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Life of Abraham Lincoln by W.D. Howells ; this campaign biography corrected by the hand of Abraham Lincoln in the summer of 1860 is reproduced here with careful attention to the appearance of the original volume
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- xvii p. : facsim. (2 leaves, xi-xii, 17-94 p. ill. (port.)) [6] p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Springfield, IL : Abraham Lincoln Association, 1938.
- Notes:
- The facsimile is of a part of Samuel C. Parks' copy of the original edition, which has title: Lives and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Columbus, O., Follett, Foster & co.; Boston, Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Co., 1860.
- Manuscript note on verso of portrait: This life of Lincoln was corrected by him for me, at my request, in the summer of 1860, by notes in his hand writing in pencil, on the margin ... [signed and dated] Samuel C. Parks. Kansas City, Mo., May 22nd, 1901.
- "This edition ... consists of twelve hundred and fifty copies, of which seven hundred and fifty copies are reserved for the members of the Abraham Lincoln Association and five hundred copies are for sale."
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