Description
First edition of Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot 1861, edited by Norma B. Cuthbert, with bookplate signed by Herbert Hoover, Jr., eldest son of President Herbert Hoover.
Octavo, xxii, [2], 161pp. Blue textured cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Solid binding. Toning to endpapers and text pages, offsetting to pages 122 and 123, with no other marks or notations. Light wear to spine ends and corners. In publisher’s dust jacket, retail price of $3.00 on front flap, toning to spine, chipping and tears to top/bottom edges, wear along flap folds and spine edges, faint dampstain along lower edge of back panel. Presentation bookplate of the Lincoln Club signed by Herbert Hoover, Jr. on front pastedown endpaper.
