Author: HYMAN, Harold M.
Title: Union and Confidence: The 1860s
Description: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1876. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full brown leatherette with gilt lettering. 302pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Tight and internally fine, though spine shows unfortunate scratch from head to tail. First edition of this "third volume in a retrospective series commissioned by Dun & Bradstreet Companies, Inc.. Dr. Hyman was asked to probe the business aspects of the 1860s as well as the political and social history of the era." This copy bears a choice autograph addition, for tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page is a unique frontispiece: an Autograph Letter Signed from Hyman, 1p, 5½" X 8½", n.p. 20 June [no year]. Addressed to "Ralph" (Ralph G. Newman, 1912-98, founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop). Fine. On pale blue Rice University "from the desk of" letterhead, Hyman chats about the "Lincoln Legal Papers" project, a long-running and massive documentary editing project: "I trust that the attached will serve, at least to initiate matters. I did not suggest my own full-time devotion to the Lincoln Legals project, primarily because I doubt that the budget could cope. The options I sketch -- I am sure others exist -- allow for partial monetary expedients.." Signed simply "Harold." Handsomely penned in black fineline. From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .

Keywords: Civil War Business & Economics


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