[Rarebooks] fs: Scarce, Footprints of Lincoln

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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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.. Good.
      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 address stamped twice on front pastedown, 
once on recto of frontispiece, and once on rear pastedown. Spine slightly 
bowed. Frontispiece had been detached and then repaired by prior owner with 
tape. This clumsy repair has now been expertly cleaned up, though still 
visible....... $75.00
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Rock
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 Toews, Rockford E. (Introduction by Edward C. Papenfuse).  'Lincoln in 
Annapolis, February 1865 (Signed).'
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