[Rarebooks] fs: Brooks. Washington in Lincoln's time, 1896, scarce

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(No. 10547 )  Brooks, Noah (1830-1903). WASHINGTON IN LINCOLN'S TIME.
New York: The Century Co., 1896. Original cloth, Duodecimo, xii, 328 pages. 
Good, ex-library.
      Brooks, the Washington correspondent for the Sacramento Daily Union, 
had originally met Lincoln during John C. Fremont's campaign in 1856 he too 
lived in Illinois. Brooks was a journalist friendly to Lincoln's 
administration and enjoyed unusually close access to the President and Mrs. 
Lincoln, and here he provides an intimate account of Lincoln's presidency 
which remains a standard source. See ANGLE p. 78-79; BURKHIMER #9; MONAGHAN 
#1160. Bound in gray cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper 
board, top edge gilt. Minor extremity wear, mild browning to spine. 
Scattered ex-library markings....... $125.00
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