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Comments and Notes: NY: Scribners, 1915 (3rd reprint of 1908 first illustrated edition) - Good hardcover/no dust jacket - 12mo/7 5/8" tall - grey papercovered boards with dark brown backstrip - b&w on buff frontis - exterior wear; some foxing behind the frontis illustration - prev owner name on front endpaper, date 1923; otherwise no markings - 47 pages. Moving tale of a visit by Lincoln to the hospital bedside of a young, dying Southerner who, not recognizing the visitor, praises his Gettysburg speech. Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860-1936). © Copyright Periplus Line LLC 2000 | Updated: September 28, 2008 |
