Life Abraham Lincoln by Barrett H, First Edition (13 results)

Decorative Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. This is the 'new' and revised edition of the biography which first appeared in 1860. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, x + 842 pages + ads; marbled endpapers and fore-edges, decorative leather. A good copy overall, interior very good with internal binding solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed; but exterior worn, hinges are broken and covers are loose, leather back strip over spine missing. The interior of this book is in good condition for rebinding and is priced accordingly.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark green heavily blind-embossed cloth with white lettering. 448pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear only, with white spine lettering quite rubbed; text block evenly age toned as usual. A tight, clean and remarkably nice first edition of a title one might think identical or similar to Barrett's 1860 campaign biography or its enlarged post-assassination version, but according to Monaghan the "Contents entirely different." Printed on low-quality acidic pulp paper, this title is challenging to find in a condition as nice as this exceptional copy, which is remarkably free of the edge chipping to which it's prone. MONAGHAN 1368.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Octavo. [1], viii, pages 9-518, [10] pages of advertisements, [1]. Brown cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the covers with gilt title on the spine. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of Lincoln. Cloth binding is worn with edge tears on the spine and corners. Cloth on the outer joint is split. Light to moderate scattered foxing throughout the text. Text block slightly shaken. Front hinge lightly cracked exposing the stitching in the gutter. Rear hinge in good condition. This is a campaign biography.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 842 pages. Missing frontis illustration. Brown cloth cover with embossed border, gilt lettering to spine, includes messages, proclamations, letters, etc. Rear interior hinge paper cracked. Worn, faded cover with chipping at top and bottom of spine, foxing evident, light signs of mildew evident to endpapers, previous owner's signature to blank preview page, small newspaper clipping with illustration of and poem about Abraham Lincoln to blank preview page; otherwise a neat, tight copy. Record # 604790.

HARDBACK PURPLE. Condition: Fair. FIRST EDITION. shelf worn, corners bumped, pages clean, princeton antiques book plate on inside of front cover DATE PUBLISHED: 1888 EDITION: FIRST EDITION 842.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Rebound in recent black cloth, stamped in gold. This was originally published in printed wrappers, but is now restored. The interior pages are good and the engraved portrait of Lincoln is present verso the title page. Also included in this is a "Sketch of Hannibal Hamlin with an engraved plate of Mr. Hamlin present. The final 12 pages of the Hamlin piece have some stains to the bottom of the pages (the section on Lincoln is free of any defects). Ref.: Monaghan 20.

Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 216pp. Illustration. Good plus. Binding edgeworn and rubbed, with spine lettering faint; text block lightly age toned, with foxing to preliminary leaves. Quite tight and decent first clothbound edition of this campaign biography. "Barrett's Authentic Edition" first issued in a rare wrappers version, then one week later in this clothbound version. The steel-engraved portrait of running mate Hamlin is nice; the frontispiece unbearded Lincoln portrait is an archival replacement on appropriate period stock. MONAGHAN 20. SABIN 3616. WESSEN 10.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rebound with new spine using original spine laid over 8vo, hb, embossed green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 1st edition with 1864 date on tp and cp, 518 pages followed by book adds at rear, a solid Very good copy with moderate general wear, spine ends and tips worn, square & tight binding, name on rear pastedown with water stain on foredge of first 15pp, else clean and mark-free, scarce first edition.

Original cloth [rubbed at extremities, spine lettering dulled]. Port. frontis of a clean-shaven Lincoln, 'Middleton, Strobridge & Co.' in small lettering. Port. of Hamlin after page 194. 216 pp. Foxed, lacks endpapers, some doodling on blanks. Good+. "Barrett had been a delegate to the Chicago convention, and seems to have been closely associated with Lincoln for several days after its adjournment. Years later he wrote: 'He readily gave such facts as my inquiries invited or suggested.' Nor was Barrett content with the material which he obtained directly from Lincoln. He sought to provide an accurate background, and to this end turned to Filson's history of Kentucky, Judge Scott's gazetteer of Indiana, and to other source books. The result was a commendable work, the first of a long series which was to issue from the pen of this author" [Wessen, Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln 1860]. Wessen says the book first issued on June 27 1860, in printed wrappers and, as such, is "excessively rare;" and on July 2 in cloth with, as usual [and as here], the second state of Lincoln's portrait. FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 20. Wessen 10. Miles 396. Sabin 3616. Not in Eberstadt, Thomson, Decker.

Condition: Very Good. A very good and tight copy bound in orignal 3/4 leather with marbled boards, brown end papers with all edges gold gilt. Five Raised bands to spine. First Edition. Loss to top of spine. No bumped corners. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln with facsimile signature. A very nice copy with very little foxing due to the chemical impurities in the paper. Uncommon without spotting and foxing. A scarce and fairly rare book.

HARDCOVER. Condition: ABOUT VERY GOOD. FIRST EDITION. BARRETT'S AUTHENTIC EDITION. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1860 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN INTRODUCTORY BIOGRAPHY PUBLISHER' S ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE DECORATIONS IN BLIND TO FRONT AND REAR COVERS WITH PALE GREEN ENDPAPERS, AND FRONTISPIECES OF LINCOLN AND HAMLIN. OTHER THAN PERVASIVE FOXING/STAINING TO THE TEXT, SPOTTING AND STAINING TO THE CLOTH, AND SOME MODERATE WEAR TO THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS, A VERY GOOD SOLID COPY OF AN ELUSIVE BOOK. THE INDINANAPOLIS PUBLISHER (ASHER AND COMPANY) SEEMS TO BE AFFILIATED WITH THE CINCINNATI PUBLISHER (MOORE, WILSTACH, KEYS & COMPANY).

Condition: Good. Possibly the first full book, or nearly so, biography of Abraham Lincoln! The first of an estimated 15,000 book form biographies of the 16th President, the number of which continues to grow unabated. Lincoln was nominated at the Republican Convention on May 18th, and this book was completed by June 18th, the date given in the preface. It was issued with wrappers on June 27th (an extremely rare artefact), and in this, technically the second state since it has a different binding, a week later, on July 2. The biography, obviously rushed out to meet a sudden demand with Lincoln's nomination, was clearly intended to help the campaign, and clearly that is how this copy was to be used, with a penciled inscription that reads as follows: "Presented to Miss Emma Kirby with the hope that she will use her influence towards the election of Honest Old Abe & her friend Hamlin too. by her friend, LHM." Who Emma Kirby was we haven't been able to ascertain. LHM we think stood for Lizzie Hall Park McCullough, who in 1860 was only 12 years old, the M standing for her married name, and this inscription was written later, with the book somehow returned to her possession. Implicit, whatever the circumstance, was that the recipient had connections, even though whatever her age, as a woman, no vote at the time, and the inscription attests to the book having been actively used as a campaign tool. But we also can't be sure of this, since what was meant by "influence" may have meant something different to the inscriber than it does to us. What we do know, though, is that a later owner of the book, Hall Park McCullough (1878-1966), a successful New York attorney (partner at Davis, Polk), and a founder of Bennington College. He was from a sort of first family of Vermont, as a descendant of not one but two Governors of the Granite State, one from each side of his family no less. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. 216 pp. Two portrait plates, one, of Lincoln, as the frontis, and the other, of Hamlin, facing the first page of his considerably shorter section. (Plates not counted in pagination. First 8 pages of pagination in Roman numerals, but numbering continues thereafter instead of starting again, as the more common practice.). Heavy wear at spine tips, and moderate edge wear beside of boards. Foxed throughout, as inevitable with the paper used. First Edition. Barrett's Authentic Edition.