Author: BISHOP, Jim
Title: The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1955. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter black cloth with yellow lettering and green marbled paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 308pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/good. Jacket complete but quite edgeworn, with a bit of paper loss at scuffed spine. A tight and attractive early (not first) printing of this popular 1955 narrative. Tipped to inner flyleaf is a fine autograph addition: A signed photograph (of sorts) of Bishop, being a heavy stock 3½" X 5¼" card bearing a finely-trimmed book portrait of Bishop in suit and tie affixed, above which he boldly signs in blue ballpoint. Undated, although pencilled note on verso dates it 16 June 1983. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln


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