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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…
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The life of Abraham Lincoln
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by J.G. Holland; Thomas Chubbuck
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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
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
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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.…
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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.
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