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.

Bill, 1865-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket - as issued. Vintage Hardcover, First Edition, 1866, Gurdon Bill, Springfield, Mass, 544 pages with one additional publishers advertisement. Good, no DJ, as-issued. Moderate shelf/edge wear and rubbing to blind stamped dark brown leather boards with gilt spine titles. Spine is lightly faded but titles are still bright. No previous owner markings - all pages are intact and all tissue guards are present. Scattered foxing throughout the book and light edge-toning to pages. Text block edges are marbled. Published within a year of Lincoln's tragic death, Holland's biography delved into the now-familiar tales of young Lincoln earning his first silver dollar as a rail-splitter, his honorable compensation for a ruined book, the impactful millhorse's kick to his head, the legendary wrestling match with Jack Armstrong, and the enduring anecdotes about Lincoln's distinctive sense of humor and wit. A very respectable First Edition with… Read More

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, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011

Springfield, Mass: Gurdon Bill, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo. [5], 6-544, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Maroon cloth with borders in blind on each board, gilt lettering on the front board, gilt lettering and two gilt rules on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln and with three additional engraved plates. Broadfoot 277. Nevins II 64. Nevins calls this the first full biography of Abraham Lincoln. A small split to each hinge, a small dampspot on the frontispiece, a few leaves with offsetting.