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Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies
by HOLZER, Harold (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 156512166X
- ISBN 13
- 9781565121669
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1999. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue and brown cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial dust kjacket. 269pp. Small illustrations. Near fine/fine. Three blank rear flyleaves filled with closely pencilled unrelated notes from owner. Handsome, tight first edition of these excerpts from a huge spread of Lincoln admirers and detractors -- with archival decorative-edged bookplate boldly signed in black ink by Holzer on front flyleaf.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48000
- Title
- Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies
- Author
- HOLZER, Harold (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 156512166X
- ISBN 13
- 9781565121669
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Abraham Lincoln;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- 12mo
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