The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Flight, Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment of the Conspirators
by Osborne H Oldroyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+4 cover pages and front photos loose
- Seller
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
O.H. Oldroyd. . 1901. Cloth, octavo, xviii and 305 pp. Foldout map attached at rear, in good shape. This edition was limited to 250 copies . This is recorded as 175. 305 pages. Illustrated with photos. Cardstock engraved plate of Lincoln and fold-out map are present. . Limited 1st Edition. 1901. Osborn Oldroyd (1842-1930) was one of the great collectors and early researchers on Lincoln and lived in Lincoln's Springfield home for several years in the 1880s. He accumulated thousands of items related to the president, many of which are at the Ford's Theater Lincoln Museum today. As part of this account Oldroyd describes personally retracing the route of John Wilkes Booth's flight, with a folding map of the route laid in. 82 illustrations including photographs from Oldroyd's collections, with an introduction by Thomas Maley Harris, a Union general who was on the commission to try the Lincoln conspirators and also authored books on the assassination. Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- The FW Collections (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H83
- Title
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Author
- Osborne H Oldroyd
- Illustrator
- the 82 half tone illustrations are from original photos and drawings in the house where Lincoln died
- Format/Binding
- Cloth stitched, gilt title on front and on binding 4 cover pages and front photos loose
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+4 cover pages and front photos loose
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, limited edition ,175 of 250
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Mershon Company Press
- Place of Publication
- Rahway, NewJersy
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 7x10
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- american history limited edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- rare books; Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; ABAA-50;
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