Price: $3,850.00

Ray illustrated some of the most popular comic books of the 1930s – 1970s, including Superman, Batman and Robin and G.I. Combat, all for D.C. Comics. An expert in historical uniforms, Ray illustrated a number of historical booklets, such as interpretive pieces for Fort Henry, Fort Niagara, and Fort Ticonderoga, as well as the Alamo and the battle of Antietam.

This work, apparently intended for the magazine Civil War Times Illustrated, reinterprets a scene from the July 22, 1864 battle of Atlanta , drawn from the popular Cyclorama, in Atlanta. In the background is the Troup Hurt house, site of the breakthrough of the Union line by Confederates under Brigadier General Arthur Manigault – pictured in the foreground. In the middle-distance Union troops of General John A. Logan’s XV Corps counterattack to re-establish their line.

Fine condition, with borders unpainted accept for, interestingly Confederate figures emerging from the unfinished border as Michelangelo’s figures were “freed” from the stone.

	Price: $3,600.00

. A large woodcut bust portrait of Andrew Johnson, approx. 6 x 7.5 in. and surrounded by a border of small red-outlined stars, dominates the center of this unusual piece. His portrait is partly overprinted in red and blue, to provide flesh tones and color both suit and background, and is surrounded by black and white woodcuts of all his predecessors (including a beardless Lincoln).

The outer border is composed of slightly finer cuts of 15 generals (Sherman, Thomas, Grant, Sheridan and Hooker at top; Hancock, Rosecrans, Cox, Burnside, Rousseau and Logan along the sides; Butler, Terry, Banks and Howard at bottom) and Adm. Farragut. Each of these appears within an identical red-and-blue tinted “frame” composed of an eagle, flags, and the figures of Liberty and Justice. Each Presidential portrait bears a short gloss of the administration and a tally of electoral votes cast; the military ones have very brief biographical and sometimes editorial captions (e.g., for Hooker, “He meant business…[I]f there was not so much strategy, there was…an endless amount of ‘fight’”). A comment that Gen. Cox “is governor elect of Ohio…chosen Oct. 10” and “will enter upon the duties…in January, 1866” effectively dates this broadside. Display-quality material of Johnson as President is very scarce, doubtless due to the rapid decline of his political fortunes and eventual impeachment.

Some smoothed old folds; fine and quite fresh appearance. Quite unusual for this period; the first we’ve seen it.

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	Price: $5,500.00

Norman Price studied art in London and Paris and was known for his history and war-action paintings and illustrations. His superb pen and ink works that appear in Treasure Island are particularly important. The Canadian born Price knew many Civil War veterans, whose experiences are reflected in the details and mood of this piece, a scene from what appears to be the Battle of the Wilderness.

We see an ammunition wagon train rumbling toward the front, with an ambulance returning to the rear while two Zouaves carrying a litter. Other soldiers search for bodies and aid the wounded. A striking, brooding, and emotional night scene!

	Price: $200.00

This wonderful print shows Abraham Lincoln as he appeared during the 1858 campaign for the U. S. Senate. Based on an ambrotype taken by Calvin Jackson, at Pittsfield, Illinois, October 1, 1858 (O-10), Maxwell Boas has captured "Lincoln the Politician" as he appeared at the height of Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

A limited edition of 100 numbered and artist-signed Bicentennial Giclée prints of a fine oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Maxwell Boas.

*A Giclée print represents one of the finest ink-jet reproduction techniques. . Included is a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist. This portrait was used to illustrate the cover of Norman Boas’ Abraham Lincoln: Illustrated Biographical Dictionary.

Ships in a tube, $22.00 shipping to the contiguous United States.

	Price: $6,500.00

A striking presentation of America’s first sixteen Presidents, each shown in an oval bust portrait, arranged around ornate oval framework, with Washington at the top and a beardless Lincoln (from his “Cooper Union” photo) at the bottom.

The central oval shows Columbia holding a liberty cap on a pole and a stars-and-stripes shield; a bald eagle w/arrows is at her side, a steamship and the U.S. Capitol dome behind her. The president’s names and administration dates are printed near the bottom. This print was made to honor Lincoln ’s first inauguration but proved difficult to sell, owing to his changed appearance -- his newly-grown beard.

Professionaly conserved: Paper replacements at two margins, not affecting the image; light water-staining at bottom margin; a few marginal closed tears; tear from top down through middle of image is bearly noticeable. When framed, most problems can be matted out. GORGEOUS COLORING WITH A FINE, FRESH APPEARANCE. PERHAPS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ANY POPULAR POLITITCAL PRINT IMAGE OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.

	Price: $25,000.00

A three-quarter, shoulder-length view based on a photograph of Lincoln and son, Tad, taken by Anthony Berger at Brady's Gallery, Washington , D.C. , February 9, 1864 [Ostendorf, O-93A].

This particular image is one of the most popular of Lincoln , partly because it was of him reading. But this close-up of him wearing spectacles is one of Courter’s finest! The colors remain both vibrant and warm, causing a true 19th century feel. Here, certainly, is “Father Abraham.”

	Price: $18,500.00

Perhaps based on Brady’s January 8, 1864 photograph [O87].

Courter is faithful to the subject, but injects a living spirit to the image.

	Price: $1,550.00

Produced by this famous firm as their sales item for Lincoln inauguration. They used the famous Mathew Brady Cooper Union image in a very pleasant and effecting manner. They did not know he would come to his inauguration sporting a beard, though, and this became difficult to sell – thus making it a most unusual print to find today.

Excellent, even with prior matting marks at the margins of the image; lt. soiling only.

	Price: $2,850.00

Lincoln is depicted in the style of the 19th century “apotheosis,” accompanied to heaven by a host of angels. As an artist, Salvador Dali was not limited to a particular style or media. The body of his work, from early impressionist paintings through his transitional surrealist works, and into his classical period, reveals a constantly growing and evolving artist. A superb draftsman, Dali's insight and symbolic complexity are apparent.

Bright and clean, as issued.

	Price: $500.00 Standard Framing: $250.00

Limited edition print, hand-pulled from the original printing plate, hand numbered and embossed with the seal of the Estate of Bill Mauldin.

Bill Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize -winning editorial cartoonist. He was considered a hero by the common soldier. While serving in the infantry Mauldin began drawing cartoons about regular soldiers, called "dogfaces". Eventually he created two cartoon infantrymen, Willie and Joe, who became synonymous with the average American G.I.

This print is Mauldin's response to the assassiantion president Kennedy. "Back at his cubicle, he took a snoort of Jack Daniels from a bottle in a filing cabinet and went to work. What he produced in a short time was a drawing that the news desk instantly recognized as a must-carry cartoon. The back page, historically reserved as the paper's primary showcase for the day's major sports stories, was pre-empted for Mauldin. Many newsstand operators displayed the back page instead of the front page."--Ralph Otwell, Executive Vice President, Chicago Sun-Times.

Unknown to the world, Mr. Otwell rescued the plate from the refuse container that day. It has hung in his study for over forty years. He brought the plate to Jean Albano Gallery here in Chicago in 2006, during the first exhibition of Bill Mauldin's cartoons.

The estate of Bill Mauldin, in association with Jean Albano Gallery, is privileged to offer this limited edition prints. Abraham Lincoln Book Shop is proud to offer them here.

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For more Bill Mauldin, visit our Presidential Section.

	Price: $3,250.00

Best known for his brilliantly colored and energetic images, Neiman is one of the most popular and widely recognized American artists, having studied and then taught at the Art Institute, Chicago.

This work was initially commissioned as an oil painting, which is now housed in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL. It was based on a study of Lincoln photographic images and biographical literature and married to Neiman’s unique perspective. Neiman faithfully captures the strength and intensity which Lincoln exudes in Anthony Berger’s image taken at Brady’s Washington Gallery on Tuesday, February 9, 1864 (Ostendorf #91).

For this serigraph, twenty-six screens were meticulously hand-cut and each color individually applied, to faithfully capture the tonal values of the original work. Though vividly colored, there remains a 19th century feeling to this exceptional work.

	Price: $3,850,00

This colorful oil is a vignetted view of Ostendorf’s original art work for a dust jacket for Crissey’s book on the Speech. Delivered at the Illinois Republican state convention on 29 May 1865, the story goes that no one took full notes, even the hardened journalists, as the speech was so compelling!

Ostendorf spent his lifetime illustrating various moments in Lincoln’s life; here he vividly captures the fiery nature of the speech, about which observers later wrote. An unusually emotional rendering of Lincoln !

Excellent; colors bright, vivid, much more white in person.

	Price: $13,500.00

As with so many of Rockwell's works, this one was painted for the Saturday Evening Post magazine in the 10 Feb. 1962 issue (illustrating Elisia Bialik's article "Lincoln for the Defense"); the original oil is now in the Rockwell collection at The Old Corner House, Stockbridge, Mass.

Lincoln is portrayed here as defender of Duff Armstrong in the celebrated "almanac" murder trial (wherein he proved lack of moonlight would have prevented witnesses from clearly seeing what they claimed); he is shown coatless, in white trousers and ruffled shirt, suspenders loose, one hand holding almanac and spectacles, the other clenched in a fist atop a law book. The manacled client sits behind him in shadow, head by hands. A vital, dramatic image.

V.g. . This is the "truest" Lincoln Rockwell produced.

	Price: $8,850.00

Lincoln lived 14 years in Indiana. Here the young “Railsplitter” is in the field, reading a book he carried during work hours – Lincoln and his father famously fought over this practice.

Each example is a 15 color lithograph with a limited edition of 260 impressions on papier d’Arches.  35 impressions were reserved for the artist of which this is one.     This image was created by Norman Rockwell from his original oil painting commissioned by the Lincoln Mutual Savings Bank of Spokane, Washington.  The lithographs were pulled at Atelier Ettinger in New York during 1976.

	Price: $2,500.00

America 's best known print makers produced three versions of Lincoln 's death, the present one being the last – and most politically correct. Mary Lincoln was literally shown the door, where she is shown weeping, along with Tad and Clara Harris, who had been in the box when Lincoln was shot. Andrew Johnson, who had replaced General Halleck in the second version (though he reappears to the left), is here placed right up front – perhaps to symbolize a ordered presidential transition. The clock on the mantle shows the time of 7:22am , while Stanton, Welles, Colfax, and even Chase (who had never visited the room) look on.

The colors are fresh and, save for unobtrusive general foxing, there are no flaws to mar this handsome rendition.

	Price: $2,500.00

Period, original watercolor with a mourning border, of a freedmna mourning at Lincoln's Tomb, topped with an urn bearing a Lincoln image, below which is drawn "ABRAHAM LINCOLN OUR NATION HAS LOST ITS FATHER 1809-1865."

This "Schoolhouse" style folk art watercolor is on manila paper, matted and handsomely framed to 16 x 15 in.

A touching image with a wonderful use of colors.

Excellent.

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Bachman designed the allegorical figures of The Continents for the Pulitzer Building in New York . His most famous Lincoln work is a bronze standing figure in Minneapolis known as “The Congressman.” It is unique in that the head is by Bachman, but the body is an exact replica of the Augustus Saint Gaudens standing figure in Chicago.

This beardless head, patterned after the Minneapolis statue, was issued for the 1909 Centennial of Lincoln's birth. Bachman indeed captured the young Lincoln during his Illinois days as a lawyer and state legislature. It has great power and would dominate any room in which it would be displayed.

Bachman signed his work, but added a thump print as well.

Excellent condition.

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	Price: $8,500.00

Bachman used the same mold as for the bust above, but added his presidential beard. The warm toning of the terra cotta patina is quite pleasing, even for such a dramatic bust.

Again, Bachman signed his name and added an impression of his thumb.

Excellent condition.

	Price: $18,500.00

Modeled after Bissell’s life-sized Lincoln emancipation group in Edinburgh, Scotland, dedicated in 1893 and later replicated at Clermont, Iowa, c1903. Three desk-top versions of this full-figure Lincoln were subsequently produced by Bissell at the famous Gorham Company foundry of New York, this being the largest and most impressive of the three. This is only the third of this size that we have seen on the market in 34 years. Lincoln is shown holding the Emancipation Proclamation in his right hand, and the statuette’s large size allowed Bissell to incise that heading and Lincoln’s name on the “paper.” It displays well the sculptor’s knack for presenting his subjects in a compelling yet delicately accomplished manner.

With its rich, dark-brown patina, this striking, even heroic, statuette is remarkably stirring.

	Price: $3,500.00

Bissell, an army veteran, produced the first Lincoln sculpture erected outside the United States, the well-known (and copied) “Emancipation Group” (1893) in Edinburgh , Scotland .

This bust is an early to mid 20th century replica based on the Lincoln “Emancipator” head.

	Price: $3,900.00

Bronze by “lost wax” method

taken from an original bronze of c1911.

Reflecting his life-long admiration for Lincoln, his statue, "The Frontiersman," standing in Oahu, is a masterpiece; and his four "Heads of Lincoln," showing Lincoln from youth to president, grace the Ford's Theatre museum.

His other Lincoln works include "Lincoln at New Salem" at the historical site; "The Chicago Lincoln," recently restored and standing watch over Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood; and "Lincoln the Friendly Neighbor" in Berwyn, IL.

	Price: $3,500.00

Plaster; 13” high. According to Fairbanks ’ son, about 10 were made -- though this is the very first we have seen! Fairbanks was known for his Lincoln statues and busts, with four gracing Ford’s Theatre’s museum in Washington , DC .

	Price: $3,850.00

The obverse features a left bust of a bearded Lincoln. [A small mole and even some veins grace the image.] The reverse shows Lincoln’s tomb flanked by a winged Victory, her head bowed in sorrow; and two freedmen, one placing a palm frond on the tomb, the other holding a long rifle. Peeking out from behind are a train, ship, ballot box titled “Vote,” and a bale of cotton. Engraved below are the words, “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.” The workmanship is spectacular in its intricacy, and possessing great eye appeal. A lovely example of this rare and impressive medal -- aesthetically the most impressive of the many Lincoln medals and tokens. Mary Todd Lincoln received a gold version, now in the Library of Congress and once believed melted by a financially desperate widow.

Showing light wear only; excellent.

Bronze by “lost wax” method, taken from an original bronze of c1917. A beautiful patina makes this a warm bust for an office or library.

	Price: $6,500.00

	Price: $12,500.00

The full standing Lincoln is holding a facsimile signed Emancipation Proclamation, while the other hand grasps his lapel.

A most unusual feature is that the figure’s chest opens on small brass hinges to reveal an interior triptych, the central panel of which is a view based on Francis B. Carpenter’s famed engraving of Lincoln reading the Proclamation to his cabinet. On either side is a standing military figure: on the right is U.S. Grant, with a plumed hat and still with his long beard; on the left is Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, standing with hand in coat a la Napoleon. Considering its European origin, both Grant and Halleck are easily recognizable.

Dieppe, Franc , was the center for European trade with the Ivory Coast in the 18th century, and well known for its ivory carvings. Much of the decorative ivory from the 19th century is often attributed to Dieppe . This example – only the second of Lincoln we’ve encountered -- still bears a pleasing, soft patina.

	Price: $15,500.00

Bachmann placed Lincoln in the classical stance of the 19th century orator; Daniel Webster and Benjamin Disraeli were portrayed in this manner. The Victorian orator was taught in school to stand with one hand outstretched, palm up in appeal, while the other rests on a nearby table or stand.

Perhaps as little as two examples of this statue remain extant. This one was on display in the John D. Lippy “Lincoln Room” museum in the David Wills house, where Lincoln stayed while in Gettysburg to deliver his “Address.”

A unique and powerful piece, the first we've handled!

Excellent condition with a rich patina.

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	Price: $8,500.00

In 1860, several months before Lincoln won teh presidential election, Chicago sculptor Leonard Volk made the first bust of Abraham Lincoln from life, using his famous life mask of the Republican nominee.

Here he presents Lincoln in neo-classical fashion, “draped” in a Roman robe. Often reproduced, these original versions are of superior quality, and quite scarce.

Very light, hardly noticable mottling of enamel throughout; light surface chipping in rear is barelyi noticeable; expertly restored at the base.

A powerful piece! Stately and thoroughly 19th century.