[Rarebooks] FS: 1st pub. work of William Dean Howells. Columbus, OH: 1860

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Howells, William Dean and John L. Hayes]. LIVES AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HANNIBAL HAMBLIN. Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster & Co. 1860. First edition. 8vo. 406pp. With the two engraved portraits of Lincoln and Hamlin with tissue guards. A lovely copy in orig. brown cloth, blind tooled covers, and gilt spine. Spine somewhat faded.                $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A complicated book bibliographically. See BAL 9538 for a long discussion. Our copy is Variant B, with Imprint A, and binding variant C. Howells was 23 in 1860. This work and POEMS OF TWO FRIENDS also 1860, are his first published work.

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