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Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 2002. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. Pp. 97-135. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive issue of this famed quarterly. This issue includes Wayne C. Temple's "Lincoln's Connections with Middletown and ?Its Stagecoach Inn," Gordon Leidner's "Lincoln as a Transformational Leader," Frank J. Williams' "Lincolniana" and more.

Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1997. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. Pp. 153-200. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive issue of this famed quarterly. This issue includes William Hanchett's "Persistent Myths of the Lincoln Assassination," Wayne C. Temple's "W.P. McGuire Saw Lincoln at Decatur in 1860" and Lloyd Ostendorf's "Faces Lincoln Knew" and more.

New York: Dell Publishing Co, 1963. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition (Dell Purse Book 9025), tight and nice, of this nifty little pocket guide.

Aledo, IL: World-Wide Gun Report, 1980. Paperback. (Volume XXV, No. 9). 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 75pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Quite mild edgewear -- overall tight and attractive. Handsome copy of this monthly, with cover story "Four of a Kind" by Frank N. Graves Jr. From the library of noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold Gates (1914-93).

Irving, TX: Boy Scouts of America, 1994. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Later printing of the 1984 revised edition, tight and nice.

New York: Berkley Books, 1984. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 191pp, (1p ad). Near fine. Later (21st!) printing of this gathering of Sherlock tales, tight and attractive. From the collection of published Sherlock buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010).

Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1955. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff black pictorial wrappers. 40pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Near-perfect second printing of the sixth title in the "Story of Illinois Series.

New York: Random House, 2003. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. viii, 294pp. Near fine. Tight, quite handsome later printing of the first softbound edition.

[New York]: HarperCollins, 1994. xii, 174pp. Line drawings. Near fine. A handsome second printing of this off-color compilation.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xvi, 384pp. Illustrations. Very good. Slight bit of minor wear to wrappers. Tight and attractive later softbound printing.

Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University, 1956. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 36pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Tight and handsome issue of this famed quarterly. This issue features, among other offerings, F. Dewolfe Miller's "The 'Long Foreground' of Whitman's Elegies on Lincoln," Clarence A. Brown's "Orestes Brownson: Lincoln Critic" and Hans Louis Trefousse's "Belated Revelations of the Assassination Committee.

New York: Pocket Books, 1990. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 197pp, (3pp ads). Very good. Slight spine wear. Tight, nice first paperback edition of this Doyle imitator. From the collection of published Sherlock buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010).

[New York: Dell Publishing Co, 1972. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 160pp. Illustrations. Very good. Slight bit of mild edgewear, but overall a tight, clean and attractive first paperback edition.

Martinsburg, PA: Daisy Publications, 1983. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 50pp. Illustrations. Very good. Probable sole printing of this slim collection.

Tucson: Firsts Magazine, 1997. Paperback. (Volume 7, Number 2). Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 76pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine. Contents include: "Book Collector's Blue Chips, Part 2," "Untrodden Paths in Book Collecting," "Collecting John O'Hara" and "Richard Ford: An Appreciation.

New York: Bantam Books, 2003. Paperback. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. 16mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xix, 515pp, (5pp ads). Fine. Tight and pristine "Bantam Classic" edition.

New York: Berkley Books, 1987. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 150pp, 5pp ads). Line drawings, map, charts. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear, but overall a tight and handsome first paperback edition of this volume in "a series of living novels designed for solitary play. Each gamebook is an original mystery which the reader/detective must solve...." From the collection of published Sherlockiana buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010).

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976. Paperback. Narrow 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. (12pp). Very good. First edition. Interesting "little list of primers, stories, rhymes, and other reading matter available to American children in 1776....

New York: Ballantine Books, 1975. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 123pp. Illustrations. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear, else a tight and attractive first paperback edition of this movie spinoff based on the Gene Wilder screenplay, with a film scene of Wilder and Madeline Kahn on the front wrapper. "Now a hilarious motion picture!" screams the front wrapper. "Baker Street runs amuck in the wackiest case of sibling rivalry ever invented!" From the collection of published Sherlockiana buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010).

New York: Berkley Books, 1985. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 254pp, (2pp ads). Near fine. Later (27th!) printing of this popular collection of a dozen favorite Sherlock tales, tight and handsome. "Now A PBS television MYSTERY! presentation," notes the front wrapper. From the collection of published Sherlock buff and noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010).