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The Most Famous Artifact of Lincoln's Humor -- His "Bass-Ackwards" Manuscript by ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Title: The Most Famous Artifact of Lincoln's Humor -- His "Bass-Ackwards" Manuscript
Author: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Description: A master storyteller and talented mimic, Lincoln's humor was the product of his upbringing in the frontiers of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, where tall tales and exaggeration were key ingredients to good jokes and effective tools in the courtrooms and legislative halls. For some, it made him more appealing and approachable to the common man. For others, his coarse backwoods humor was undignified, reinforcing their belief that he was unfit to be president. This manuscript utilizes a series of "spoonerisms," in which the storyteller transposes the first few letters of two adjacent or nearby words for humorous effect. Its namesake, Rev. William Archibald Spooner of New College, Oxford University, was allegedly prone to unintentionally making such mistakes in speaking Complete TranscriptHe said he was riding bass-ackwards on a jass-ack, through a patton-cotch, on a pair of baddle-sags, stuffed full of binger-gred, when the animal steered at a scump, and the lirrup-steather broke, and throwed him in the forner of the kence and broke his pishing-fole. He said he would not have minded it much, but ^he^fell right in a great tow-curd; in fact, he said it give him ^a^right smart sick of fitness?he had the molera-corbus pretty bad. He said, about bray dake he come to himself, ran home, seized up a stick of wood and split the axe to make a light, rushed into the house, and found the door sick abed, and his wife standing open. But thank goodness she is getting right hat and farty again. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Manuscript, "Bass-Ackwards" story, ca. 1845-1850, [Springfield, IL]. 1 p., 7 x 8.5 in. Historical BackgroundC. F. Gunther of Chicago told Jesse W. Weik that Lincoln penned this for a bailiff in the Springfield courts. It was first published by Emanuel Hertz in The Hidden Lincoln in 1938. It once belonged to the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield, which traded it for a first edition of the Book of Mormon. According to auctioneer Charles Hamilton, one collector considered it so unworthy of Lincoln's sacred memory, he bid intending to burn it! Fortunately, he lost. ProvenanceAbraham Lincoln to a bailiff of a Springfield court, reportedly Arnold R. Robinson > The Illinois State Historical Library, gift of a descendant > Charles Hamilton Galleries, May 16, 1963. (See account in Hamilton, Auction Madness, 119: "This unsigned bit of Lincolniana was knocked down for $4,000 at one of my earliest auctions nearly twenty years ago. What would it fetch today!" > Lindley and Charles Eberstadt > Parke-Bernet Galleries (Eberstadt sale), October 13, 1964, lot 124, described as being "the most intimate and unusual Lincoln document known to survive," and "perhaps the greatest Presidential character piece extant" > Christie's (a Western Collector), December 9, 1994, lot 84 > Louise Taper, Beverly Hills, California > The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation, 2007 > Freeman's/Hindman, May 21, 2025, lot 21. ExhibitionsThe Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America, at the Huntington Library, October 1993-August 1994Abraham Lincoln: A Personal Journey at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum, October 12, 2001?February 18, 2002 Condition: Silked; creasing from folds; small losses along folds affecting a few letters; small marginal loss in upper right corner not affecting text; scattered spotting.

THE SAILOR BOYS OF ‘61. FULLY ILLUSTRATED by James Russell Soley

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Title: THE SAILOR BOYS OF ‘61. FULLY ILLUSTRATED
Author: James Russell Soley
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Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1888. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. One of the lovely edition in illustrated paper-covered boards with printed paper spine. There is a previous owner name pencilled on the endpaper; otherwise a clean copy. The boards and spine are relatively bright with some wear but little loss. The bottom from corner has wear. Quite an attractive copy. Very Good binding.

GERTIE THE HORSE WHO THOUGHT AND THOUGHT (Signed) by Margarite Glendinning | Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin

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Title: GERTIE THE HORSE WHO THOUGHT AND THOUGHT (Signed)
Author: Margarite Glendinning | Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
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Condition: Very Good binding
Description: New York: Whittlesey House, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A clean copy of the First Edition, which has been Signed by the illustrator, Louis Slobodkin. The dustjacket has shelfwear and chipping to the extremities. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

The Lost Get-Back Boogie [SIGNED] by Burke, James Lee

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Title: The Lost Get-Back Boogie [*SIGNED*]
Author: Burke, James Lee
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Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: Baton Rouge/London: Louisiana State University Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1986. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [nice tight clean book with no discernible wear; jacket is equally nice, virtually flawless except for the price-clipping]. INSCRIBED briefly and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Novel set in the early 1960s, about a country musician (who is also a Korean War vet) who is paroled from prison in Louisiana after serving a term for manslaughter, and heads west to work out his parole on a Montana ranch. Signed by Author .

Schnittke ... con un saggio introduttivo su "URSS/Russia: 40 anni di musica dalla morte di Stalin a oggi. by [SCHNITTKE]. Restagno, Enzo

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Title: Schnittke ... con un saggio introduttivo su "URSS/Russia: 40 anni di musica dalla morte di Stalin a oggi.
Author: [SCHNITTKE]. Restagno, Enzo
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edizioni di Torino: Torino, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 247 pp. Inscribed by author to musicologist Stanley Boorman.

For Friendship's Sake: William Blake and William Hayley by Exhibition catalogue

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Title: For Friendship's Sake: William Blake and William Hayley
Author: Exhibition catalogue
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Description: 1969. Manchester: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1969 Oblong 8vo, 15pp. Near fine in pink stapled wrappers. § An explanatory booklet for the parallel exhibition of Blake's Heads of the Poets, held at the Manchester Cathedral Arts Festival. Bentley, BB, 697.

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