Lincoln Reader by Angle Paul Editor (36 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cardinal GC-23. First printing of this edition. Super nice copy. Spotless inside and out. All pages clean and undamaged. Spine is not creased. Light rub wear to edges of spine. Two back cover corner tips mildly bent near the tips. Very little wear otherwise. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj w/lite chipping, in mylar; 564 clean, unmarked pages/index; book club.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ships quickly. Cover is faded but in good condition. Pages unmarked. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Edge wear on cover, pages ivoried.

Soft cover. Condition: G+. Lightly bumped. Two creases along the spine. Strong binding. Previous owner's name on the reverse of the title page. No other markings. xii, 563pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A rich and vivid narrative of Lincoln's life and times. Light blue boards, red title label with Lincoln pictorial and gold-color lettering on spine, xii, 564 pp., illustrated with historic photos including some Civil War images, unclipped illustrated jacket. Light rubbing on front board and spine, no owner names or gift note, clean text, tight binding. Jacket is worn and chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Year on title page. Jacket edges chipped. Tanning. Binding good.

xii. + 564pp. 8vo Black & white photos, drawings, & facsimiles. Light gray cloth. Book of the Month Club edition w/ back cover dot, unpriced jacket, & flier laid in. VG+/Good dj.

Cloth. Condition: Vg Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Minor chipping at spine ends of jacket. Erasure ghost on front end paper of signature written in pencil. Tight and square, clean copy. 539 pages. An unusual type of biography written by 65 authors with vivid narrative. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Civil War.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. blue cloth boards, some shelf wear, some wear to edges and corners, minor scuffing to spine base etc, few marks on boards, otherwise a very good tight clean copy overall. an interesting idea, a biography of Abraham Lincoln written by 65 different authors, each dealing with a specific periods in his life. Book.

vg/vg-, dj bumped/torn. stated on flap "selection of the Book of the Month Club", this copy has price & no BC slug. Illustrated by photos. 1st ed (SD). Binding is gray cloth.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 564 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good hardcover with good dust jacket. Text clean. Illustrated. Spine and edges of cover lightly faded. Thick tape on inner side of dust jacket edges. Small pieces of tape on dust jacket spine. Dustwrapper spine faded. Rubbing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. About Very good in good dust jacket. Loose binding, very light brown soiling of panels, bumping of corners/ends, top corners of pgs on 1st half of book slightly creased, dust jacket shows fading, light soiling, taping of slightly torn spine ends and line Tears on panel edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later. Very good in good dust jacket. Dustwrapper has many chips at spine ends and along top edge. Bottom 1/3 of front dust jacket panel missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. chips and wear to dust jacket, external and internal wear to book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Pages brown. Corners slightly bent. Edges of spine bumped. Spine and edges of cover brown.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 564pp (loc 417/4+1).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. The Lincoln Reader published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardbound. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: VG. 564 Pgs. Edited, with an Introduction by Paul M. Angle. A biography written by 65 authors. From their writings 179 selections have been chosen and arranged to form an integrated narrative. Description text copyright 2000 BooksForComfort. Item ID 1992. book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 1st edition. The Lincoln Reader published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardbound. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Good. Orig owners bookplate inside front cover. Edge wear to boards, break at spine on index page 563, overall content excellent. 564 Pgs. Edited, with an Introduction, by Paul M. Angle. A biography written by 65 authors. From their writings 179 selections have been chosen and arranged to form an integrated narrative. Description text copyright 2007 BooksForComfort. Item ID 13424. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. pp.564 with index. b/w photos. clean tight copy d/j shows small tears, creases to all extremities and corners with some small pieces missing, bumping to corners, top/bottom spines Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book club edition. Cloth. 564 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. No dust jacket. Has a couple of smudges to binding. Contents clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light fraying to spine ends. Small stains to spine. Bookplate on front end page. Book of the month review glued on rear end page. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 564pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and several small edge chips, with jacket spine slightly sunned as usual. Just a book club edition of this fine standard anthology -- but bearing a choice autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is an excellent content Typed Letter Signed from Angle, 1p, 8¼" X 11", Springfield, IL, 1945 March 26. Addressed to John Valentine, partner at Chicago's well-known Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Near fine. On "Illinois State Historical Library" letterhead that cites Angle as "State Historian," he chats cordially about Civil War matters. In part: "Why don't you send down the letter from Grant to Washburne on approval? I wish I could scour the book shops and dealers' stocks for items like this, but I simply can't take the time that it requires." Always seeking to enlarge the Illinois State Historical Society's membership, he also notes: "How about getting us the membership lists of the Westerners, Friends of Literature, and Chicago Literary Society for Historical Society circularization, or persuading the secretaries of those organizations to mail out our membership application blanks? We have taken in a good many new members in the last three months, but if we are going to run our membership from 1,100 to 1,500 this year we will have to keep at it." Signed simply "Paul" in black ink.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fine condition gray cloth boards with a maroon front cover facsimile Lincoln signature, gold spine lettering within a maroon and gold block border contained within a good condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Foreword; Epilogue; References; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. The dust jacket has edgewear chips at the jacket spine, rear upper edge and right jacket front edgewear (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "The Lincoln Reader is a full-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln that has been almost a century in the writing. An Indiana boy in a linsey shirt - and little more - was "kicked by a horse, and apparently killed for a time," and years later wrote of the incident in his autobiography prepared for a presidential campaign. The boy became a lawyer and politician. As he practiced on the Eighth Court Circuit of Illinois, fought for political prominence, and led the "Long Nine" through stormy legislative sessions, he impressed his contemporaries as a man among men, and they set down what they saw. The lawyer became a national figure, then a sad and wise Civil War President; and representatives of government, of the military, and of the leading newspapers of the day wrote of his life, both public and private. The President was assassinated, and a martyr who had been loved and hated by his people was analyzed over the years by many of the great biographers and scholars. It is from all these works that Paul M. Angle has drawn a new, unique portrait of Abraham Lincoln. One hundred and seventy-nine passages and Dr. Angle's running comment blend into a single, vivid narrative of Lincoln's story from his birth to his assassination. The Lincoln Reader possesses and intimacy which recalls the spirit of Lincoln's own times, but it also possesses the detachment of modern historical scholarship. Only in such a book is it possible for contemporaries like Isaac N. Arnold, Horace White, and Carl Schurz to report faithfully the bitter Lincoln-Douglas debates, and for James G. Randall then to place them dispassionately and brilliantly in their proper historical perspective. The poet Carl Sandburg tells of the birth of a baby boy, the love of Lincoln for the ethereal Ann Rutledge, the memorable address at Gettysburg. A gifted political reporter, Murat Halstead, recreates the Chicago nominating convention of 1860. A member of Lincoln's Cabinet, Gideon Welles, entrust high government secrets to his diary. Mrs. Lincoln's cousin, her seamstress, and a girl in her teens reveal life in the White House. In all, sixty-five authors are represented. As the only complete and authentic retelling of the saga of the life and times of Lincoln in one volume, The Lincoln Reader is more than an adventure in reading. Other lives either skip or skim whole episodes, or cover all the ground in any number of volumes from two to ten. The Lincoln Reader is a Lincoln library in itself." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 612 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xii, 564 pages. Illustrations. References. Bibliography. Index. No DJ present. Paul Angle, the noted Lincoln scholar, selected passages from the works on contemporaries, later biographers, and even Lincoln himself, to form a composite portrait of one of the wisest and most beloved American presidents. These passages, interwoven by Angle's running commentary, blend into a single vivid narrative of Lincoln's life, from his boyhood in Indiana to his assassination and funeral. The Lincoln Reader has long been considered the most definitive, complete, and authentic retelling of the life of Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln Reader is a biography written by sixty-five authors. From their writings one hundred seventy-nine selections have been chosen and arranged to form an integrated narrative. Great names in Lincoln biography--Carl Sandberg, Ida M. Tarbell, Lord Charnwood, Albert J. Beveridge, William H. Herndon, John G. Nicolay, and John Hay--stand out prominently; others, like James G. Randall and Benjamin P. Thomas, are better know to scholars than to the general public. Quite a few whose writings appear here have been forgotten by almost everyone, and at lest two who wrote contemporary new stories which Angle included have never emerged from anonymity. Some of Lincoln's own writings have notable biographical significance. Mr. Angle (1901-1975) received a master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1924. His involvement with Abraham Lincoln began in 1925, when he was appointed executive secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association. From the association's headquarters in Springfield he prepared a series of books on Lincoln's day by day activities of the years 1854, 1858, 1859, 1860. In 1932 he was co author with Carl Sandburg of "Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow." which drew critical praise for his arrangement of the letters, documents and appendix. In 1928, when The Atlantic Monthly magazine began publishing "Lincoln the Lover," a series of letters and memorandums ascribed to Lincoln concerning his early romance with Ann Rutledge, Mr. Angle was one of the experts who swiftly challenged their authenticity. The magazine dropped the series. His next book was "Here I Have Lived: A History of Lincoln's Springfield. 1821 1865," published in 1935 and reissued in 1950. It was followed by "A Handbook of Illinois History." written with Richard L. Beyer, in 1943, and "A Shelf of Lincoln Books: A Critical, Selective Bibliography" (1946). These all received wide acclaim but nothing like the public response to "The Lincoln Reader." a one volume biography put together from the writings of 65 authors and published by the Rutgers University Press in 1947. Charles Poore reviewing it in The New York Times, said of Mr. Angle's introduction to each chapter: "The selections from the works of the different authors are introduced in turn so unobtrusively that the transitions from one point of view to another and from one style to another seldom jar." In 1932, Mr. Angle was named historian of the Illinois State Historical Library and secretary of the state historical society. a position he held until he took the Chicago post in 1945. He continued to publish books on Lincoln and other historical themes until his death.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 8.80x5.60x1.40 inches. In Stock.