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Rail splitter : sonnets on the life of Abraham Lincoln / Richard Taylor.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Larkspur Press 40
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Richard, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Poetry.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Poetry.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Mohawk Superfine (Paper).
- Somerset Book (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [12], 61, [7] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Monterey, Ky. : Larkspur Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Young Lincoln in a moment of revelation
- Family history
- Earliest recollection
- Ambition
- Bosom friend
- Lincoln as poet
- Riding circuit
- Storyteller
- A man without a church
- William H. Herndon
- A family next to God
- Lincoln lovesick
- The women in his life
- Sojourn in Lexington on route to Congress
- Parenting
- Rivals
- 'As ruff a specimen as could be found'
- Cassius Clay, lion of White Hall
- Slings and arrows
- Private secretaries
- Toward a confession of faith
- The education of a president
- Col. Elmer Ellsworth, 11th New York
- McClellan
- A student of technology
- Home life
- Blue room
- Mood swings
- Elizabeth Keckly
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Parallel lives
- Proclamation day : September 22, 1862
- A history of violence
- Gettysburg address
- Gen. Ben Hardin Helm
- Confederates in the attic
- Lincoln's photographer, Alexander Gardner
- Resilience
- The third eye
- Life masks
- Lincoln as angler
- Gen. Stephen Gano Burbridge
- Each great tree its shadow
- Whitman
- Triumph
- Good Friday
- Lincoln and the arts
- Assassin
- Theories about who knew Lincoln best
- Black Easter
- The shaping of an icon
- Mary in mourning
- The tyranny of myth
- Losing the diamond in the stew.
- Notes:
- "This book was handset in Garamond type, printed on a hand-fed C & P, then handbound. 550 copies were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. A special edition of 42 copies was printed on Somerset Book paper and includes a portfolio of the engravings printed on Gampi Torinoko paper. The wood engravings are by Wesley Bates and printed from the wood. Design, composition, printing and binding by Leslie Shane, Carolyn Whitesel and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press."--Colophon.
- Kentucky author: Richard Taylor.
- Kentucky artist: Wesley Bates.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection retains dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 471917319
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