Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. [2 blank], [v], [3 blank], 268, [4 of 6 blank] pages plus free endpapers. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear, 2 small sticker remnants on backstrip and front board; top corner of front free endpaper clipped, minor foxing, unrelated clipping laid down to rear pastedown, third rear flyleaf torn out. 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 clean copy of a Lincoln cornerstone. Monaghan, Lincoln-Douglas Debates I; Monaghan, Lincoln Bibliography 69.