15 MODERN-DAY BOOKS RELATING TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SOME AUTHOR-SIGNED, NON-FICTION AND FICTION. Including EVERY DROP OF BLOOD, THE MOMENTOUS SECOND INAUGURATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN: by Edward Achorn, 2020, Grove Press, octavo, soft-cover, author-signed, 376-pages illustrated, contemporary Lincoln-history by an eminent historian and author; LINCOLN PRESIDENT-ELECT; ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE GREAT SECESSION WINTER 1860-1861 by Harold Holzer, 2008, Simon & Schuster, 628-pages, octavo, hard-cover with dust-jacket. Author-signed. Detailed study of the critical five months between Lincoln's election and his inauguration. First Edition, First Printing. brand new and unread. Red hardboards with black spine; silver printing; corners and spine sharp. Textblock clean, tight, square, unmarked, unread. Unclipped satin-gloss pictorial dust jacket with original $30. price on flap; no signs of wear; protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper; LINCOLN AT COOPER UNION, THE SPEECH THAT MADE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT by Harold Holzer, 2004, Simon & Schuster, first-edition, 338-pages, hardcover, octavo, dust jacket protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper, author-signed, Holzer won the "Lincoln Prize" for this book; THREE AGAINST LINCOLN, MURAT HALSTEAD REPORTS THE CAUCUSES OF 1860, edited with an introduction by William B. Hesseltine, 1960, Louisiana State University Press, 320-pages, hard-cover, no jacket; "LINCOLN'S SENSE OF HUMOR" by Rirchard Carwardine, 2017, Southern Illinois University Press, hard-cover with dust jacket, octavo, 172-pages; "APPOMATTOX, VICTORY, DEFEAT AND FREEDOM AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR by Elizabeth R. Varon, 2014, author signed, Oxford University Press, 2014, hard-cover, dust jacket, octavo, author-signed, 306-pages; THE HOUSE OF LINCOLN by Nancy Horan, author-signed. Sourcebooks Landmark, 2023. Hard cover, octavo, with dust jacket, 344 pages. Contemporary novel about Lincoln's pre-Presidential every-day life in Springfield, IL told through the eyes of a young Portuguese immigrant who becomes a household employee of Lincoln's wife Mary; CONFEDERATES, 1979, by Thomas Keneally, Harper & Row, first edition, first printing with complete number line starting with number 1. Author-signed on title page, quarto, 428 pages. Blending four different stories of the Civil War, this novel is set in turbulent 1862 Virginia; COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier, 1997, The Atlantic Monthly Press, first edition, dust jacket, octavo, 356-pages. Later made into an award-winning Hollywood movie, Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a wounded Confederate soldier's odyssey from a hospital bed to his beloved near the Civil War's end. A poignant ending cannot fail to bring tears to reader's eyes; TEAM OF RIVALS by Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2005, Simon & Schuster, dust jacket, author signed, octavo, 916-pages, Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing of this engaging history of how President Abraham Lincoln deftly managed his cabinet -- an unlikely collection of talented individuals who were political and philosophical rivals of each other and the president himself. Excellent short biographies of William Seward, Salmon Chase, Edwin Stanton, Edward Bates and Montgomery Blair as well as a notable contribution to the Lincoln literature. A history book of uncommon cultural impact as Illinois' 21st century President-elect Barack Obama was widely known to admire the book and was said to have modeled his initial on the Lincoln "Team of Rivals." Steven Spielberg was another admirer of the book and used it as a main source for his acclaimed film "Lincoln" with Daniel Day Lewis; NO ONE WANTS TO BE THE LAST TO DIE: THE BATTLES OF APPOMATTOX, APRIL 8-9, 1865, 2023, by Chis Calkins, Savas Beatie Publishing, soft cover with illustrations and maps, author-signed, octavo, contemporary volume; MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK; PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES by David H. Leroy, 2009, Oak Knoll Press, quarto, first edition, author-signed (twice), 194-pages, includes dust jacket and CD-ROM which contains a complete copy of Lincoln's personal scrapbook of the debates, copies and transcriptions of Lincoln's correspondence, and some related political cartoons and photographs. A fascinating account of what lead to become a runaway best-seller, the 1860 publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Author Leroy is a former lieutenant governor of Idaho and has written and spoken about Lincoln for 30 years; LINCOLN'S GREATEST SPEECH; THE SECOND INAUGURAL by Ronald C. White, Jr., 2002, Simon & Schuster, quarto, first edition, 256-pages, dust jacket. "In 703 words, delivered slowly, Lincoln transformed the meaning of the suffering brought about by the Civil War" the book's dust jacket introduces this work. Essential for any Lincoln library; IN THE WEB OF HISTORY; GONZAGA COLLEGE AND THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION, 2008, by Paul Warren, New Academia Publishing, first edition, soft-cover, author-signed on title page, quarto, 126-pages. A fascinating account of the Gonzaga connection to those involved in the murder of the 16th President; GENERAL SHERMAN'S CHRISTMAS, SAVANNAH 1864, 2009, by Stanley Weintraub, Harper Collins, first edition, author-signed on title page, hard-cover, dust jacket, quarto, 238-pages. Profusely illustrated with period prints, this book details Sherman's "Christmas gift" to Lincoln, "the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns & plenty of ammunition & also about 25,000 bales of cotton"; Collection of a Retired Journalist Estimate $125-175
