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Special Announcements

M. Sylvia CastleDecember 15, 2025

Holiday Hours

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. will be closing at 2pm on Wednesday, December 24th. The book shop is closed on Thursday, December 25th. We will resume regular business hours (10am-6pm) on Friday, December 26th. The book shop will be closing at ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminSeptember 10, 2024

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

UPDATE: Our own Bjorn Skaptason visited the Iannelli bust in person. Watch him talk about it! UPDATE: The bust is completed and installed in Paris! Read about the unveiling ceremony. UPDATE: Thanks to Judy Barclay and the Paris-Chicago Sister City Committee the ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminJune 3, 2023

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Richard Robert Donnelley opened his Chicago printing company in 1864. In 1870, he changed the name to Lakeside Printing and Publishing Company. Rising from the ashes of the 1871 fire, by 1901 they moved into their own building. Located in ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 30, 2017

Memorial Day at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery

Yesterday was Memorial Day. The usual story about it's origin is that the holiday was started by Union General John Logan. Logan was commander-in-chief of a Union veterans’ organization called the Grand Army of the Republic. Logan issued a decree establishing ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 3, 2017

Lincoln’s Journey Home

On this date 152 years ago Lincoln's body was lying in state here in Chicago. Throughout the day-at a rate of 7,000 per hour-mourners filed past the casket paying their final respects to President Lincoln. That evening, the Lincoln Funeral ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 16, 2016

Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: A History, by President Lincoln’s private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, stands even today as the most massive single work ever written on the sixteenth president. The publication of the ten-volume set by the Century Company in ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 1, 2016

Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life

Most of us encounter the influential short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge in our high school literature classes. Lit teachers like to assign Ambrose Bierce’s haunting tale of psychological terror because of its innovative use of plot devices, ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminFebruary 10, 2016

James G. Randall and his Essential Lincoln Volumes

10 February 2016 James Garfield Randall was born in 1881, and named for the man who was then president of the United States. President Garfield, of course, did not survive the year, but his namesake lived to become, perhaps, the greatest ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminDecember 17, 2015

New Presidential & New Lincoln Bibliographies

We are excited to share our Presidential Book Shelf and Essential Lincoln Book Shelf Bibliographies, updated for 2015. The body of work for both subjects can be daunting and overwhelming. These tools are designed to help you know what to read ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 6, 2015

Lincoln’s Chicago Funeral Commemoration Ceremony

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop staged the only Commemoration Ceremony for the Sesquicentennial of Lincoln's Chicago Funeral. We worked closely with the City of Chicago and the alderman's office in order th stage it at the exact location where the funeral train ... Read More

Holiday Hours

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Memorial Day at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery

Lincoln’s Journey Home

Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln

Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life

James G. Randall and his Essential Lincoln Volumes

New Presidential & New Lincoln Bibliographies

Lincoln’s Chicago Funeral Commemoration Ceremony

New Acquisitions

Francis Trevelyan Miller, ed., The Photographic ...

Jeff Shaara, To The Last Man, ...

James Robertson, After the Civil War. ...

Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, ...

Lincoln Home, Carte de Visite

Abraham Lincoln 1864 Campaign Envelope

John Y. Simon & Barbara Hughett, ...

(Thomas Nast) Columbia’s Grief, Carte de ...

Mary Lincoln Albumen Carte de Visite

Washington & Lincoln, The Apotheosis, Carte ...