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Special Announcements

M. Sylvia CastleOctober 21, 2024

2024 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

The 46th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair opens on Friday, November 8. We have complimentary tickets to the Friday Opening Night festivities. If you'd like to attend, please email the book shop and provide your name and mailing address. There ... Read More

Special Announcements

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

Special Announcements

albs_SUPAdminOctober 10, 2023

The Latest Book List July 2024

We endeavor to offer a new Book List every month, depending on our workload in the shop. The link to the latest list is below. The Catalogs are below the Book List. Below that, you will find our Bibliographies. When ordering, ... 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_SUPAdminFebruary 6, 2018

Quoting Lincoln… or Not…

Abraham Lincoln is one of the world's most frequent victims of misattributed and inaccurate quotes. From the popular and folksy "Whatever you are, be a good one"--probably paraphrased and usually attributed to William Makepeace Thackery--to President George H. W. Bush's repeat ... Read More

Margin Notes

albs_SUPAdminJanuary 4, 2018

Carl Sandburg: Poet, Music Anthropologist, Lincoln Biographer

January 6th marks the 140th Anniversary of Carl Sandburg's birth. A true 20th Century Renaissance Man, among Sandburg's accomplishments is bringing Lincoln to life for many early 20th Century Americans in The Prairie Years and The War Years. Born in 1878, ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminOctober 8, 2017

Lincoln’s Fly

This morning the media is all "abuzz" about a certain interloper to last night's vice presidential debate. Although much less common than cats on a playing field, the fly is no stranger to photobombing politicians. Even Abraham Lincoln was not exempt. ... 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_SUPAdminMay 1, 2017

Block Museum Receives Steichen Gift

Followers of Carl Sandburg and his family will be happy to know that Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art has just received a major gift of Edward Steichen's photographs. These 44 photographs are a gift from Richard and Jackie Hollander. These ... Read More

2024 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

The Latest Book List July 2024

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Quoting Lincoln… or Not…

Carl Sandburg: Poet, Music Anthropologist, Lincoln Biographer

Lincoln’s Fly

Memorial Day at Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery

Lincoln’s Journey Home

Block Museum Receives Steichen Gift

New Acquisitions

Henry J. Haynie, The Nineteenth Illinois, ...

Milo Milton Quaife, ed., The Truth ...

David E. Long, The Jewel of ...

George B. McClellan, Manual of Bayonet ...

Thomas Harris, Assassination of Lincoln, 1st ...

Elmer Ellsworth, Manual of Arms for ...

David Rubenstein, Abraham Lincoln: His Life ...

John Melvin Williams, “The Eagle Regiment,” ...

The Daily Citizen, Original Issue

Thomas A. Davies, Thomas A. Davies ...