Arthur Brooks Editor Lapsley (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. This soft bound booklet is descriptive of the Constitutional Edition of the Writings of Abraham Lincoln. It was sent, along with a 6" x 9" photogravure portrait of Abraham Lincoln, to a reader requesting the Lincoln portrait and information about the 8 volume Lincoln set. There is a post card to send the G.P. Putnam's paper clipped on the rear cover. There is a typed letter from G. P. Putnam's Sons mail order department outlining the terms and procedure to purchase the set. This booklet is clean and tight with some scuffing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Scuffing to coverboards. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library *No shipping outside the United States available for this heavy book.*.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 8. (US history, presidents) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Half brown calf with marbled paper over boards and old but neat and discreet brown cloth tape to spine. (Ca. 100pp). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, tissue-guarded full-page plates, illustrations. Very good. Mildly edgeworn, with (as noted) spine only replaced with sturdy and neat brown cloth tape. Unusual prospectus for the "Centennial Edition" of this 1905 eight-volume set, subtitled "Together with The Essay on Lincoln, by Carl Schurz / The Address on Lincoln, by Joseph H. Choate / and The Life of Lincoln, by Noah Brooks." Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in various formats ("Collector's Federal Edition," "Connoisseur's Federal Edition" and "Constitutional Edition"), then reprinted by Collier. The 8-volume Collier set is fairly common, but this prospectus for it is seldom encountered. Despite spine, a quite handsome and internally fine copy. MONAGHAN 1466 note.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ex libris, with wallets on inside front cover and barcode label on facing pages; otherwise very good library rebinds and clean unmarked texts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 volume constitutional edition. From a Masonic library with some internal stamps and ownership writing. Faint, pale spine number noted. Tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6 Volumes of the 8 Volume Set - missing Volume 8 and Volume 2. Conditions the same for all unless noted: Blue cloth to barods with gilt lettering to spines and gilt bust of Lincoln on front. Books are tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of major flaws however Volume 1 and Volume 3 have a moderate level of spotting to spines. Each volume has a different frontispiece with titled tissue guard, all near fine. Top edges gilt but somewhat faded. Not the perfect set but more than just readable with interiors clean and sharp. This is the Limited Federal Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this one numbered 262. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Extra shipping charges for this large set likely.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Constitutional Edition. 7 volume set. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth, with leather spine labels. Some chipping to spine labels. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents: V. 1. 1832-1843. --v. 2. 1843-1858. --v. 3. The Lincoln-Douglas debates I. --v. 4. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, II. --v. 5. 1858-1862. --v. 6. 1862-1863. --v. 7. 1863-1865. (7 of 8 volume set.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8 volumes, complete as issued (1905-1906). Copy #496 of 1000 numbered sets of the Federal edition, numbered in each volume. Original black (or a very dark navy blue) cloth stamped in gilt, bust of Lincoln in gilt on front covers, top edges gilt (moderate overall wear; minor browning to text edges; lower rear corner of volume I puppy-chewed). Illustrated in gravure throughout.

Full Leather. Condition: As New. Centinnial Edition. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. Illustrated with photogravure frontispieces. 8 volume set bound in brown leather. Black spine labels. Gilt design, lettering, and foredcges. 5 raised bands. Still in original shrink wrap. Deluxe edition limit to 800 sets. Interior is a facsimile of the P. F. Collier 1906 edition. Volume One: 1832-1843 Volume Two: 1843-1858 Volume Three: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates I Volume Four: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates II Volume Five: 1858-1862 Volume Six: 1862-1863 Volume Seven: 1863-1865 Volume Eight: The Life of Lincoln.

Condition: Very Good. Connoisseurs Federal Edition. The Connoisseur's Federal Edition of the Writings of Abraham Lincoln limited to four hundred numbered sets, of which this is Number 6. Perforated limitation number also present to limitation page. Half morocco over paper covered boards with gilt rule to boards and spine. 5 raised bands. Deckle edges; top edge gilt. Hors textes plates throughout with tissue guards. Silk ribbons present in all volumes. Some wear to edges and occasional abrasions to boards (see images). 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches.