[Rarebooks] fs: Lincoln biography turned autobiography

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 3370)   Howells, W[illiam]. D[ean]. [Preface by Harry E. Pratt]. LIFE 
OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BY W. D. HOWELLS: THIS CAMPAIGN BIOGRAPHY CORRECTED BY 
THE HAND OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE SUMMER OF 1860 IS REPRODUCED HERE WITH 
CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE ORIGINAL VOLUME.
Springfield: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1938. Limited edition, Hardcover, 
Octavo, xvii, [vi], xi-xii, 17-94 pages, + index, black & white frontispiece 
portrait. Fine.
      A faithful physical reproduction of the Lincoln portion of the 1860 
campaign biography, "The Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal 
Hamlin," written by Howells. The significance of this edition is that it is 
a facsimile of the copy which Lincoln personally read and annotated at the 
request of his friend, Samuel C. Parks, in 1860. The result is a generally 
unacknowledged "autobiography," as we herein have Lincoln's own personally 
approved version of many debated incidents in his life based on his 
pencilled corrections and margin notes along with those portions of the work 
that he let stand. The Preface by Harry Pratt gives historical background 
about Howells and this campaign biography, and some interesting analysis of 
Lincoln's corrections. The publisher's promotional leaflet for this book is 
laid in. MONAGHAN #45. Printed by R.R. Donnelly and Sons in an edition of 
1,250 copies. Bound in marbled paper over boards with black cloth spine and 
black title block on upper board lettered in gilt, slate gray topstain. 
Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Lincoln after a Matthew Brady 
photograph. Hinges tight, prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Lovely 
copy.
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 Sewall, John S[mith]. (1830-1911).  'The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: 
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