Search Results: Abraham Lincoln from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

Six book hardcover set as pictured. Handsome copies of Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln. This offer includes volumes 1 and 2 of Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years, and volumes 1 through 4 of Abraham Lincoln - The War Years. The Prairie Years is a 24th printing of the 1926 edition. The War Years is a 1939 printing of the 1936 edition. All are in good shape considering their age. Bindings of each volume are intact. Blue cloth boards with blind stamp on front and gold stamping on spine are clean and show light edge wear. Rear corners of volume 4 of the The War Years are bumped. Front hinges of Volumes 1 and 2 of The Prairie Years are lightly cracked. Endpapers of both have pencil notations. Rear endpaper of volume 2 has a production defect. Texts of both appear clean and unmarked. Endpapers of each volume of The War Years are mottled. Volume 1 has writing on the front endpapers. Texts of each volume appear clean and unmarked. All volumes include many illustrations and b&w… Read More

1865 hardcover as pictured. This is a somewhat worn but still handsome volume published soon after the assassination of President Lincoln. Binding is firm. Embossed brown boards with black cloth spine and gold stamping show moderate edge wear. Pencil notation on FFEP. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Lincoln is mottled. Text is tanned at edges and wavy. A few pages have pencil markings. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OG2

1892 hardcover as pictured. This is a very handsome edition that has seen some wear. Binding is intact. Embossed green cloth boards with beveled edges and gold stamping are lightly soiled and show some edge wear with fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Patterned endpapers. Small piece of rear endpaper is missing. Front hinge is lightly cracked. Many pages of text have pencil markings that do not affect readability. Includes 32 tissue guarded illustrations, many of prominent personages from the war of rebellion. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (OM3)

Copyright 1894, this set is from the new and enlarged edition published 1905. Three-quarter bound, 10 volume hardcover set as pictured, missing volumes 11 and 12 [the indexes]. This set is number 216/300 of the Gettysburg Edition, Edition de Grand Luxe. These are beautifully made books whose bindings are very worn. They are eminently suitable for rebinding. Bindings are firm in all 12 volumes. Brown leather and marbled paper boards are very worn and either loose or detached in all volumes. Several volumes are missing either front or rear board. The leather is dry and crumbling. Marbled endpapers. Text block with gilt top edge is rough cut and mottled with some pages uncut. Text itself appears clean and unmarked. Each volume includes tipped in illustrations with tissue guards. Price reflects condition. Price includes extra shipping cost due to weight. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (top of G)

1935 hardcover as pictured. A beautiful book with over 60 reproductions of portraits and busts of Abraham Lincoln. Each illustration is accompanied by a short essay. This is copy number 206 of a limited edition of 650. Signed by author at rear. Ex-library with usual markings. Quarter bound in blue and red cloth with gold stamping, gilt top. Bevelled edge boards show only light edge wear. Text, printed on art paper, appears clean and unmarked. One page has a small newspaper clipping referring to the relevant portrait taped in. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OA4

1906 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping show light edge wear and bumped corners. Owner's name on FFEP. Rough cut text block. Text is lightly tanned but with mottling on several pages. Includes a tissue guarded frontispiece and many other illustrations, several appendices and an index. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1926 hardcover as pictured. A history of Lincoln's Kentucky years and an investigation of his mother's family tree. DNA studies have since clarified the latter issue. Binding is firm. Three quarter bound in maroon and black cloth with gold stamping at fore and spine. Boards are clean with minimal edge wear. Pencil notation and previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes a number of photographs, extensive notes and index. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OA1

1920 hardcover as pictured. An interesting book, quite popular when published in 1920, that made a number of claims concerning Lincoln's forebears. These issues were resolved in 2015 following DNA studies on his descendants. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping are faded over spine with light shelf wear. Pencil notations on FFEP. Rough cut text block. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

Originally published in 1902, this copy from the 1986 reprint by Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Havana, Illinois. Unjacketed hardcover, cover as shown with this listing is slightly bumped and rubbed. Edges aged, binding firm, bookbinders label on back endpaper. Text appears unmarked. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

1973 self published hardcover as pictured. Number 35 of 150 copies which were produced for private distribution only. A nicely made and very interesting book that addresses the question as to whether Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln, was illegitimate and the daughter of a prostitute. Binding is firm. Blue buckram boards are lightly soiled but show minimal wear. Charles Waggoner's (previous owner) bookplate inside front cover with his signature on FFEP. Signed by author on half title page. Provenance documented on RFEP. Text is printed on Brockway text paper. Signatures were printed on one side only. Pages are rough cut on fore edge and uncut at top such that the interior of each uncut pair of pages is blank. Text is clean and unmarked. Includes many reproductions of original documents on which the authors argument is based. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR