Author: MEARNS, David C.
Title: Largely Lincoln
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, 1961. Hardcover. Introduction by Earl Schenck Miers. Small 4to. Quarter beige cloth with gilt spine lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 227pp. Fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition of this essay collection -- with fine autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Mearns, 1p, 8" X 10½", Washington, DC, 24 February 1959. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln scholar). Friendly note to this New York Civil War Round Table officer and "Lincoln Herald" book reviewer thanking him for philatelic item: "Thank you very much indeed for the first day cover from Hodgenville. This is a welcome addition to our sesquicentennial collection." Signed simply "Dave" in black fineline. Mearns (1899-1981) was the Library of Congress's long-time manuscript division chief. .
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln
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Title: Largely Lincoln
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, 1961. Hardcover. Introduction by Earl Schenck Miers. Small 4to. Quarter beige cloth with gilt spine lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 227pp. Fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition of this essay collection -- with fine autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Mearns, 1p, 8" X 10½", Washington, DC, 24 February 1959. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln scholar). Friendly note to this New York Civil War Round Table officer and "Lincoln Herald" book reviewer thanking him for philatelic item: "Thank you very much indeed for the first day cover from Hodgenville. This is a welcome addition to our sesquicentennial collection." Signed simply "Dave" in black fineline. Mearns (1899-1981) was the Library of Congress's long-time manuscript division chief. .
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48004
- Book number: 48004
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