[Rarebooks] fs: Bio of John Hay (Lincoln Sec'y)

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings All,

For your consideration:
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(No. 7919 )  Thayer, William Roscoe. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN HAY
(COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1916). Full cloth, Octavos, xiv, 456 +
[viii], 448 pages, black & white photographic plates. Fine.
      Personal biography of one of Abraham Lincoln's personal secretaries
based largely on his own correspondence and the recollections of those who
knew him. In his later career Hay became one of America's greatest
diplomats, was Secretary of State under his friend, William McKinley, and
laid the diplomatic groundwork for the Panama Canal. Includes many political
anecdotes from the late 19th and early 20th century American political
scene, as well as an interesting background on the writing of the monumental
"Abraham Lincoln: A History," which Hay co-wrote with John G. Nicolay. The
two volumes are bound in dark green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped
spine titles, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces. Both volumes
have a few minor rubs at spine extremities. Volume II has a spot of fraying
at top fore edge of upper board. A lovely set with sound hinges and
bindings, free of prior ownership marks.    $75.00
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