Author: SULLIVAN, Alexander
Title: Lincoln: The Gift of Illinois to Mankind
Description: N.p. Illinois Athletic Club, 1908. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 32pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, green marbled endpapers. Very good. Internally fine, with binding faintly edgeworn. Tight, attractive first edition of this "Address.. Delivered at a Banquet of the Illinois Athletic Club, on Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, 1908." Discreet ex-library, although of the interesting sort, the only indication being the withdrawn bookplate on front pastedown of Knox College's famed Ray D. Smith Collection -- and this well-known Lincoln and Civil War collector's ownership signature, dated 1911, appears on an inner flyleaf. This is the deluxe edition, a delightful R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company production is printed on handmade Italian paper with deckle edges and features large margins and every page ruled in red. Very uncommon. MONAGHAN 1630 note. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln


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