Search Results: the life of abraham lincoln by holland jg

UsedGood. 1866 printing. An early biography of Lincoln printed shortly after his death. Brown leather boards with gilt lettering on spine. Book shows considerable age, heavy rubbing and tanning to cover. Spine jacket is cracked and partially hanging, with top 1 cm. missing & binding showing through. Top half of front hinge starting with webbing showing through. Book generally fragile, but intact. Spine cracked, all pages remain, including glassine paper over frontis. Mild spotting and yellowing to page edges. Text clean, no notes or underlining. Overall fair condition, affordable copy of a scarce Civil War-era title.

Gurdon Bill, 1866. Second Printing. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. frontis. Full, tooled leather boards are rubbed on the edges, some wear on front, rear scratched, top corners worn more than bottom corners, spine sunned with wear head/tail. Pencil name front endpaper, 2nd endpaper pencil name and bottom half cut off, light foxing throughout, rear hinge weak, one rear endpaper torn out. 1866 2nd printing. Thomas Chubbuck frontis engraving of the President. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

Springfiled MA: Gurdon Bill, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover. An early biography of Lincoln published shortly after his assassination. This set bears the ownership bookplate of the Library Association of Dark Harbor, ME and indicates that it was donated by Mrs. E.P. Kinnicutt, [the Kinnicutt family was important in New England financial cirles and with the American Antiquarian Society. The set was given by his widow to the Dark Harbor Library (an affluent enclave on an island off the coast of Maine) and they bear the bookplate and very discrete marks supporting that. Dark Harbor occupies about 1/4 of the island and is largely occupied by summer 'cottages', the rest of the island is occupied by largely year-around residents. Owners of the 'cottagers' created the Dark Harbor library, separate from the public library on the island and the cottage families (largely Boston Brahmin) donated books to be shared amongst themselves (there was also, for a period, a fund… Read More

Springfield, MA: Gurdon Bill, 1866. Book. VG Minus. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full calf with extensive tooling front, back, and spine. Gilt tiles and rules to spine along with 7 raised bands.544pp. with dark brown EPs and marbled page edges. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Page 1 rendering of the bust of Lincoln with tissue guard. Other drawings with tissue guards as well. Title page is 1866, copyright page is 1865. Two neat PO signatures ..one on FEP, the other on the next page dated June 1876. This copy is VG- . Spine is sunned and moderately worn but gilt is bright and clean. Both top hinges of spine are starting but holding nicely. Tooled boards have minimal rubbing. Edges and spine ends worn. Marbling on page ends is faded. Inside is otherwise unmarked. Pages are somewhat stiff. Moderate to significant foxing throughout. All pages are present and secure . 2 pages of advertising to the rear. The Preface is written and dated November 1865.… Read More