[Rarebooks] fs: Footprints of Lincoln, 1st, 1909

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 10565 )  Hobson, J[onathan]. T[odd]. FOOTPRINTS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 
PRESENTING MANY INTERESTING FACTS, REMINISCENCES AND ILLUSTRATIONS NEVER 
BEFORE PUBLISHED.
Dayton: Otterbein Press, 1909. First printing, Original cloth, Duodecimo, 
114 pages, black and white photographs, illus.. Near fine.
      Interesting little volume with many portraits and reminiscences of 
people then still living who had known Lincoln. Here are the story (and a 
portrait) of the Haskins triplets purportedly named by Lincoln, a photo of 
"Duff" Armstrong late in life, letters from a surviving attorney in that 
case, a photo of Lincoln's mill, Lincoln's prohibition work with J. B. 
Merwin, and much more. MONAGHAN #1746. Bound in brown cloth over boards with 
gilt-stamped title on upper board and spine. Mild extremity rubs and shallow 
bumps, prior ownership name and city in pencil on front free endpaper, a few 
scattered spots of foxing....... $100.00
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