SIX TITLES RELATED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SPEECHES, DEBATES, LETTERS, AND CAMPAIGNS.most 19th century. LIVES AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HANNIBAL HAMLIN by WIll Howells, 1860, Follett, Foster & Company. 406-pages, First edition, first state with letter "i" missing from word (i)importance" last line p. 46. Blind stamped pebbled grey-green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Frontis portrait engraving of Lincoln with facsimile signature below plus engraved portrait of Hamlin and woodcut of "Republican Wigwam at Chicago." This book was a campaign biography, no dust jacket, octavo.; POLITICAL DEBATES BETWEEN HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HON. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS IN THE CELEBRATED CAMPAIGN OF 1858 IN ILLINOIS, two copies, first: early edition, Columbus Follett, Foster & Co., 1860. grey-green hardcover, 6-1/4" x 9 3/8", 268-pages. Mixed state edition; no publisher ads. That said, there is a line above the printer's name on the copyright page and the "2" is at the bottom on page 13. Original boards embossed and ruled in blind. Gilt title-stamping to spine. An impressive copy that is complete and fully intact; later edition, Columbus Follett, Foster & Co., 1860. Brown hardcover, 6-1/4" x 9 3/8", 268-pages. Publisher on first pages. That said, there is a line above the printer's name on the copyright page and the "2" is at the bottom on page 13. Original boards embossed and ruled in blind. Gilt title-stamping to spine. Book is complete and fully intact; THE LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES, AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 17, 1914, by Horace White, The University of Chicago Press, 1914, Pamphlet, soft cover, 32-pages. White was a reporter of the famous debates for the Chicago Press and Tribune and accompanied Lincoln during debates. Later he was a Washington correspondent. Wrap edge wear; CAUCUSES OF 1860; A HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTIONS OF THE CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, . M. Halstead, 1860, Follett, Foster and Company, first edition, hard cover, no jacket, brown binding, 232-pages. Complete coverage of the Democratic convention in Charleston, SC, the Baltimore National Constitutional Union Convention, the [Republican] Chicago Convention, the Constitutional Democratic Convention at Richmond, the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore, the Institute Hall ("Seceders") Convention and the Second Richmond Convention. Near contemporaneous coverage of the historic events; LINCOLN PASSAGES FROM HIS SPEECHES AND LETTERS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION by Richard Watson Gilder, 1901, The Century Company, hard cover, sextodecimo, front cover separated from rest of book, ornate leather binding, 204-pages, eminently readable. A sweet little book in need of TLC.
Collection of a Retired Journalist Estimate $100-200
