[Rarebooks] fs: All known photographs of Abraham & Mary Lincoln

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer both definitive references to the known photographs 
of the Lincolns (interestingly, there is not a single photograph of them 
together):
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(No. 7901 )  Hamilton, Charles and Lloyd Ostendorf. LINCOLN IN PHOTOGRAPHS: 
AN ALBUM OF EVERY KNOWN POSE (SIGNED).
dayton, OH: Morningside, 1985. Reprint, Full cloth, Quarto, x, 421 pages, 
Black & White photographs. Very good in good dust jackets, Jacket in Mylar 
protector.
      INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Ostendorf on title page. Contains every known 
photograph of Lincoln at the time of publication, some of which appeared 
herein for the first time. Several are reproduced for the first time from 
their original glass collodion plates, unretouched and uncropped. This 
volume represents a valuable update to the pioneering works of Meserve, 
adding several images and correcting information about others. It also stays 
much closer to photography than did Lorant's pictorial biography of Lincoln. 
In short, it presents Lincoln as the camera saw him, and carefully 
catalogues and describes each image in context. Bound in tan cloth over 
boards with gilt title and rule on a dark brown oval title block on spine. 
Jacket has a few short closed edge tears and associated creases.    $200.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7901.jpg
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(No. 8928 )  Ostendorf, Lloyd. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARY TODD LINCOLN.
(Springfield): (Illinois State Historical Society), (1969). Full cloth, 
Octavo, [ii], 64 pages, Black & White photographs. Very Good.
      Catalogue of the 26 known photographic likenesses of Mrs. Lincoln, 
including 4 which were heretofore virtually unknown and published here for 
the first time. Ostendorf here follows the same pattern he and Charles 
Hamilton used in their definitive work on the photographs of Abraham 
Lincoln. Each image herein is accompanied by the relevant information known 
about it, and is given a unique number. Bound in pictorial printed cloth 
over boards. Light rubs at corner tips and at upper joint near head of 
spine. A few scattered spots of foxing to textblock edges, light soil to 
white lower board. No prior ownership marks.    $150.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/8928.jpg

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Today's featured book from our stock at the booksellers' cooperative, 
TomFolio.com:
 Houser, M[artin]. L[uther].  'The Books That Lincoln Read (Signed).'
 Details and secure ordering: 
http://www.tomfolio.com/mall/backcreekbooks/bookdetails.asp?book=9387
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