Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
"WELL WORTH NOT ONLY A PERUSAL, BUT A STUDY" LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. [2 blank], [v], [3 blank], 268, [6 blank] pages plus free endpapers. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear, backstrip a bit darkened; 2 Lincoln clippings on front pastedown, moderate foxing, a few early pencil notes; original owner's signature on front free endpaper, early inscription on title page: "Well worth not only a perusal, but a study." Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster & Company, 1860

Additional Details

first edition, first issue of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, with the signature mark "2" at the bottom of page 17. A strong copy of a Lincoln cornerstone. Monaghan, Lincoln-Douglas Debates I; Monaghan, Lincoln Bibliography 69.