ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION by Newman, Ralph Geoffrey - 1981

Pyramid Books. Used - Good. Good condition.

Garden City, New York, U. S. A.: Doubleday And Company, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bce (Book Club Edition). Small Plate From The Literary Guild Laid In. Include List Of Basic Lincoln Library, Bibliographical References And Index. The Book Is Bound In Gray Cloth Over One Quarter Blue With Orange Lettering On The Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Orange. Moderate Wear. The Jacket Is Worn And Has A Few Small Chips.

Pyramid Books (1964), 408 pages, 1964. Paperback. Lincoln for the ages, by Ralph Geoffrey Newman (1964)

The Schori Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition.

Fort Wayne, IN: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library & Museum. Very Good. 1989. Softcover. Sixth annual R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture. Approx. 6" wide by 9". ; 42 pages .

Evanston: The Schori Press, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Lloyd Ostendorf. A clean, unmarked copy.

Chicago, IL: Ralph Geoffrey Newman, Inc. PB. very good, wraps (softcover).

Paperback / softback. New.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 117pp. Frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Fine/near fine. Later printing of this "memoir" compiled from various writings. Tipped to the front flyleaf is a bold full signature of Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.

Chicago: Ralph Geoffrey Newman, Inc, 1993. Paperback. 4o. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 102pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition of this last hoorah of the venerable Chicago firm, describing 423 items -- this copy with superb autograph addition: Tipped to inside front wrapper is a Typed Note Signed from Newman, 1p, 7¼" X 10½", Chicago, IL, 13 February 1951. Addressed to Jane Carroll. Very good. On "The Civil War Round Table" letterhead, Newman (1911-98) discusses a graphic used to illustrated Civil War Round Table publications and how best to use it. Boldly signed. (Carroll was assistant to Newman's close friend Carl Haverlin, 1899-1985, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc., a music licensing service, as well as a noted Lincoln and Civil War collector.) The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop began as The House of Books, an existing firm that Newman bought and took over during the Depression; he changed its name and focus a few years later at the suggestion of Carl Sandburg. A useful reference.