of the New Testament from the Peshitta rather than the Greek would not be published until 1846. Professor William S. Tyler of Amherst seems the likeliest recipient of this missive given that he had both been a friend and fellow-student of Perkins at Andover Theological Seminary and had taught with Perkins at the Amherst Academy; presumably this firsthand account from Auraham was meant both as English practice andâ€”with its mixture of exotic romance and good works to drum up for support for the mission among kindred scholars in America. Some short closed tears along old folds but no loss; some light toning a little old creasing; in very good condition quite legible. With a preliminary typescript. References: American Sunday-School Union. The Nestorians of Persia: a history of the origin and progress of that people and of missionary labours among them. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1848. Campbell William S. editor. A Memoir of Mrs. Judith S. Grant Late Missionary to Persia. New York: J. Winchester 1844. Murre-van den Berg H. L. "The Missionaries' Assistants: The Role of Assyrians in the Development of Written Urmia Aramaic." Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. Volume X issue 2. October 1996. Perkins Justin and Fidelia Fiske. Nestorian biography: being sketches of pious Nestorians who have died at Oroomiah Persia. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1857. Tyler Cornelius ed. Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler D. D. LL. D. n. p.: Privately Printed 1912. See also the Missionary Herald December 1840 inter alia for extracts from Perkins' journal in Urmia and his accounts of both Priest Abraham and of Priest Dunka. books

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Cooper AbrahamABAA

Autograph Letter Signed ALS by Abraham Cooper R.A. 1787-1868.

1832004264United Kingdom: Not published 1832. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Painter of Horses. Stampless cover dated April 19th 1832; one page letter to Henry Graves 1806-1892 leading London printseller saying that he has "tried to procure you a ticket for Private View at the RA without success" but he may see many more members "on the varnishing days" suggesting Sir Edwin Landseer 1802-1873 "he being on the Council has 4. I have but 2 tickets" ending "Yrs truly in haste". One-side 8vo leaf with conjugate address leaf postmarked Lamb's Conduit Street. Corner of address stuck under seal. Cooper was groom to Sir Henry Meux and in 1809 unable to afford a portrait of the horse "Frolic" to which he was greatly attached bought an introduction to painting in oils. His master bought the resulting canvas and Cooper never looked back. Henry Graves was at that time in partnership with F.G. Moon and Thomas Boys. He engraved all the most famous pictures of his day paying Landseer a total of pounds sterling 50000 for copyrights alone and 20000 to the owner of Frith's "A Railway Station" for the painting the engraved plate and the list of subscribers. Not published Paperback books

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LINCOLN AbrahamABAA

Autograph Letter Signed

18636046021863. "A. Lincoln" in black ink on Executive Mansion Washington letterhead March 18 1863. 5" x 8" 1 page with integral leaf. Very good. Integral blank with an autograph endorsement signed by Holt and clerical endorsement from the Adjutant General's office. To Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt: Lincoln requests his Judge Advocate General to investigate the "Strong Mitigating Circumstances" surrounding the court-martial of a member of the West Point Class of 1861. "It is said Lieut. John Benson Williams of the 3rd regular infantry as been sentenced by a Military Commission to be dismissed the service. I have some reason to believe there are strong mitigating circumstances in his case which the Commission perhaps did not deem competent for them to consider I will thank you to procure the record examine it and report it to me. . ." Holt forwarded Lincoln's letter to the Adjutant General noting that "No record or report in regard to the Williams case has been received at this office." The letter was returned to Holt accompanied by the record of William's court-martial and docketed "Please see papers within." After studying the record Holt made a lengthy report to Secretary of War Stanton March 30 1863 which survives in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Holt dismissed the "mitigating circumstances" referenced by Lincoln - Williams's supposedly "severe sickness" - and concluded that "It is evident that Lieut. Williams left his command on the battlefield and returned to Washington without leave and in known violation of orders and of his duty. . . .He has shown himself disqualified for the profession of arms." On April 8th Stanton in turn forwarded Holt's deposition to the President "as requested by his note on the 18th Ulto" that is the present letter. Lincoln ended the matter with his own terse endorsement on April 11th: "I decline to interfere in Behalf of Lieut. Williams" Basler 4:169. Although referred to in Basler's note regarding Lincoln's endorsement the present letter does not appear in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books

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LINCOLN ABRAHAM BLISS ALEXANDER and KENNEDY JOHN P. Editors.ABAA

Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors.

1864D16155Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. First Edition. First and only edition extra-illustrated with approximately 65 inserted portraits. Full red pebbled morocco gilt dated 1882 on the spine rebacked with the original spine laid down the covers panelled in gilt the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with the initials "W.H.W." at the foot. 10 x 8 inches 25.5 x 21 cm; with lithographed title and approximately 65 mostly engraved or lithographed portraits inserted three are original drawings including one of Julia Ward Howe xi lithographed contents 200 pp. lithographed fascsimiles of the handwriting of the authors. Intermittent foxing the inserted portraits have offset to the text leaves opposite rebacked as noted and lightly rubbed. This volume produced at the time of the 1864 Baltimore Sanitary Fair contains what is considered the first reproduction of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand. The facsimile was made from what is now known as the "Bliss Copy" of the address the fifth and final manuscript copy of the address that Lincoln executed at the request of the editors of this volume. Other authors represented here include Emerson Poe Melville Hawthorne and many other notables of the period. Cushings & Bailey unknown books

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LINCOLN AbrahamABAA

Autograph Endorsement 22 words Signed

18636046011863. "A. Lincoln" in black ink Washington DC May 12 1863 being 7 lines on the verso of the second leaf of an autograph letter to Lincoln from Robert Chester Buffalo May 9 1863 2 pages; 7 7/8" x 12 3/4" on a bifolium of blue-ruled paper neatly reinforced at folds. Lincoln deals with an officer seeking "An Honorable Discharge & to Avoid a Dishonorable One." Robert Chester who identifies himself as "late Capt. 17th Infantry US Army" petitions the President: "I would most respectfully request a suspension of Special Orders No. 201 Extract 4 by which I am dismissed the service of the United States. The reasons for such request are that my case has not been properly submitted to Your Excellency. I would respectfully ask that the order my be suspended until a Court of Inquiry or Court Martial; can be convened when I may have the opportunity to defend myself." Chester's appeal is joined by ten other prominent citizens of Buffalo including her postmaster one the justices of the city's Superior Court and three Union officers hailing from the Bison City. Lincoln forwarded Chester's petition to Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt directing him to "please examine & report on this case. The officer only seeks an honorable discharge & to avoid a dishonorable one." Nothing further on the case is recorded and Holt - influenced perhaps by the President's none-too-subtle insinuation - evidently found no merit to Chester's claim. See "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln" ed. Basler Supplement: 187. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books

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LINCOLN AbrahamABAA

Autograph Endoresment Signed "A. Lincoln"

1863601017in black ink as President Washington D.C. December 23 1863. Six lines plus signature and date on verso of the integral blank of an Autograph Letter Signed from General John M. Schofield Washington D.C. December 23 1863. Octavo. 2 pages. Fine fresh example dark and clean. In his letter Schofield addresses his commander in chief deferentially: "Mr. President I desire simply to ask you if I may be absent from Washington a few days pending the settlement of my affairs I wish to spend Christmas day with my relatives at West Point. If there is any reason for my remaining here of course I do not wish to go." On verso Lincoln writes: "Not the slightest objection to Gen. Schofield's visiting West Point so that he be in call by Telegraph." This letter serves as an interesting footnote to the long-simmering problem in Missouri where Schofield had been in command. A slave state Missouri had seethed with pro and anti-slavery conflicts and was terrorized by armed bands of southern sympathizers. Schofield and the provisional governor had engaged in bitter jurisdictional quarrels until all factions finally united to criticize Schofield for his "high-handed" administration and demand his removal. In early December 1863 a congressman who had visited Missouri told Lincoln first hand of Schofield's increasing difficulties prompting the President on December 11 to telegraph a simple order to Schofield: "Please come see me at once." After his White House interview Lincoln recommended that Schofield be promoted to major general transferred and Rosecrans appointed to take his place. Lincoln's recommendation was quickly approved by the Senate. Schofield 1831-1906 Graduated West Point 1853. In Missouri at the outbreak of the Civil War he became chief of staff to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon and served until Lyonâ€™s death at the battle of Wilson's Creek August 1861. Promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in November he was engaged in field operations in Missouri and later commanded the Department of the Missouri as major-general. Assuming command of XXIII Corps in February 1864 he took part in Sherman's Atlanta campaign as one of the three army commanders and badly shattered Hool's confederate force at the fierce battle of Franlklin Tenn. Moving the XXIII Corps to the mouth of the Cape Fear river He occupied Wilmington N.C. and effected a junction with Sherman at Goldsboro March 23 1865 for the final moves against Gen. J.E. Johnston. In the spring of 1868 served briefly as U.S. secretary of war. Promoted major-general regular army 1869 he commanded several departments successively and made the recommendations that led to the acquisition of Pearl Harbor Hawaii as a naval base. Superintendent at West Point 1876-81. Lincoln 1809-65 16th President of the United States 1861-65 and one of the most important figures in American history. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. unknown books

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