Life of Abraham Lincoln / by W.D. Howells -- Memorabilia of the Chicago Convention -- Speeches / [Abraham Lincoln] -- Life and speeches of Hannibal Hamlin / by John L. Hayes

Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

Bound in embossed cloth-covered boards, with gold lettering on spine

Copy 1: Title page and frontispiece missing

Copies 1, 3: Letter "i" missing from last line of p. 46; factual error on p. 74 uncorrected

Copy 2: Errata slip bound in between p. 74 and 75

Copies 3-5: Includes t.p. imprints: Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co. ; Pittsburgh: Hunt & Miner ; Cleveland: Ingham & Bragg

Copies 4, 7-8: Factual error on p. 74 uncorrected

Copy 4: Inscribed, first leaf recto: 8 Octb., A. Hubley's book, 1861

Copies 5-6: Letter "i" missing from last line of p. 46 ; p. 74 corrected

Copy 5: Inscribed in pencil, front lining paper: This book is valuable, possibly worth $20 or $25 ... Oct. 23, 1927 ; and on flyleaf: 1st edition given me by Bill Howells' dad ; and on following leaf: [illegible name], presented by W.C. Howells, senator, Aug. 4, 65, [illegible name] Ohio

Copy 5: 8 pages of publisher's advertisements follow p. 406

Copies 6-7: Includes t.p. imprint: Boston: Brown & Taggard

Copy 6: Inscribed in pencil, flyleaf: A.E. Pillsbury, Boston, 1924 ; inscribed in pencil on recto of frontispiece: the first 8 lines of Longfellow's poem The builders, signed A friend ; back lining papers and flyleaf contain an apparent apothecary list in pencil, with two sketched poetic lines in pencil

Copy 8: Includes t.p. imprint: Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Co

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