Portrait Posterity by Benjamin Thomas (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket you shows like soiling along edge and corner tears/chips. Price is clipped on the front flap. Underside of DJ small tape repair at the bottom spine area. Gray cloth boards is shows very late soiling but otherwise little one. Internal binding is good, no hinge issues. Text pages are tight. No signatures or bookplates present. Only handwriting found in book is on the front end page where there is faint evidence of a price once penciled in the corner. Pages are toned due to age and some minor foxing is present. Romaine Proctor (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Illustrated by Romaine Proctor. Includes index. Octavo, gray cloth covers, xvii [1] 329 pages. Light crease on first few pages, else very good. Dust jacket price clipped and has light wear at edges. 061507B. Proctor, Romaine (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Strong, square copy. Lightly rubbed. Previous owner's name at the top of the ffep. No other marking. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is lightly chipped at the spine tips. It is not price-clipped.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. (Abraham Lincoln, Presidents, Biography) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 1st. Bound in the publisher's original decorated cloth covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Cloth and price clipped dust jacket rubbed at the edges and extremities, chipped at the head of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. cloth hard cover.large 8vo. illustrated by Romaine Proctor.323 PP.very good copy.light chipping on spine and corners a Good Dust Jacket.price present.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. A fasinating look at Lincoln's biographers as they struggle to capture their subject -- from William Herndon to Albert Beveridge and Carl Sandburg Illustrated with portraits of each of the biographers drawn by Romaine Proctor . . Dust jacket has chips and is price clipped . Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover . Romaine Proctor (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 329pp., previous owner bookplate, otherwise a clean, Very Good copy in a Very Good dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the endpage, with autograph only. Solid clean copy. With dyed top ends. Pages have tanned. With drawnigs of noted Lincoln biographers (pre-1940s). Jacket has darkened and has mild vintage wear. First Edition. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Illustrations by Romaine Proctor. 8vo. Pale blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 329pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly age toned, with minor wear at spine tail and couple small coffee drips on front panel. Handsome, tight first edition of this historian's enjoyable assessment of major Lincoln chroniclers. "This is one of a special edition of one thousand copies of this book," notes a tipped-in leaf following the copyright page, "distributed to the members of the Abraham Lincoln Association by arrangement with the publisher." Essays about William H. Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, Jesse W. Weik, Ida Tarbell, Albert J. Beveridge, Carl Sandburg, Paul M. Angle and other Lincoln scholars. Though not so marked, this copy hails from the library of Lincoln-loving Adlai E. Stevenson III (1900-65), Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate, and after him Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois. NEVINS II, 94.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presume First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Romaine Proctor (illustrator). Signed & Inscibed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.00 price intact). Published by Rutgers University Press, 1947. Octavo. Signed and inscribed by author on flyleaf. Blue pictorial boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Black staining to top page ends and slight spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with tears to front panel, spine, and front flap. Book placed in custom acetate protector. An excellent copy of this biography of Abraham Lincoln with author's obituary newspaper clipping laid in. 329 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. Proctor, Romaine (illustrator).

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Hardcover. dj. First Edition. Illustrations by Romaine Proctor. 8vo. Pale blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xvii, 329pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Very good/very good. Mildest of binding wear only, else tight and internally fine; jacket slightly age toned, with touch of minor edgewear only. Tight and bright first edition of this historian's enjoyable assessment of major Lincoln chroniclers -- essays about William H. Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, Jesse W. Weik, Ida Tarbell, Albert J. Beveridge, Carl Sandburg, Paul M. Angle and other Lincoln scholars. Boldly signed by Thomas in black ink on front flyleaf. Front pastedown bears a Lincoln-theme collector's bookplate. Thomas (1902-56) was an American historian and author known for "Lincoln's New Salem" (1934) and mainly for "Abraham Lincoln" (1952), for many years the standard one-volume life of the president; upon learning of a cancer diagnosis he committed suicide. NEVINS II, 94. Signed. …