Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln's Friend and First Hero of the Civil War

RANDALL, Ruth Painter

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1960

About this Item

8vo. Blue paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xviii, 295pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn and a tad rubbed; small "x" inked on bottom page edges. First edition, tight and handsome, of this sensitive biography of the first Union officer killed in the Civil War. This copy with choice autograph addition: Tipped in facing the title page is a unique frontispiece, an Autograph Note Signed from Randall: Heavy stock 5½" X 3½" correspondence card, Urbana, IL, 17 January 1955. Addressed to "Dear Estelle" -- wife of Ralph G. Newman (1911-98, founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop). Fine. On her imprinted "Mrs. J.G. Randall" card, Randall boldly pens in black ink this cordial note: "I wish it were possible for me to accept the most alluring invitation of you and Ralph to the birthday party of an old friend but I cannot make a trip to Chicago at that time. Thank you both so much for inviting me. I hope it won't be too long before I can see the Newmans again. Do you ever drive through Urbana?" Signed boldly in full at the close; address portion on verso also in Randall's hand. NEVINS II, 84.

Seller Inventory # 51702

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln's Friend and First Hero of the Civil War
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War
  • Books