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Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Signed First Edition)
by Rankin, Henry B.; Newton, Joseph Fort (Introduction by);
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WILLIAMSBURG, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916.
FIRST EDITION.
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON BLANK PAGE.
Original cloth, lettered in gilt.
Illustrated with portraits.
Top edge gilt.
412 pages + ads.
Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; bookplate of Edmund S. Meany - prominent history professor and Lincoln scholar - on front endpaper; another bookplate of David Leroy - a Lincoln expert - on reverse of front endpaper; moderate wear; bumping to top corners.
Author was a law clerk under Lincoln and Herndon according to Monaghan. He offers many details of Lincoln's personal life and his relationship with Ann Rutledge.
Very scarce signed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- LaCelle Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16268
- Title
- Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Rankin, Henry B.; Newton, Joseph Fort (Introduction by);
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- 1943,little
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