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The Gettysburg Address
by Lincoln, Abraham; Thall, Peter Morgan; Fish, Beatrice Hatton
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good; Covers toned and soiled.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
New London, CT: The Thall Publishing Company. Very Good; Covers toned and soiled.. 1957. First Edition. Softcover. Words by Abraham Lincoln, musical arrangement by Peter Morgan Thall and Beatrice Hatton FishIllustrated stapled card covers. Inscribed by Thall on the front cover. A musical score for piano and vocals. The rear cover notes that Thall was just a high school freshman when this arrangement was first printed. WorldCat locates just one copy of this edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pages .
Synopsis
One of the most famous speeches ever given, the Gettysburg Address was delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. The entire text is just 275 words: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 Despite widely-circulated stories to the contrary, the president did not dash off a copy aboard a train to Gettysburg. There are five known copies of the speech in Lincoln's handwriting, each with a slightly different text, and named for the people who first received them: Nicolay, Hay, Everett, Bancroft, and Bliss. Two copies apparently were written before delivering the speech, one of which probably was the reading copy. The remaining ones were produced months later for soldier benefit events.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57655
- Title
- The Gettysburg Address
- Author
- Lincoln, Abraham; Thall, Peter Morgan; Fish, Beatrice Hatton
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; Covers toned and soiled.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Thall Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New London, CT
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Lincolniana, GETTYSBURG Address
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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