Author: FISCHER, LeRoy H.
Title: Lincoln's Gadfly, Adam Gurowski
Description: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 301pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild edgewear. A tight and decent first edition -- discreet ex-library, with few and inoffensive markings. Tipped to the front flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from Fischer, 1p, 8½" X 11", Stillwater, OK, 20 June 1964. Addressed to Arnold Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar). Cordial chitchat about Civil War Round Tables, also noting that "The University of Oklahoma Press is publishing Lincoln's Gadfly on August 27. The work on it is behind now, and all I need to do, I suppose, is stick around." Signed boldly "LeRoy" in blue fountain pen. NEVINS I, 253. .

Keywords: ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln


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