The Friends of the Library offer books of rare or unusual value on the Library web site. Below you will find our featured items. For a complete list of all books for sale Click Here.
For more information contact the Friends Book Sale Chair at: margylong@gmail.com
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, illustrated by Hope Dunlap. Published by Rand McNally, Chicago and New York, 1910. The hardcover book is 10 ½” by eight, 56 pages in length. Original dark blue cloth cover with medieval style lettering and illustrated paste down to front panel. The corners are bumped, the book shows loving wear, and there is a pencil notation in front cover plus an owner plate. Otherwise, the book is clean and tight. $12
Abraham Lincoln, His Life, Public Services, Death and Great Funeral Cortege with a History and Description of the National Lincoln Monument. Published by H.W.Rokker, Chicago and Springfield, 1889. Affixed bookplate sticker on inside board: "From The Lincoln Home Springfield, Ill." and a personal inscription in ink on first blank page: "For Blanche; I am sitting in Daniel Webstyer's chair, writing this on Abraham Lincoln's desk. From Geo Springfield, Ill June 23rd, 1908." Cloth tan boards with black decoration (see picture) and slight coffee cup mark. Cloth bumped on spine at top and bottom; dedication page beginning to separate from spine at top. Otherwise, a tight, good copy. 5 1/4" x 7 5/8", 458 pgs. A rare find for your "Lincoln Library." $99.95.
Before Freedom Came; African-American Life in the Antebellum South. The Museum of the Confederacy and the University Press of Virginia. Edited by D.C.Campbell, Jr., 1991. 8 1/2 x 11" paperback, 220 page accompaniment to the photographic exhibit of the Museum of the Confederacy. Six color plates introduce six chapters of early photographs, drawings, and maps, each chapter with explanatory text by scholars of the particular topic(s). Edges of cover show some wear, inside, fine. $14.
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