Author: Maltby, Charles
Title: The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln
Description: Stockton, CA, Daily Independent Steam Power Print, 1884. First Edition. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [6], 9-326; pebbled brown cloth over boards with gilt title to spine; small rubbed spots to corners; fading to spine cover and some creasing to tips; rfep with a small chip to fore-edge; previous owner's signature to front board verso with a slight ink bleeding to ffep; overall in about very good condition. Charles Maltby (1811 - 1900) was a lifelong friend and colleague of Abraham Lincoln, having among other things clerked together at a store in ew Salem, Illinois in the early 1830s. After Lincoln's election to the presidency, he appointed Maltby - firstly, as collector of internal revenue for the Fifth District of California and later - as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California. Starting in 1878, Maltby wrote a series of articles of his pmemories of Lincoln, which were printed in the Press journal in Santa Barbara under the title: "Abraham Lincoln: Personal Recollections of a Good President." In 1884, the articles were published in book form - the current edition. Very good .

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