[Rarebooks] fs: Was Lincoln a Spiritualist?, 1891

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(No. 9601 )  Maynard, Nettie Colburn. WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN A SPIRITUALIST? 
OR, CURIOUS REVELATIONS FROM THE LIFE OF A TRANCE MEDIUM...TOGETHER WITH 
PORTRAITS, LETTERS, AND POEMS. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS, AND FRONTISPIECE 
OF LINCOLN, FROM CARPENTER'S PORTRAIT FROM LIFE.
Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, Publisher, 1891. First printing, Original 
cloth, Duodecimo, xxiv, 264 pages, black and white plates. Near Fine.
      Mrs. Maynard's personal recollections of séances conducted in the 
Lincoln White House. The séance attended by Gen. Daniel Sickles is described 
herein from the standpoint of the spirit "Pinkie." Mrs. Maynard claims 
Lincoln used spirit counsel in such matters as the Emancipation Proclamation 
and the Freedmen's Bureau. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by publisher Rufus C. 
Hartranft on preliminary blank. Mr. Hartranft was a cousin of General John 
F. Hartranft who was in charge of the prisoners held in connection with the 
Lincoln assassination at Washington Arsenal Prison. Illustrated with 
photographs and drawings by Frank McKernan. MONAGHAN #1088. Bound in maroon 
cloth over bevelled boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt, both 
boards and spine ruled in blind, and gilt-stamped cameo of Lincoln on upper 
board. Patterned endpapers. Contemporary prior owner name label on front 
pastedown, modern owner bookplate on front free endpaper. There is a touch 
of fading along spine, some shallow wrinkling to cloth at spine ends, and a 
small patch of fraying to cloth on bottom edge of upper board. Binding 
remains sound, gilt bright.    $125.00
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