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Author: Abott, Abott A.:
Title: THE ASSASSINATION AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, At Washington, on the 14th of April, 1865.
Imprint: New York: American News Co.,
Date: 1865.
Description: Orig. ptd. wrps. in mourning borders, 18.8 cm., 12, small stain on last leaf or v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 372. An inferior copy brought $880. in Nov., 1992, at Christie's, N.Y.
Price: $650.


Author: Angle, Paul M.:
Title: NEW LETTERS AND PAPERS OF LINCOLN.
Imprint: Bost. & NY.,
Date: 1930,
Description: Ed.1, xi, 387, index, illus.
Reference: +Monaghan 3167.
Price: $35.


Author: Angle, Paul M.:
Title: LINCOLN IN THE YEAR 1857.
Imprint: Springfield, Ill.,
Date: (1930).
Description: Ptd. wrps., 57.
Reference: +Monaghan 3166.
Price: $25.


Author: Angle, Paul M.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY SOME MEN WHO KNEW HIM, Being personal recollections of Judge Owen T. Reeves, Hon. Jas. S. Ewing, Col. Richard P. Morgan, Judge Franklin Blades, John W. Bunn.
Imprint: Chicago,
Date: 1950,
Description: 12mo, Ed.1, orig. cl., one of 625 copies, 123, with Civil War Book Club leaf inserted, Intro. by Hon. Isaac N. Phillips.
Reference: +Reprint of scarce Monaghan 1946.
Price: $35.


Author: Angle, Paul M.:
Title: A SHELF OF LINCOLN BOOKS. A Critical, Selective Bibliography of Lincolniana.
Imprint: New Brunswick, (Printed at Lakeside Press, Chicago),
Date: 1946.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 1000 copies, 142.
Price: $65.


Author: Apfelbaum, Chas. and Lois, Eds.:
Title: A CARL SANDBURG MISCELLANY.
Imprint: Valley Stream, NY.,
Date: 1977,
Description: 4to, Ed.1, ltd. to 290 numbered copies, ptd. card covers, (4), 32, illus., facsimiles, signed by editors.
Reference: +Reprint of an early lecture, Spanish-American War record, manuscripts on A. Lincoln, letters to Oliver Barrett, family photographs, &c.
Price: $35.


Author: Arnold, Hon. Isaac N., of Illinois:
Title: RECONSTRUCTION: LIBERTY THE CORNER-STONE, AND LINCOLN THE ARCHITECT. SPEECH of ____, ...in H.R. March 19, 1864.
Imprint: Washington: Printed by L. Towers & Co.,
Date: 1864.
Description: Ed.1, 23cm., disbound, 14, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 274.
Price: $75.


Author: [Barber, Jos.]:
Title: WAR LETTERS OF A DISBANDED VOLUNTEER. Embracing His Experiences as Honest Old Abe's Bosom Friend and Unofficial Advisor.
Imprint: N.Y.: Frederic A.Brady, Pub.,
Date: 1864,
Description: Ed.1, frontis. 312, (1, publisher's list), orig. cl. gilt, sl. spinewear, lower marginal stains on front pages, slight foxing, v.g.
Reference: +Wright #210. Monaghan 275. "Satirical account of the war."
Price: $75.


Author: Baringer, William E.:
Title: A HOUSE DIVIDING: LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT ELECT.
Imprint: Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association,
Date: 1945.
Description: Ed.1, x, 356, illus., fine in faded d.j.
Price: $45.


Author: Baringer, William E.:
Title: LINCOLN'S VANDALIA: A PIONEER PORTRAIT.
Imprint: New Brunswick,
Date: 1949,
Description: Ed.1, vii, 141, illus. by Romaine Proctor, fine.
Price: $20.


Author: [Barker, Harry Ellsworth]
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND MARY OWEN. Three Letters. Lincoln to Mrs. O.H. Browning. I.N. Arnold to O.H. Browning. O.H. Browning to I.N. Arnold.
Imprint: (Barker's Art Store, Springfield, Ill.,
Date: 1922).
Description: Ptd. wrps., (12), 1 of 150 copies, signed by author, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 2548.
Price: $35.


Author: Barrett, Oliver R.:
Title: THE OLIVER R. BARRETT LINCOLN COLLECTION. Public Auction Sale February 19 and 20 ...at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (Cover title.)
Imprint: New York,
Date: 1952.
Description: Annotated catalogue of the great Barrett collection, printed bds., 264, ports., facs., illus., illus., 842 items, fine.
Reference: +"The Barrett Collection is so full and basic that a pretty good life of Lincoln could be written from it alone..." - Benjamin P. Thomas.
Price: $45.


Author: Barrett, Roger W., Ed.:
Title: A STRANGE AFFAIR (by) Abraham Lincoln.
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: (1933).
Description: Privately ptd., wrps., 17, facs., nice copy in soiled orig. blue envelope.
Reference: +Monaghan 3370. "Mystery of the three Trailors and the alleged murder of Archibald Fisher." "It may well be doubted whether a stranger affair ever really happened." -A. Lincoln.
Price: $50.


Author: Barton, William E.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ANCESTRY. Address, Indianapolis, Dec. 5, 1924.
Imprint: Indianapolis,
Date: 1925.
Description: 8vo, wrp., pp.55-76, Ind. Hist. Bulletin, V.2, #4, Jan.,1925.
Reference: +Monaghan 2756. "An investigation of Lincoln's ancestors in England, New England, & Kentucky."
Price: $20.


Author: Barton, Wm. E.:
Title: THE WOMEN LINCOLN LOVED.
Imprint: Indianapolis,
Date: (1927),
Description: Ed.1, 377, col. frontis., num. illus.
Reference: +Monaghan 2904.
Price: $45.


Author: Barton, William E.:
Title: THE INFLUENCE OF CHICAGO UPON ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Address ...before the Chicago Historical Society..Feb. 10, 1922.
Imprint: Chicago: U. of Chicago,
Date: (Jan.,1923),
Description: Ptd. wrps., 54, frontis. port., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 2549. "Account of Lincoln's visits to Chicago."
Price: $25.


Author: Barton, Wm. E.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN IDEAL.
Imprint: Casper, WY.,
Date: (1923),
Description: 12mo, ptd. wrps., 15.
Reference: +Monaghan 2618.
Price: $15.


Author: Barton, Wm. E.:
Title: THE SOUL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: (1920).
Description: Orig. cl., 407.
Reference: +Monaghan 2440. "Heavily documented book of Lincoln's religion."
Price: $35.


Author: Bateman, Newton:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Address.
Imprint: Galesburg, Ill.: Pub. by the Cadmus Club,
Date: 1899.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps., 46, v.g. pls. & facs., fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 1238. Personal recollections, 1842-1861.
Price: $75.


Author: Binns, Henry Bryan:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: London: Dent,
Date: 1907.
Description: Ed.1, xiii, 379, ills., pvt. name in ink.
Reference: +Monaghan 1520.
Price: $35.


Author: [Bruce, Wallace, U.S. Consul]:
Title: THE LINCOLN MONUMENT in Memory of Scottish-American Soldiers. Unveiled by Hon. Wallace Bruce at Edinburgh, Scotland, August 21, 1893.
Imprint: Edinburgh,
Date: MDCCCXCIII.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 48, frontis., illus., sl. spinewear, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 1129. The Address and Poem, "Columbia's Garland" are by Bruce.
Price: $35.


Author: [Century of Progress]:
Title: THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN EXHIBIT GROUP. Century of Progress 1833 to 1933, Chicago.
Imprint: (Chicago,
Date: c.1932).
Description: Oblong 8vo, ptd. wrps., 17, frontis. port. + 5 pls.
Reference: +Monaghan 3367. "Re-enacting High-Lights in Life of the Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865."
Price: $20.


Author: Choate, Joseph H.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.,
Date: (C.1901).
Description: 16mo, Eighth Thousand, bds., orig. front cover stamped gold & green, 38, fine in sl. soiled dj.
Reference: +Monaghan 1279, note.
Price: $15.


Author: Christian, George L.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Address ...at Richmond, Va., October 29, 1909.
Imprint: (Richmond, Va.,
Date: 1927).
Description: Ptd. wrps. sl. worn, 31 (1).
Reference: +Monaghan 1691, Ed.3.
Price: $20.


Author: Clark, Allen C.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Merciful President. THE PARDON OF THE SLEEPING SENTINEL.
Imprint: Wash., D.C.,
Date: 1927.
Description: Lg. 8vo, Ed.1, 41, (1), frontis. port., illus., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 2911. "Account of Private William Scott's pardon; also other cases of Lincoln's clemency."
Price: $25.


Author: Cole, Arthur Charles:
Title: LINCOLN'S "HOUSE DIVIDED" SPEECH. Did It Reflect a Doctrine of Class Struggle? An Address..before The Chicago Historical Society..March 15, 1923.
Imprint: (Chicago,
Date: 1923).
Description: Ptd. wrps., 36, illus., fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 2629.
Price: $25.


Author: Conceicao, Jose Manoel Da:
Title: AS EXEQUIAS DE ABRAHAO LINCOLN Presidente dos Estados-Unidos da America...
Imprint: Rio De Janeiro,
Date: (1865).
Description: Ed.1, printed wrps., 40, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 3796. "An Account of Lincoln's assassination and funeral, beginning with his forebodings when he left Springfield. Concludes with a brief biography." (In Portugese.)
Price: $250.


Author: Damon, Samuel Chenery:
Title: DAMON'S LINCOLN SERMON. A Discourse Preached ...in Honolulu, Hawaii, 14 May, 1865.
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: 1917.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 13, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 2304.
Price: $35.


Author: Davis, J. McCan:
Title: HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN BECAME PRESIDENT.
Imprint: Springfield, Illinois,
Date: 1909, (1914).
Description: Ptd. card wrps., Souvenir Ed. (repr. of Centennial ed.), 93, pls., illus., fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 1578, n.
Price: $35.


Author: Delahay, M.W.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: N.Y.: Daniel H. Newhall,
Date: 1939.
Description: Ed.ltd. to 150 copies, ptd. wrps., (16), fine.
Reference: +Reprinted from the Unique Broadside, Issued by M.W. Delahay, Leavenworth, KS., about 1870. Monaghan 3670.
Price: $50.


Author: [Evans, Henry Oliver]:
Title: LINCOLN AS HE LIVED RELIGION. April, 1928. (Cover title.)
Imprint: (Pittsburgh: Pub. by Caddie Welfare Committee, Western PA. Golf Association,
Date: 1928).
Description: Printed card wrps., 13 x 8.5 cm., 32, (1), fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 3010.
Price: $15.


Author: Foster, B.G.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN INVENTOR.
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Printed wrps., pvt. ptd., 3, 16, illus., port., facs.
Reference: +Monaghan 3013. Story of Lincoln's patent for lifting vessels over shoals.
Price: $20.


Author: Francis, Julius E.:
Title: THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL COLLECTION. Relics of the War of the Rebellion...Collected by _____.
Imprint: Buffalo, N.Y.,
Date: (1887).
Description: Ptd. gilt pict. wrps., 55, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 1031.
Price: $35.


Author: Godkin, Edwin L.:
Title: A LETTER ON LINCOLN.
Imprint: Riverside, CT.,
Date: 1913.
Description: Card wrps., (16), ptd. label, letterpress ed., unopened, uncut, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 2077.
Price: $20.


Author: GRAND ARMY HALL AND MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS, THE:
Title: THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL LINCOLN BIRTHDAY SERVICE ....Feb. 12, 1938. Address by Dr. Wm. C. Howard.
Imprint: (Chicago,
Date: 1938).
Description: Ptd. wrps., 24, 3 pls.
Reference: +Monaghan 3617.
Price: $20.


Author: GRAND ARMY HALL AND MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS, THE:
Title: LINCOLN BIRTHDAY SERVICE. Address by Harry Pratt Judson, President University of Chicago. Address by Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, Secretary Illinois State Historical Society. Memorial Hall Chicago, Illinois...Feb. 12, 1916...
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: (1916).
Description: Ptd. wrps., 39, 2 frontis., fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 2244.
Price: $25.


Author: Griffith, Albert Henry:
Title: THE MESSAGE OF LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS FOR TODAY.
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: (1932).
Description: 8-3/4 x 6", (5)p., double columns.
Reference: +Monaghan 3321. "'The dream of Lincoln' outlined as a world safe for democracy."
Price: $15.


Author: Hertz, Emanuel, of New York City:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT THE CLIMAX OF THE GREAT LINCOLN-DOUGLAS JOINT DEBATE IN GALESBURG, ILLINOIS. Delivered at Galesburg, Illinois, on the 6th day of October, 1928, on the 70th Anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, from a platform erected on the spot where the original debate was held- upon the Campus of ...Knox College.
Imprint: (NY.?,
Date: 1928).
Description: Ptd. wrps. sl. dusty, 14, frontis., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 3023.
Price: $25.


Author: Hertz, Emanuel:
Title: NOTES ON THE HERNDON-WEIK COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LINCOLN MANUSCRIPTS DOCUMENTS AND OTHER PAPERS by Emanuel Hertz, LL.D. With some Extracts from "Lincoln as his Partner (Herndon) Knew Him" by Albert J. Beveridge+ (Line) +Reprinted by permission of The Literary Digest. (Cover title.)
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: (1934).
Description: Tall 8vo, self-wrps., 24.
Reference: +Monaghan 3434. "Includes Hertz's defense of No. 3264, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A NEW PORTRAIT."
Price: $25.


Author: Hertz, Emanuel:
Title: ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTHDAY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Emanuel Hertz. From the New York Times Magazine of February 10, 1935. Inserted in the Congressional Record of February, 12, 1935 by request of Hon. Royal S. Copeland of New York. (Cover title.)
Imprint: Washington: U.S. Govt. Ptg. Office,
Date: 1935.
Description: Tall 8vo, 7p.
Reference: +Monaghan 3478. "Incidents connected with Lincoln's Cooper Union speech."
Price: $20.


Author: Hertz, Emanuel:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN-As to His Kindness and Mercy-Let Woman Testify.
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: 1929.
Description: Printed wrps., 17, (ii), port., facs.
Reference: +Monaghan 3090.
Price: $20.


Author: Horner, Henry, Governor, State of Illinois:
Title: CEREMONIES INCIDENT TO THE PLACING OF THE SERVIUS TULLIUS STONE IN THE TOMB OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Springfield, Illinois, Oct. 11, 1936.
Imprint: (Springfield,
Date: 1937).
Description: Card wrps., 57, pls., facs.
Reference: +Monaghan 3571.
Price: $25.


Author: [Houser, M.L.]:
Title: IN MEMORIAM. JOSEPH BENJAMIN OAKLEAF. October 1, 1858-June 2, 1930.
Imprint: (Peoria, Illinois, Printed for the Oakwood Lincoln Club by Edward L. Jacob,
Date: 1930).
Description: Ed.1, pvt. ptd., probably about 100 copies, ptd. card wrps., (12), tipped-in frontis. port., Biog. Sketch by M. L. Houser, silk cord ties.
Reference: +One of the pioneer Lincoln collectors, "The Baby" of the Big Five, Lincoln authority, writer and bibliographer. See Jay Monaghan: LINCOLN BIBLIOGRAPHY, xviii, and xxiii, where Oakleaf's Lincoln bibliography is noted. Oakleaf was born at Moline, Ill., went to Kansas in 1869, and returned to Moline, where he practiced law from 1886.
Price: $50.


Author: Irwin, Benjamin F.:
Title: LINCOLN'S RELIGIOUS BELIEF. Original Reminiscence and Research by B. F. Irwin, Pleasant Plains, Illinois. (Cover title.)
Imprint: Springfield, Ill.: H. E. Barker,
Date: 1919.
Description: Ed.1, 1 of 200 copies, ptd. wrps., 8-1/8 x 6-1/8", 11.
Reference: +Monaghan 2409. "A factual presentation answering Herndon's statement."
Price: $25.


Author: Jenkins, Alan:
Title: LINCOLN AND SANDBURG-PRAIRIE PROPHETS.
Imprint: Reprinted from the Lincoln Herald,
Date: Oct., 1949.
Description: Sm. 4to, Ed.1, one of a small edition for the author, ptd. wrps., (4, printed double-cols.), 1 illus. (view of the Sandburg Birthplace Lincoln Room), signed by author, v.g.
Reference: +A talk by Jenkins at the Formal Opening of the Lincoln Room in the Sandburg Birthplace, Galesburg, Ill., May 30, 1949.
Price: $25.


Author: Jenkins, Rev. Alan:
Title: THE GALESBURG LINCOLN- DEBATER FOR GOD.
Imprint: (Galesburg, Ill.,
Date: 1945),
Description: Cover title, Ed.1, ptd. wrps., 8, bibliog., fine.
Price: $20.


Author: Jerome, Alonzo Wheeler]
Title: THE GREAT DEBATE. A Platform Scene in the Seven Joint Discussions between Lincoln and Douglas. One of the Relief Pictures in the Dome of the State Capitol at Springfield, Illinois.
Imprint: (Springfield: Rokker Press,
Date: c.1899).
Description: Printed wrps., 23, fldg. frontis., fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 1255.
Price: $35.


Author: [Johnson, Andrew]:
Title: JOHN H. SURRATT. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Transmitting Further copies of papers ...relative to the arrest of John H. Surratt. January 7, 1867.
Imprint: (Wash.,
Date: 1867).
Description: 39th C., 2d S., H.R. Ex. Doc. No.25, disbound, 23.
Reference: +Monaghan 882. "Official documents concerning the pursuit of John H. Surratt."
Price: $45.


Author: Jusserand, J.J.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Address of the French Ambassador at the Unveiling of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln in the Hall of Fame, New York University, May 22, 1923.
Imprint: (N.Y.,
Date: 1923).
Description: 12mo, ptd. card wrps., 7, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 2643.
Price: $20.


Author: Kent, C. W.:
Title: EUCLID + LINCOLN = KENT. A + B = C. Universal Formula. GRAMMAR OF NATURE OR KEY TO the Master's Mind.
Imprint: (Peoria, Ill.,
Date: 1934).
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, pvt. ptd., 143, illus., orig. cl. gilt.
Reference: +Monaghan 3442. Author states: "This book contains the basic foods that nourish the human mind, and as you partake of them, you will see yourself like Lincoln, becoming a giant in mental strength."
Price: $25.


Author: Knowlton, Daniel S.:
Title: A LINCOLN CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1920. Illustrated. (Portrait) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Born, February 12, 1809. Died, April 15, 1865. Compiled and Arranged by Daniel S. Knowlton.
Imprint: Boston, Mass.,
Date: Copyright, 1919.
Description: 5 x 3", (32)p., illus., attached to cardboard back.
Reference: +Monaghan 2463.
Price: $35.


Author: LAMBERT, MAJOR WM. H.,
Title: LIBRARY OF THE LATE _____, Part IV. LINCOLNIANA. Second Section, to be sold...April 1, 2, 3, 1914.
Imprint: N.Y.: Metropolitan Art Assn. (Sale at Anderson Galleries,
Date: 1914).
Description: Ptd. wrps., 1342 lots, NOT priced.
Reference: +Monaghan 2123.
Price: $45.


Author: Lieber, Francis:
Title: LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY. New York (Society Seal) 863 Broadway. No. 67. LINCOLN OR McCLELLAN. Appeal to the Germans in America. Translated from the German by T. C. (Caption title.)
Imprint: (N.Y.,
Date: 1864).
Description: Disbound, 8pp.
Reference: +Monaghan 304.
Price: $75.


Author: [Lincoln Centennial Association]
Title: ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Under the Auspices of the Lincoln Centennial Association and Illinois Centennial Commission At The State Armoury, in Springfield, Illinois, on the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Imprint: Springfield,
Date: (1918).
Description: 12mo, ptd. wrps., xiv, 15-108.
Reference: +Monaghan 2377.
Price: $20.


Author: LINCOLN, ABRAHAM:
Title: ADDRESS OF _____ IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, SEPT. 17, 1859.
Imprint: Cincinnati,
Date: 1910.
Description: 12mo, orig. ptd. wrps., 60, (4), two tipped-in portraits, facs.
Reference: +Monaghan 1928. An advertisement of Traxel & Maas Art Store, Cincinnati.
Price: $25.


Author: Lincoln, Abraham:
Title: "A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND." Text as originally written, Paragraphed, Italicized & Proofread by its author, Printed in its entirety for the first time since its contemporary publication, with Intro. by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
Imprint: Chicago: The Black Cat Press,
Date: 1936.
Description: Lg. 8vo, orig. cl., title-page in blue and black, 29, Ed. ltd. to 140 copies.
Reference: +Monaghan 3528.
Price: $50.


Author: [Lincoln, Abraham]
Title: PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S VIEWS. An important letter on principles involved in the Vallandigham case.
Imprint: (Printed by Edward J. Jacob, Peoria, Ill.,
Date: 1929).
Description: Ptd. wrps., (19), frontis., ltd. to 100 copies, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 243.
Price: $45.


Author: Lincoln, Abraham:
Title: MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Imprint: Washington: GPO,
Date: 1862,
Description: 37th C., 3d S., H.R. Ex. Doc. No.1, 23, disbound.
Reference: +Monaghan 146. Contains the Emancipation Proclamation.
Price: $225.


Author: [Lincoln-Douglas Debate]
Title: OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM, Oct. 7th, 1858-Oct. 7, 1896, THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE, DEDICATION AND UNVEILING OF THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.
Imprint: (Galesburg: Evening Mail Press,
Date: 1896).
Description: Obl. small 4to, dec. wrps., (42), illus., silk cord ties, light soil, front cover tear taped.
Reference: +Monaghan 1203. Chauncey M. Depew was Speaker of the Day; Robert T. Lincoln also spoke.
Price: $50.


Author: Lodge, Henry Cabot:
Title: ADDRESS...Before a Joint Convention of the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Court of Massachusetts, ...On the ... One-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Imprint: Boston, Mass.,
Date: 1909.
Description: Large 8vo, ports., 24.
Reference: +Monaghan 1802.
Price: $25.


Author: Long, John D.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Address....1909.
Imprint: Boston,
Date: 1909.
Description: Printed wrps., 35.
Reference: +Monaghan 1803. A review of Lincoln's problems.
Price: $30.


Author: Lord, James Judson:
Title: LINCOLN MONUMENT DEDICATION POEM delivered at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, October 15, 1874.
Imprint: (Danville, IL.,
Date: 1907).
Description: Ed.1, sm. 4to, (23), printed rectos only, illus. by W. Jerome Willoughby, orig. cl. some flecked, sl. worn.
Reference: +Monaghan 1538.
Price: $45.


Author: Loyal Publication Society.
Title: No.5. VOICES FROM THE ARMY! The Soldiers Open Their Batteries on the Copperheads. The President Cordially Sustained. NO COMPROMISE WITH TRAITORS!
Imprint: (New York,
Date: 1863),
Description: Ed.1, printed wrps., 8.
Reference: +Monaghan 253.
Price: $65.


Author: Masters, Edgar Lee:
Title: LINCOLN THE MAN.
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: 1931.
Description: Ed.1, (12), 520, illus., Index, v.g in worn & repaired dj., INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, "For Sybil Hastings with the compliments of Edgar Lee Masters, January 19, 1931."
Reference: +Monaghan 3284.
Price: $100.


Author: McCarty, Burke:
Title: LITTLE SERMONS IN SOCIALISM BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Culled and commented on by Burke McCarty. Run in the Chicago Daily Socialist in 1910.
Imprint: (Chicago,
Date: 1910).
Description: 12mo, ptd. wrps., 16.
Reference: +Monaghan 1931.
Price: $25.


Author: Meese, William A.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Incidents in His Life Relating to Waterways.
Imprint: Moline, Ill.,
Date: (1908).
Description: Ed.1, printed card wrps. bound in cl., 53, frontis. port.
Reference: +Monaghan 1608.
Price: $50.


Author: Meserve, Frederick Hill and Carl Sandburg:
Title: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: (1944),
Description: Ed.1, or. cl., 30pp. + photographs, v.g. in v.g. dj.
Price: $75.


Author: [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]
Title: NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 30, 1867.
Imprint: Wash.: Printed at the Great Republic Office,
Date: 1868.
Description: 18.5 cm., printed wrps. (port.), 12, little soiled, few spots, a good copy.
Reference: +Monaghan 887, variant, with 1868 on cover. Contains an Address by James Harlan, Pres. of L. M. Association.
Price: $50.


Author: Nicolay, Helen:
Title: PERSONAL TRAITS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: 1912.
Description: Ed.1, 387, t.e.g., sides uncut, small pvt. bookplate, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 2049. "Written from personal notes which the author's father omitted in his biography."
Price: $45.


Author: Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin, of the Rock Island County, Illinois, Bar:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MEADE, LEE AND GETTYSBURG.
Imprint: Done into print by Edward J. Jacob, At His Print Shop, Peoria, Illinois,
Date: 1929.
Description: Large 8vo, orig. col. ptd. pict. wrps., 16, frontis. ports., in orig. pict. ptd. snap-button envelope, only 100 copies were privately issued, fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 3122. "Lincoln as a military stategist."
Price: $45.


Author: Pratt, Harry E., Compiler:
Title: CONCERNING MR. LINCOLN In which Abraham Lincoln is Pictured as he Appeared to Letter Writers of his Time.
Imprint: Springfield, IL.: Abraham Lincoln Association,
Date: 1944,
Description: Ed.1, ix, 145, fine in soiled, sl. wn. d.j.
Price: $40.


Author: Pratt, Harry E.:
Title: THE PERSONAL FINANCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: Springfield, IL.,
Date: 1943,
Description: Ed.1, 4to, xiii, 198, frontis., illus. endpapers, ills., facs., bibliog., index.
Price: $35.


Author: [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]
Title: THE PRESIDENT & THE CRISIS, or AN APPEAL TO THE CANDID OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. From the Hartford Daily Courant, Saturday, Oct. 8th, 1864.
Imprint: N.p. (Hartford?
Date: 1864),
Description: Caption title, 4p., little foxed, sl. edgewear, 22.5 x 16.3 cm.
Reference: +Monaghan 343. "Political discussion of McClellan's failure."
Price: $75.


Author: Rankin, Henry Bascom:
Title: ADDRESS BY ____ Opening the Campaign to Raise a Million Dollars To Establish the Abraham Lincoln University Springfield, Illinois [Quotation] Lincoln, 1856. Lincoln University, 1924.
Imprint: [Springfield, Ill.,
Date: 1924].
Description: Ptd. wrps., (18), 1 of 200 copies.
Reference: +Monaghan 2727. "Publicity for a university that did not materialize."
Price: $25.


Author: Risdon, F. Ray, Ed.:
Title: ASSASSINATION AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: Gardena, CA.,
Date: 1925,
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 100, signed by Risdon, ptd. wrps. little soiled, 17, (1), facs.
Reference: +Monaghan 2806. Reprint of contemporary press articles.
Price: $50.


Author: Ritchie, George T.:
Title: A LIST OF LINCOLNIANA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
Imprint: Wash.: GPO,
Date: 1906.
Description: 4to, Revised ed. with Supplement, 85, heel of spine & corners bumped, bkpl., good.
Reference: +Monaghan 1426, note.
Price: $45.


Author: Sandburg, Carl:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PRAIRIE YEARS by Carl Sandburg Author of "Smotke and Steel," "Slabs of the Sunburnt West," "Chicago Poems," "Cornhuskers," "Rootabaga Stories," Etc. (Cover title.)
Imprint: N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Co.,
Date: (ca. 1926).
Description: printed wrps. little soiled, 34, illus.
Reference: +Monaghan 2876. A prospectus.
Price: $35.


Author: Sellery, George Clark, Asst. Prof., Univ. of Wis.:
Title: LINCOLN'S SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS AS VIEWED BY CONGRESS.
Imprint: Madison, WI.,
Date: April, 1907.
Description: Ptd. wrps., Bulletin-U. of Wis. No. 149 History Series, Vol.1,#3, pp.213-286.
Reference: +Monaghan 1551.
Price: $37.50.


Author: [Shelbyville]
Title: TO COMMEMORATE THE DEBATE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ANTHONY THORNTON ON FREEDOM OF TERRITORIES June 15, 1856 in Old Court House Shelbyville, Illinois.
Imprint: Shelbyville, Illinois: Shelby County Leader Print,
Date: 1923.
Description: Lg. 8vo, pict. ptd. wrps. some soiled, 22, (2), illus.
Reference: +Monaghan 2630. "Dedicatory services at placing of commemorative boulder. Contains address of Burnett M. Chiperfield, Canton, Ill."
Price: $35.


Author: Speed, Attorney General James:
Title: OPINION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF THE MILITARY TO TRY AND EXECUTE THE ASSASSINS OF THE PRESIDENT.
Imprint: Wash.: GPO,
Date: 1865.
Description: Ed.1, printed wrps. little soiled, 16, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 739.
Price: $125.


Author: [Stokes, Rev. H. P.]:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By an Oxford M.A.
Imprint: Portsmouth: Holbrook & Son, Ltd.
Date: (1917).
Description: Ptd. wrps., 14.9 cm., 27, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 2344. "A short biography...written under the influence of America's participation in World War I."
Price: $25.


Author: Thomas, S. E.:
Title: LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE: A Narrative & Descriptive Account...debate in Charleston.
Imprint: Charleston, Ill.,
Date: 1924.
Description: 8vo, ptd. wrps., 11, 2 illus., Bulletin #86, Eastern Illinois Teachers College.
Reference: +Monaghan 2744.
Price: $25.


Author: Thompson, C. M.:
Title: THE LINCOLN WAY. Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library of the investigations Made by Mr. C. M. Thompson In an attempt to locate the "Lincoln Way."
Imprint: Springfield, Ill.,
Date: 1913.
Description: Original wrps., 22, map.
Reference: +Monaghan 2115. Route followed by the Lincoln family from Indiana to Illinois.
Price: $20.


Author: Townley, Wayne C.:
Title: ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY ____, District Governor Illinois Lions Clubs 1923-1924, 1924-1925.
Imprint: (Chicago,
Date: 1925.)
Description: Ptd. card wrps., 13.7 x 10 cm., 8.
Reference: +Monaghan 2815.
Price: $15.


Author: U.S. Congress, Committee on War Claims:
Title: RICHARD H. GARRETT. June 22, 1874. Mr. Lawrence, ...submitted the following REPORT: ...petition of Richard H. Garrett for compensation for barn and other property burned at Caroline County, Virginia, in capturing J. Wilkes Booth, and D.C. Harold, two of the assassins of President Lincoln, in April, 1865....(Caption title.)
Imprint: (Wash.: GPO,
Date: 1874),
Description: 43d C., 1st S., H.R.Rept. No. 743, 8pp., disbound.
Reference: +Monaghan 934.
Price: $45.


Author: [Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States]
Title: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Issued by Americanization Department. Reproduced with Permission of Heirs & Descendants of Jesse W. Fell.
Imprint: (Chicago,
Date: 1920).
Description: Cover title, double folder, 9-1/4" x 6-1/4."
Reference: +Monaghan 2435.
Price: $15.


Author: Wakefield, Sherman Day:
Title: HOW LINCOLN BECAME PRESIDENT, the part played by Bloomington, Illinois...
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: 1936.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 650 copies, xiv, 184, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 3542.
Price: $35.


Author: Walker, R. J.:
Title: LETTER OF HON. R. J. WALKER, IN FAVOR OF THE REELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (Caption title.)
Imprint: London,
Date: Sept. 30, 1864.
Description: 8vo, 22.1 cm., self-wrps., 20, double columns, stitched.
Reference: +Monaghan 364.
Price: $150.


Author: Warfield, Ethelbert D.:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A Memorial Address...February 13, 1909
Imprint: Phila.,
Date: 1909.
Description: Ptd. card wrps., 37, port., cord tie.
Reference: +Monaghan 1884. Intro. by Isaac H. Clothier gives eyewitness account of Lincoln in Phila. in 1861.
Price: $25.


Author: Weik, Jesse W.:
THE REAL LINCOLN: A PORTRAIT.
Imprint: Boston & N.Y.,
Date: 1922.
Description: Ed.1, xx, (2), 323, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 2612.
Price: $35.


Author: Wetmore, Alexander:
TWO ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint: Wash.,
Date: 1936.
Description: Ptd. wrps.,
Reference: +Monaghan 3544.
Price: $50.


Author: White, Horace:
THE LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES. An Address before the Chicago Historical Society February 17, 1914.
Imprint: Chicago: The University of Chicago,
Date: (c.1914).
Description: 8vo, orig. wrps., 32, ports. of the author, Douglas, and Lincoln.
Reference: |+Monaghan 2170. "CHICAGO TRIBUNE correspondent's account of the debates."
Price: $35.

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