Little Masterpieces: Abraham Lincoln by LINCOLN, Abraham - 1898

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1898. Hardcover. Edited by Bliss Perry. 24mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 167pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight, bright and nice first edition of this volume from the "Little Masterpieces" series. with spine gilt wonderfully fresh -- this volume subtitled "Early Speeches, Springfield Speech, Cooper Union Speech, Inaugural Addresses, Gettysburg Address, Selected Letters, Lincoln's Lost Speech." Front patedown bears large custom bookplate of well-known Maryland Lincoln collector Richard F. Turner, his 1953 ownership signature above it. MONAGHAN 1234.