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First edition, first issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate; inscribed by Lincoln in pencil to close friend Martin S. Morris and accompanied by the table from the Morris household that Lincoln signed the book on. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind. First issue, with no advertisements, no rule above the publisherâ s imprint on the copyright page, and with numeral 2 at the bottom of page 17. Association copy, inscribed by Abraham Lincoln in pencil on the front free endpaper, "M. S. Morris Esq A. Lincoln." The recipient, Martin S. Morris, was was a long-time political supporter and friend of Abraham Lincoln from Menard County, Illinois. In March 1843, Lincoln wrote to Morris, â It is truly gratifying to me to learn that while the people of Sangamon have cast me off, my friends of Menard who have known me longest and best of any, still retain their confidence in me.â Morris was selected as one of the delegates from Menard County to attend the Whig convention in Pekin in May 1843, but was detained by an illness and Francis Regnier attended in his place. The convention selected John J. Hardin rather than Lincoln as the Whig candidate for Congress from that district. In June 1852, Morris's close friend Whig Congressman (and later Illinois governor) Richard Yates wrote to him from Washington regarding the 1852 presidential election. The Democratic National Convention was then underway in Baltimore, and after 32 ballots by the convention, Yates believed the chances of receiving the nomination were against U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois unless â his almost never failing good luck may avail him.â Ultimately on the 49th ballot, the Convention nominated Franklin Pierce, who had received no votes until the 35th ballot. Laid in is Yates' letter to Morris which reads in part, â Washington June 4, 1852 Dear Morris, I thank you kindly. The Democratic Convention is now in session in Baltimore. The 32nd ballot has been had, and no nomination. Douglass does not appear to have as much strength as anticipated, and if we were to judge from present indications the chances are against him. How far his almost never failing good luck may avail him remains to be seen. The contest between Fillmore & Scott, it is now believed, will be very close. Some of the knowing ones, (who have not much to do but make calculations) say that the vote of Illinois will decide the question. We do not know how the Illinois delegation stands but we suppose nearly equal for Scott and for Fillmore. Fillmore and his friends will, (if necessary to defeat Gen'l Scott), cast their vote for Mr. Webster. My opinion, and it is only an opinion is that Gen'l Scott will receive the nomination. Of one thing I feel pretty sure that either Scott or Fillmore will be supported most cheerfully by the Whigs, and what is better the Whigs here and throughout the Union have an abiding confidence that they will again gloriously triumph in November. Such was not the case at the beginning of the session. There was more or less of despondency then, but the skies are bright ahead now and (be the result what it may), the Whigs will march up to the work with unfaltering purpose and in the confident hope of victory. Your friend Richard Yates." The Whig National Convention met a few weeks later, also in Baltimore, and the contest remained close between Winfield Scott and incumbent president Millard Fillmore, with Daniel Webster running a distant third, until Scott finally received the nomination on the 53rd ballot. In his letter to Morris, Yates was confident of a Whig victory in November, but Pierce went on to defeat Scott with 51 percent of the vote to Scottâ s 44 percent, and an overwhelming 254-to-42 victory in the Electoral College. In May 1858, Morris wrote to Lincoln that he and other Republicans in Menard County â are up and doingâ and â though we are in a minority, we nevertheless intend to give them [the Democrats] the best fight we can.â Four months later, he again wrote to â Friend Lincolnâ : "If there is any reliance to be placed on the papers which I read, you are certainly making a very successful electioneering tour through the state, and whether you are elected to the senate or not, you certainly have reason to congratulate yourself and feel proud of the manifestations of confidence every where shown you by the people I have said and believed ever since Douglass repealed the MO. Com. That you would be his successor the first chance the people had to vote in matter, that was a most rascally thing and I believe would and know it ought to politically damn him and all who had anything to do with it, at least in the north. But my object is not to write a dissertation on politicks knowing well that I could say nothing But which you already know, But merely to inform you by way of adding to the encouragement which I believe you are every where receiving, the good news, that you may calculate with a very great degree of certainty on a vote from Menard & Cass. We are glad that you have made an appointment to speak here and will endeavor to get you a large crowd." Contrary to Morrisâ s assurances, in the race for state representative from Cass and Menard, Democrat William Engle defeated Republican James W. Judy for a seat in the legislature, where he dutifully voted for Stephen A. Douglas for the U.S. Senate. In September 1859, Morris was a delegate from Menard County to the Republican Congressional Convention for the Sixth Congressional District in Springfield. At the Convention, Morris was elected to the District Central Committee, which consisted of one delegate from each county. Among the resolutions passed by the Convention were, â Resolved, That the Territories of the United States are the common property of all the free white citizens of the whole Union, but that the institution of Slavery has no right or heritage therein.but at the same time,

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Believed to be the last of Upton Sinclair's unpublished book-length manuscripts in private hands, AMERICAN FABLES is a uniquely important piece of American literary history. Sinclair's body of work dealt with numerous issues and trends in American, life, society and politics during this era, but often as part of a larger, character-driven narrative. AMERICAN FABLES was his signal attempt to synthesize these key threads by combining sections of his work with that of other authors. The work takes the form of 30 'Fables', seventeen of which are Sinclair, thirteen by others including such prominent American authors (and friends) Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Lincoln Steffens, and John Reed. Also included are contributions by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr, the noted anarchist Prince Kropotkin, E. W. Scripps, Harry Price, Prynce Hopkins, and others. Sinclair's own seventeen 'Fables' are taken from or based on previously published works authored 1923-48, with new unpublished material composed in 1952. The thirteen 'Fables' of the other authors (Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, et al.), are mostly from between the wars, but range from 1899 (Kropotkin - a bit of an outlier) to 1951. This work has been much discussed for decades among Sinclair scholars. It has been described as Sinclair's attempt to create a politically-layered, fictionalized history of America between the wars told through key stories taken from his own work and that of others. From what Sinclair told Ron Gottesman, it was intended as a domestic 'prequel' of sorts to the Lanny Budd series. It was an outgrowth of several earlier drafts conceived of, it is said, as an American equivalent to the 'Arabian Nights' or 'One Thousand and One Nights'. Gottesman indicated that, after Sinclair worked through a number of drafts for the better part of a decade under a different title (see below), finishing and sending this 'final' draft to Sinclair's literary agent Bertha Klausner right around the time of the publication of THE RETURN OF LANNY BUDD in 1953, which was the culmination of the enormous series of eleven volumes begun with WORLD'S END in 1940. Sinclair had expected Viking to publish the work, or to easily find another publisher. But this was not to be, as Senator Joseph McCarthy's incendiary attacks against the Left created such a hostile environment, that it intimidated all potential publishers of this new work by the avowed Socialist and one-time Democratic nominee to be Governor of California. After that first flurry of submissions and what Sinclair described to Gottesman as somewhat panicked rejections, the work sat forgotten for years in the files of Sinclair's literary agent, Bertha Klausner, until it was returned to Sinclair in the 1960's. FORMAT: The work is 400 pages, typed on white watermarked paper (8.5 x 11 inches), with 350 of the 400 leaves bearing holograph additions, corrections, and excisions, mainly by Upton Sinclair, but some in the hand of his wife, author Mary Craig Sinclair, 1 page entirely in holograph. The vast majority of typed leaves are ribbon copies. Pagination is almost entirely supplied by hand (correcting the prior typed pagination). The COLLATION is [1-2], 17-54, [54a], 55-189, 190-1, 192, 193a-193b, 194-215, 261-17, 218-263, 263a, 264-267, 267a, 268-284, 285-99, 300-425. PROVENANCE: The estate of Upton Sinclair; by inheritance to his son David, by inheritance to David's wife Jean Sinclair. Ink stamp of Sinclair's literary agent Bertha Klausner on title/index leaf. Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968), pioneering muckraker, American novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of the influential novel THE JUNGLE, which created such public controversy about the meat packing industry that it is in large part credited with the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act, and ultimately to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Outside his literary work, Sinclair was notable in many fields. He was in some ways a precursor to Bernie Sanders, an avowed Socialist who was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1934, running on the EPIC platform (End Poverty in California). He and Mary Craig produced Sergei Eisenstein's landmark 'Que Viva Mexico' in 1930-32. He was a pioneer in such diverse fields as nutrition and health, cooperative living, investigative journalism, self-publishing, free speech and civil liberties, etc., etc. Sinclair's relationships with the authors of the other work included here were often of long-standing. As examples: Jack London had been President of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, with Upton Sinclair as his Vice President, and he and Sinclair were lifelong friends. In fact London's futuristic novel THE IRON HEEL (1908) was written in response to Sinclair's THE INDUSTRIAL REPUBLIC (1906), and provided the introduction to Sinclair's pioneering anthology of literature on social protest THE CRY FOR JUSTICE (1915). London also was one of the subjects of Sinclair's anti-alcohol book THE CUP OF FURY (1956). Sinclair Lewis served for two months as janitor of Upton Sinclair's abortive co-operative colony, Helicon Hall, in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, which Sinclair established win 1906 with profits from THE JUNGLE (it burned down in 1907). BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES: For discussion of this item and its earlier unfinished incarnations from the prior decade, see Gottesman and Silet, 'The Literary Manuscripts of Upton Sinclair' #A26. See also G&S A26a-f, describing six earlier drafts (dating from the 1940's) of what became this work, under the working titles 'American Nights' Entertainments'.

Document. First Edition. Large folio (16-1/4" x 21-3/4") finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners, a bold calligraphic heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent decorated letters; at top center is a small vignette of the pyramid and all-seeing eye above an oval vignette of a slave family with child mourning over a cameo portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the engraved signatures of President Lincoln, Vice President Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax and J. W. Forney (Speaker and Secretary of the Senate), and 164 Senators and Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful printing of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . Shall exist within the United States." This elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside, is based on the special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln and the others, of which only a handful are known to have been made. The Thirteenth Amendment represents the first substantive change to how America interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights since its ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively put an end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 1865. Recently backed with thin paper with several professional repairs of chips and tears. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lincoln (Abraham, 1809-1865). Document signed 'Abraham Lincoln', Washington, 1 August 1864, a military commission, appointing John T. Bolton Second Lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps, printed on vellum with engraved eagle at head and military apparatus at foot, wafer seal to left margin, manuscript insertions, signed by President Lincoln and the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, a little soiling and slightly heavier on folds, approximately 48 x 40 cm, together with two similar military commissions on vellum, appointing John T. Bolton to First Lieutenant 'For gallant and meritorious services during the [American Civil] war', 10 May 1866, and Captain, 13 March 1867, both with stamped signatures of President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the first with circular brown stain at head, plus an earlier commission appointing First Sargeant in Company K of the 28th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, 15 September 1862, signed by the commanding officer W.V. Wisewell, printed on paper with manuscript insertions, some overall browning and creasing, approximately 25 x 38 cm, plus (Oldroyd Osborn H) , The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Flight, Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment of the Conspirators, with an Introduction by T.M Harris, Washington: O.H. Oldroyd, 1901 , illustrations from photographs, advert leaf and folding map at rear some soiling to first few leaves, frontispiece and title-page slightly creased, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus a typed letter signed from Oldroyd to Captain John T. Bolton, Washington, 28 March 1914, beginning 'Mr H.H. Rumble of your city visited my Collection in this House in which Abraham Lincoln died and informed me that you were on duty at Ford's Theatre on the night of the Assassination', and hoping Bolton might write his recollections of that event to place in the collection, some light browning and creasing, one page, 8vo, the five documents matted in heavy card mounts with an additional printed contents list and contained with the inset book in a bespoke brown half morocco clam shell book box, the spine gilt-titled 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Documents', overall 68 x 54 cm (Qty: 1). Extremely heavy, over 50 pounds, needs additional shipping charges. Notes John T. Bolton was a respected soldier who was present when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. It is understood from the family that he had applied for a position in the President's personal security team and that this was being considered at the time of the assassination. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathiser on 14 April 1865 and died the following day. Signed by Author.

First Edition. LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address of the President of the United States on the Fourth of March, 1861. Special Session. Senate. Executive Document No. 1. [Washington: Government Printing Office], March 8, 1861. Slim octavo, disbound; pp. 10. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $8800.Rare second printing of Lincoln's important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery.On the morning of March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was escorted with little fanfare to his inauguration. Anticipating violence, General Winfield Scott had stationed riflemen on housetops along the parade route, as well as platoons and cavalry in the streets. On the platform erected at the Capitol's east portico, "Lincoln put on a pair of steel-bowed spectacles and began reading his inaugural address in a clear, high-pitched voice that carried well out to the crowd of 25,000. The address was a document of inspired statesmanship. He reminded the South of his pledge not to interfere with slavery, but he firmly rejected secession the Union was 'unbroken.' Finally he issued a grave warning [undiluted by his advisors, who recommended that Lincoln soften his martial tone]: 'In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.' Abraham Lincoln was resolved to be President of the whole Union" (Bruce Catton). The address contains some of Lincoln's most famous words: "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Monaghan 102. A fine copy.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Issue: no rule above the publisher imprint at the copyright page, "2" at the foot of p. 17, and without all publisher advertisements. [Howes, L338; Monaghan, 696]. 6.25 x 9.5in. [2] iv. 268 [4]pp. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt titling. VERY GOOD. Shows slight hints of loss at the head and foot of the spine, slight shelf rubbing of one corner, hints of several very light ink marks at the boards, a former owner name of the period neatly at the first blank, the text-block shows the earliest and latest parts of the text foxed, the copyright statement above the imprint suffered a printing error partially obscuring two words, otherwise the binding is strong and tight with no broken hinges or prior repairs, aside from the early and late foxing the text itself is uncharacteristically clean and exceptionally free from foxing, and the boards remain bright, vibrant and distinct. An exceptionally maintained copy. As pictured.

First edition of Stephenson's appreciation of the great American President. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco in an elaborate Cosway-style binding with a hand painted miniature ivorene portrait of Lincoln under glass to the front panel within an elaborate gilt vignette, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, watered silk endleaves, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Cosway bindings (named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were popularized, if not invented, in the early 1900s by the renowned London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran. The earliest Cosway bindings were created by Miss C.B. Currie who faithfully imitated Cosway's detailed watercolor style of portraiture from designs by J.H. Stonehouse, Sotheranâ s manager. These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set into the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by a thin pane of glass.

First edition. First edition. 10 plates (including map and frontispiece). 32pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Lincon Ellsworth (1880-1951), polar explorer and benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History, produced a small private edition of his first-hand account of this hunt in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana in 1911. The last large herd of buffalo in the U.S. had grazed in the Flathead Reservation, and had been sold to the Canadian government four years before. After the round-up several outlaw bulls were still at large in the rugged terrain. Ellsworth describes a three-week hunt in which he finally stalked and shot a large bull. With outstanding provenance, from the library of Samuel B. Webb, a descendant of the Vanderbilt and Havemeyer families. Phillips p. 112; Streeter Sale 4131; Litchfield 76; Heller 1:95; OCLC 16140977 Later blue cloth. Bookplate of Samuel B. Webb 10 plates (including map and frontispiece). 32pp. 1 vols. 12mo.

First Edition. "(LINCOLN) SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1926). Two volumes. Octavo, original half white cloth, printed paper spine labels, top edges gilt, untrimmed, original plain paper dust jackets. $4000.Signed limited first edition of Sandburg's first biography of Lincoln, number 112 of only 260 copies printed, signed by Sandburg on the limitation page."For thirty years and more I have planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face" (Preface). "The most popular Lincoln biography yet written " (Monaghan 2877). Profusely illustrated. Second state, with "eyes" correctly printed on p. 175 of first volume. A fine signed copy.". Signed.

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 finalmanuscript 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, full black morocco lettered in gilt, with gilt borders, raised bands, and top edge gilt, signed by the binder; original brown cloth covers and spine bound-in. First edition, "complete and unabridged edition containing the whole of the Suppressed evidence," with 22-lines describing the contents on the title page and numerous illustrative engravings; 210 pages. Monaghan 1: 786 (some copies have "Alleged" preceding the word "Assassins"). An impeccable copy of an extremely rare publication.

First edition, second printing published the same year as the first, with sixteen advertisements on seven pages, rather than six on four pages (except for the advertisements, the contents and pagination of the 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887 printings are identical). Illustrated. xiv, [ii], 536, [7, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A LANDMARK AMERICAN COOKBOOK. Grolier American 86; Crahan 74; ; Wheaton p.152 #3707; Vicaire p.524 (1887 edition); Bitting p. 288 (citing 1896 edition) Original publisher's green half cloth over marbled boards, generally good, unrestored condition, with some wear to spine and edges of boards, corners bumped Illustrated. xiv, [ii], 536, [7, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, second printing published the same year as the first, with sixteen advertisements on seven pages, rather than six on four pages (except for the advertisements, the contents and pagination of the 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887 printings are identical).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volumes 1-6 of Fun , published by Charles Whyte, September, 1861-September, 1864, covering most of the US Civil War and including 39 full page cartoons of Abraham Lincoln and Civil war politics, by the star cartoonist, Matt Morgan (1839-1890), notorious for his savage lampooning of Lincoln, together with other smaller cartoons and full page cartoons of European conflict, including the Crimean War. Volume I is defective, lacking a few early leaves, front hinge cracked, early leaves creased, occasional staining and soiling, the remaining volumes in good order, with volumes 5 and 6 lacking a total of 7 leaves.

No Date (1860) 1st edition. No cover, as issued, with simple caption title at top, 8vo, 32 pages. The first Jew to serve in the U. S. Senate who did not renounce his Judaism, and future secretary of State for the Confederacy, Louisiana Senator Benjamin levels both barrels at Senator Stephen A. Douglas and his Popular Sovereignty doctrine. An important marker in the dismantling of the National Democratic Party. Signaling Southern repudiation of the Illinois Senator as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, Benjamin argues that the South will be satisfied only by guarantees for the protection of slavery-- regardless of popular feeling-- in the Territories. In the course of arraigning Douglas, Benjamin discusses in some detail the former's debates with Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois senatorial contest two years earlier (the famous the "Lincoln-Douglas Debates") . Sabin; 4701. SUBJECT(S) : Campaign literature -- United States. Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories. Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1860. Campaign literature. Politics and government Presidents -- Election. Slavery -- Extension to the territories. Though several editions of the speech were published, this is the longest (32 pages) and scarcest edition, with only 15 copies listed in OCLC/Worldcat. Tiny notches in spine from earlier binding, Good+ Condition. (kh-5-59).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition. Published in September 1938. Errata slip present. Lacks belly band. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Faint offsetting at upper portion of front panel, extending to spine. A few short edge nicks and hint of chipping to jacket. Top edge lightly foxed. ) 87 images. 5000 copies printed. A photographic high spot that has become increasingly difficult to locate in jacket. ; 8" x 9"; 198 pages.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The complete original New York Times announcing the first news reports on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This copy is in near fine condition and no previously bound. There is slight wear at the center of the first page where two small slits appear with almost no loss of text. This is a well-preserved copy of, perhaps, the key historical newspaper in American history.

Condition: Very good. Athens, Greece, 1940., 1940. Very good. - Quarto, 11-3/8 inches high by 9 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and on the spine. [2], x & 328 mechanically reproduced pages printed on the rectos only. Illustrated with an original photograph as the frontispiece, a pictorial title page, 60 inserted charts and plates not included in the pagination and a folding plate reproducing a document. Most of the plates with drawings were created by the author. Near fine. A RARE AND VALUABLE UNPUBLISHED WORK. Of 15 mimeographed copies this is No. 5 designated for Lincoln MacVeagh and was his copy. Laid into the book is a map outlining the Parnassos Aqueduct with notes on the stages of construction and a "General Plan" of the Athens-Piraeus Waterworks in 1945. The author, Roy W. Gausmann, was one of the designing engineers of the Marathon Dam and, until 1941, the general manager of EEY (the Greek Water Company). He trained as an engineer at Columbia University and worked for Ulen & Co. on the Shandaken Tunnel, bringing water from the Catskill Mountains to New York City. During World War II he supervised camouflaging the dam and purification plant in Athens in order to prevent the Germans from taking control of the water company. From the library of Lincoln MacVeagh and his wife Margaret with their "Arcades ambo" bookplate. Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. He served in the Atois, St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns of World War I as an aide to the commanding general of the 80th Division and of the Ninth and Sixth Army Corps. He rose to the rank of Major. After the war he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value.".

Condition: Fine. Madrid: Oficina de Informacion Diplomatica, March 27-28, 1952., 1952. Fine. - Folio hardcover. Original 12-3/4 inch high by 9 inch wide printed wrappers bound with silk cord into sumptuous 15-1/4 inches high by 10 inches wide burgundy leather with a gilt device centered within gilt decorated roulette and gilt double-ruled frames on the front cover. The binding is further enhanced by gilt inner dentelles and silk pastedowns. 28 pages including 10 pages with tipped on original clippings from Spanish newspapers and 16 pages with 9-1/2 by 7 inch tipped on original photographs (presumed to be by Campua) of the festivities. The edges of a few of the photos are creased. A unique sumptuous volume. "Presentacion de Credenciales del Excmo. Senor LINCOLN MAC VEAGH Embajador de los Estados Unidos." Together with an autograph note signed consisting of over 70 words by the claimant to the Spanish throne Juan III written on both sides of a 4-1/8 inch by 6-1/2 inch card with the Royal Crown printed at top left. "Estoril. 24 - 1 - 52. Dear Ambassador, I have just heard about your appointment as U.S. Ambassador in Madrid, & I feel I cannot remain indifferent with this news.Yours sincerely, Juan / Conde de Barcelona". There are minor staple holes along the left edge of the card. TOGETHER WITH: 2 original photographs by Jose Demaria Vazque (1900-1975), popularly known as "Pepe Campua", the photographer of Franco and the Spanish royal family during the dictatorship. Both photographs are stamped "Campua" and dated March 27, 1952 on the versos. One photo pictures the procession to the Pardo Palace of MacVeagh in a gilded coach drawn by six horses followed by 50 soldiers of Franco's personal Moorish guard. It was the same coach in which Washington Irving went to present his credentials to the regent during the Carlist wars in 1842. The second photo pictures a handshake between MacVeagh and Franco, MacVeagh having presented his credentials to the Generalissimo. Foreign Minister Alberto Martin-Artajo stands in the background. The photographer's credits are stamped in purple on the verso. Likely once mounted into an album, there are black paper remnants adhering to the verso of each photo. In addition there are 15 small snapshots, many cropped from larger photos, of MacVeagh's time in Spain. Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. After World War I he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo. 27 pages, [1] page blank. Wraps rebound in later marbled paper covered boards with black leather corners and spine. Gilt stamped title on the spine. Title on the spine faded. Light toning to the text. Light edge wear to the boards. Watts preaches, "If ever, therefore, there was in reality a Colony, what it should be by description, a refuge to the Poor, an Ease and security to the Rich, a nursery of people, and a supply of necessaries, a reward to the deserving, and a reformation to the disorderly; This, of all others, seems most likely to answer such a character." Scarce sermon preached just two years after James Oglethorpe landed in Savannah, Georgia. Rare. 7 copies of this sermon located in OCLC. Sabin 102173; DeRenne Vol. 1 page 70; Stevens Bibliotheca Americana 557 (mistakenly calls for 72 pages).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. (9 x 8 in, 22.5 x 20.3 cm) 196 pp. First edition. Original black cloth with printed paper label on spine and tipped in errata slip (fine and fresh with minor cloth wear at bottom of rear board and hint of spotting to label); original printed dust jacket (two vertical creases to upper, a similar faint crease to lower; spine darkened with two losses, a 10x15mm crown chip and an archivally repaired split; tiny chips at top edge; closed tears and associated creasing at folds and edges; 20mm dog-legged tear at upper fore-corner archivally mended; overall delicate and a bit loose fitting); original printed yellow bellyband quoting MacLeish and Seldes (numerous creases and wrinkles to upper panel, crease on lower panel, mildly soiled, loss at heel extends to upper panel, front flap perished). Containing 87 photographs, this first edition of Walker Evans's masterpiece "holds a well-deserved place at the top of the pantheon." Parr / Badger, "The Photobook" Vol. I, pp. 114-15). Additional reference: ["The Book of 101 Books", pp. 98-9; "The Open Book", pp. 128-9]. Despite numerous jacket faults, this copy presents quite nicely, is near complete, and scarce thus. Inquiries welcomed.

Signed Limited Edition of Carl Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize Winning First Biography of Abraham Lincoln LINCOLN, Abraham. SANDBURG, Carl. The Prairie Years. With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1926]. First edition limited to 260 copies, printed on Dutch Charcoal Rag Paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 250 copies are for sale. This is number 22 [signed] Carl Sandburg. Two octavo volumes (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 241 x 161 mm.). xvi, 480; vi, 482 pp. Publishers cream buckram over blue boards, spines with printed paper labels, blue endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines very slightly darkened otherwise a near fine, partially unopened set complete with the publishers duplicate labels at the end on each volume. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the sixteenth president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, abolishing slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. The Prairie Years recounts Lincoln's youth and early career before he attained the presidency. The story, of course, starts with his family settling in Kentucky, where Lincoln was born in 1809. Later, he moved with his family to Illinois. Lincoln began in New Salem and later moved to Springfield. Lincoln was a lifelong fascination for Sandburg, who collected information about the iconic President for decades before he began writing about him. These first two volumes, The Prairie Years, were published in 1926, a 344,000-word study covering Lincoln's life up to his move to Washington to become the President of the United States. Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America." Monaghan 2877.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Large octavo. [2]pp. Sewn bluish-gray printed wrappers. A fine copy. Lincoln Kirstein's first commercially published book of poetry, issued as "Pamphlet 1 of the Poetry Series" preceded only by a privately printed poem in 1928. The same series in which Paul Bowles' rare first book, *Two Poems* appeared in. A scarce publication. *OCLC* locates eleven copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. Cushings and Bailey (illustrator). 1st Edition. Cushings and Bailey, Baltimore, 1864. Original gilt purple cloth laminate, some laminate now rippled else very good . 1st Edition. In addition to Lincoln, this book contains a facsimile manuscript of the Star Spangled Banner of Francis Scott Key and a fine engraving of Miss Liberty as a frontispiece First edition of this rare, first publication of the definitive version of the Gettysburg Address. Cushings and Bailey, Baltimore, 1864. Lincoln hand wrote his final version of the Gettysburg Address for Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, a work created by a former Union Army officer to benefit fellow soldiers in the Civil War. Alexander Bliss and John Pendleton Kennedy assembled and published the book in 1864 to raise money for the Baltimore Sanitary Fair. They solicited many prominent Americans, including Lincoln, Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe, to provide hand-written copies of one of their works. The book published in 1864 contains reproductions of many fascinating works hand-written by the authors, including a first appearance of a work by Melville and a work by Edgar Allen Poe, as well as the final and definitive version of the Gettysburg Address. There are five copies of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln?s handwriting. Each is slightly different in its wording and punctuation. The version that was included in Autograph Leaves was his final version, and is considered the definitive text. Lincoln gave the first two drafts of the Gettysburg Address to his two secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. It is presumed, but not known whether one of these drafts is the manuscript that Lincoln read from in Gettysburg. Both of these documents are now at the Library of Congress. The other three copies of the Address were written out by Lincoln in February and March of 1864 for charitable causes supporting Union soldiers. Edward Everett requested a copy for the Metropolitan Fair in New York. The Everett Copy is now at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Historian George Bancroft made a similar request to benefit the Baltimore Sanitary Fair. His stepson, Alexander Bliss, was collecting manuscripts for a book that was to be sold at the Fair. The Bancroft Copy?the copy at now housed at Cornell University?proved to be unsuitable for use in Autograph Leaves of Our Country?s Authors and Bliss and his colleague, John Pendleton Kennedy, were compelled to write Lincoln to request another copy of the Address for their book. Lincoln complied and wrote the fifth and final copy of his speech?the Bliss Copy?in early March of 1864. It is the only copy of the Gettysburg Address that includes a title??Address delivered at the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg??a date, and his full signature. It is now in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. It is also the version that is on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial. The Original Pictorial cover featurres a Wreath of Peace containing a pen, a sword and a rifle. A Triumverate of our America. Note, only 4 copies exist, two in England and two in America. A true Treasure. By the Authors in Facsimile.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Second Printing. Professionally rebound in bonded leather with gilt titling with original publisher's cloth title panel set in, in custom slipcase. With the bookplate of Daniel Guggenheim. [10], 126, [6] p., [72] leaves of plates : photogravure plates, ports., maps. A collection of articles reprinted from Amundsen and Ellsworth's "Our Polar Flight" and "First Crossing of the Polar Sea" as well as from other publications.; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

LINCOLN, Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Published by Columbus Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. First edition, third issue as identified by a number 2 on page 13, and publishers ad. Publisher's original olive green textured cloth, with blind-stamped borders. Slight chipping to headband. Spine lettered in gilt. 268 pages. As the Republican nominee for the Senate, Lincoln delivered his famous convention speech declaring, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' He challenged his opponent, Stephen Douglas, to seven debates highlighting the inconsistency in favoring popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision. Lincoln further stressed the moral iniquity of slavery. Gilt and boards faded, chipping to upper, some damp stain, minor foxing and toning as usual. Overall a good copy. Although Douglas won the election, Lincoln's thoughtful and clear ideation enhanced his fame and led him to winning the Presidency in 1860.

First Edition. 12mos. (5" x 7.25"), Thirty pamphlets; VG-; General orders range from one to eleven pages in length; Light age-toning overall, with some minor wear to top edges; Several orders are hole-punched along the spine edge; Contain the reviews of courts martial verdicts by Lincoln during the years 1862 to 1863; The following General Orders are present: Nos. 17, 76, 125, 127, 135, 145, 149-150, 170, 172-173, 184-185, 197, 228, 230, 242-243, 251, 255, 260, 264, 267, 298, 306, 346, 372, 377, 396. RW Consignment. 1353729. Special Collections.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. This Book is an Ex-Library Book with several library markings. Political debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the celebrated campaign of 1858 in Illinois; including the preceding speeches of each, at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; also the two great speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as carefully prepared by the reporter of each party and published at the times of their delivery. Follett, Foster and Company; Columbus, 1860. Hardcover. First Edition, First Issue. First issue, with no advertisements, no rule above the publishers imprint on the copyright page, and with numeral 2 at the bottom of page 17. An Acceptable, brown cloth binding with blind stamped ornate design on boards, re-enforced spine with handwritten white ink title and library locations sticker on spine, binding shaky, starting hinges with partially cracked rear hinge, heavy wear to board corners with some loss, some scuffing and discoloration to boards, abrasions along board margins specifically to rear, bit pulpy text block with age toning and scattered foxing throughout, rubbing to board and spine edges, previous owner handwritten ink info on front free endpaper, few small dog-eared pages, faint moisture stain on fore-edge and slightly on page margins, several library markings include: library bookplate, library due date card pocket, embossed library stamp, ink library stamps, few ink and pencil notes, barcode sticker, without Dust wrapper. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 268pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

LINCOLN, Abraham (illustrator). SANDBURG, Carl. [LINCOLN, Abraham]. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Volume One. [Two. Three. Four.] New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First edition, signed by Carl Sandburg, and limited to 525 copies, this being number 392. Four small quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 7 inches; 260 x 180 mm). With 414 Half-tones of photographs, and 249 cuts of cartoons, letteres, and documents. Original publisher's heavy-grain buckram over beveled boards. Gilt facsimile closing and signature of Lincoln stamped on top board. Gilt-ruled and -lettered maroon morocco spine labels. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some mild toning from bookplate. Else fine. Partially unopened. In original board slipcase with some wear. "The first edition of Abraham Lincoln: The War Years is limited to 525 copies on all rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 500 copies are for sale." (Colophon). HBS 68658. $2,000.

Oblong Folio. 14.5 x 10.25 in. With 21 silver gelatin photographs on thick photo stock, sized 9.75 x 11.5 in., text w/in negative at lower blank margin, a few w/ pen annotations, all mounted on white linen hinges at gutter margin (minor curving, and bowing to fore-edge. Factory limp padded calf post-binder, gray silk moire pastedowns, brass screw-posts at gutter margin, black enamel & nickel badge mounted on front cover, rounded corners (some chipping, edgewear, minor chipping to spine, fraying to pastedowns), still a VG exemplar from the library of Donald Garrett Small (1889-1973), who served in World War I, and then was very successful auto salesman and sales manager with Oakland, Lincoln, and Ford Motor Companies until after World War II, w/ discrete embossed stamp at upper corners, handwritten manuscript note on verso of last photo. First edition of this extraordinary dealership showroom album for the iconic 1929 Lincoln L Motor Cars, considered to be one of the most elegant of the automobiles of the 1920's. The Lincoln Motor marque was the flagship badge of the Ford Motor Car Co., and largely overseen by Edsel Ford, whose talent for design, replaced the original Leland models with modern & elegant coach builder designs, featuring dark glass version interiors, twin windshield wipers, laminated windshields, a 384.8 cubic-inch engine, rubber engine mounts, and four wheel braking. The 1929 Lincoln featured 24 different catalogued bodies, with twelve from Lincoln including those such as deluxe Sport touring models to closed sedans, as well as specialized models from such custom coachbuilders as Dietrich, Judkins, LeBarton, Locke, Brunn, Willoughby, and Waterhouse. The models depicted in these photos include the Sport Touring Type 177, Sport Phaeton Type 176B, Club Roadster Type 165, the 5-Passenger Coupe Type 170, Judkins Berline Three Window Type 1720, All Weather Brougham by Brunn, All Weather Cabriolet by LeBaron, and the stunning Convertible Coupe by Dietrich Type 181 parked in front of a stately Southern California Spanish-style home. Very subtle changes were introduced between years until the 1930 model year, and in 1931, Ford Model K with a refined V8 and 120 horsepower replaced the Model L. No copies in Worldcat; See: Frank Rose, Lincoln Model L Production Information 1921-1939, Lincoln Owners Club (2012).

Illustrated with portraits, columns and eagles. 10-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. First edition. Pinhole at each corner; overall light age-toning. List of Managers in three columns.