Author: MILNER, Duncan C.
Title: Lincoln and Liquor
Description: New York, The Neale Publishing Company, 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 155pp. Good plus. Binding a bit edgeworn and lightly soiled, with 2" near spine center quite rubbed, though internally near fine. A tight, nice first edition of this uncommon study of Lincoln's abstinence from spirituous beverages, bearing on front pastedown the bookplate of the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and on facing front flyleaf an appropriate non-authorial gift inscription in black ink: "July 1943. / For the Abraham Lincoln / School -- its faculty and / students -- / May they, even as Lincoln / himself, find their love of / liberty exceeded by nothing / but their loathing for / liquor -- / Earnestly yours, / Rev. J. Cavanagh Diggles, 'A.A.' / Rev. J. 'Toots' Couroy, 'A.A.'" The identity of these two pedantic pastors remains a puzzlement, but it's a delightful temperance inscription from two early Alcoholics Anonymous members. Very uncommon -- the second printing of this title is often encountered, the first only rarely. MONAGHAN 2469. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln


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