Author: BUCK, James Smith ("Prophet James")
Title: The Chronicles, of the Land of Columbia, Commonly Called America. From the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, to the Second Reign of Ulysses the I. A Period of Two Hundred and Fifty-Two Years...
Description: Milwaukee, F.W. Stearns, 1876. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green pebble-grained cloth with gilt title. 112pp, v, (2pp). Very good. Bit of minor edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of this bizarr-o U.S. history written in Biblical form, a popular if minor scriptural fad of the time. Front pastedown bears printed accession form (which notes it was acquired in 1923 for $4.00) of noted Lincoln collector George P. Hambrecht, who founded the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin and who lightly pencils on inner flyleaf that pages 63-89 largely concern Lincoln. Much content of course devoted to the Civil War. Buck (1812-92) was a Wisconsinite who authored a 4-volume "History of Milwaukee." Not in Monaghan. .
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln
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Title: The Chronicles, of the Land of Columbia, Commonly Called America. From the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, to the Second Reign of Ulysses the I. A Period of Two Hundred and Fifty-Two Years...
Description: Milwaukee, F.W. Stearns, 1876. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green pebble-grained cloth with gilt title. 112pp, v, (2pp). Very good. Bit of minor edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of this bizarr-o U.S. history written in Biblical form, a popular if minor scriptural fad of the time. Front pastedown bears printed accession form (which notes it was acquired in 1923 for $4.00) of noted Lincoln collector George P. Hambrecht, who founded the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin and who lightly pencils on inner flyleaf that pages 63-89 largely concern Lincoln. Much content of course devoted to the Civil War. Buck (1812-92) was a Wisconsinite who authored a 4-volume "History of Milwaukee." Not in Monaghan. .
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 27747
- Book number: 27747
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