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Seller: Sumner & Stillman

Title: THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1846. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint; in our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright, near-fine copy, with very little wear; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked (the front paste-down bears the bookplate of the late Chicago professor Thomas S. Moch, and a small corner of the rear paste-down is chipped). Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Dr. Sam:Johnson, Detector (Association copy with Signed Letter by Ellery Queen)
Author: De La Torre, Lillian
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine/Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo., 257pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this anthology of historical mystery tales featuring the eminent Doctor and his scribe, James Boswell. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some softness to spine ends. Spine gilt a touch dulled. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.75), has few short closed edge-tears and a couple of shallow creases on the rear panel. Light rubbing to hinges. Still bright, complete and quite presentable. Laid in is a holograph note in the hand of Richard Dannay, and signed "Ellery Queen", (the other half of Ellery Queen is Manfred Lee), to the father of Lillian de la Torre, Jose de la Torre Bueno In it, he is wishing him a happy birthday and praising him because he also knows his daughter, presumably because she frequently contributed stories to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Torre-Bueno himself was a noted author and expert on entymology who first published in 1937 his still widely used and influential Torre-Bueno Glossary of Entomology. Not perfect but a presentable copy at a great price.

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Seller: McBlain Books

Title: They Knew Lincoln
Author: Washington, John E.
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1942. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. frontis portrait, photos, 244p. plus an unnumbered appendix of 21 pages. Original blue cloth. dj. 22 cm. Spine lightly sloped. Worn jacket with backstrip heavily chipped and also split along front panel. The author, an African American, was a dentist and teacher, and a collector of Lincolniana. This scarce book, which is partly autobiographical, is mostly focused on the lives and recollections of African Americans who knew or remembered Abraham Lincoln or his wife Mary Todd Lincoln. The last part of the book is devoted to Elizabeth Keckly, whose veracity and very existence had been challenged, mostly by various Southern whites, including David Rankin Barbee, a Texas-born writer on Southern history. As whether she wrote or had help in writing her "Behind the Scenes," Washington argued persuasively that James Redpath, the Northern abolitionist, helped, based partly on the recollections of Hannah Brooks, an elderly African American. This book was reprinted in 2018 by Oxford University Press with a carefully researched and extensively footnoted Introduction by Kate Masur (found at pages ix-lxxx).