"Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln's Springfield, 1821-1865
by ANGLE, Paul M
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 313pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, foldout map. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight second printing of this important 1935 study. Choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from Angle, 1p, 8½" X 11", Springfield, IL, 27 December 1944. Addressed to John Valentine of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Very good. Two file holes near top; faint original folds. On "Illinois State Historical Library" letterhead listing Angle as State Historian, he chats with this member of their Advisory Council about ISHL issues, about Alfred Whital Stern (1881-1960, wealthy businessman and Lincoln collector extraordinaire), and sets a date for the Council's next meeting. Signed simply "Paul" in blue ink. Lovely and unusual copy of an uncommon title.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45145
- Title
- "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln's Springfield, 1821-1865
- Author
- ANGLE, Paul M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Brunswick
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Abraham Lincoln; Illinois & Midwest;
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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