Five (5) Civil War related biography and autobiography books. 1st-3rd items: THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Tenth Edition, Vol. I-III, by Issac N. Arnold, published by A. C. McClure and Company, Chicago, 1906. Hardcover octavos, 894 top gilt edged total pages including three steel engraved frontispieces with tissue paper guards and additional full page illustrations, hardbound in black leather with gilt blindstamped covers and spines with gilt lettering, five raised hubs, marbled end papers. Ex libris labels to interior of front covers. Approximately 8 1/2" H x 6" W x 1 1/4" D. 4th-5th items: PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT, Vol. I- II, published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1885-86. Hardcover octavos, 1,231 total marble edged pages, including engraved frontispieces with tissue paper guards, additional illustrations, maps, a tipped-in facsimile of Civil War era letters dated 1862, and a tipped-in facsimile of an Appomattox Courthouse surrender document, hardbound in green cloth, covers with gilt blind stamping, gilt lettering to spine, floral wallpaper end papers. Ex libris labels to interior of front covers. Approximately 9 3/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 2" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee, by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: 1st-3rd items: Covers in overall good condition with light wear to leather, corner slightly bumped. Front cover of Volume I is partially separated from spine. Pages with toning, few pencil inscriptions from previous owners, Volume I with typed label partially pasted to front end paper. 4th-5th items: Covers with scuffs, shelf wear, light staining, corners bumped. Pages in overall good condition with toning, few pencil inscriptions. 8 3/4" tear to facsimile of war letters, two tears, largest 1 3/4", to Appomattox Courthouse surrender document facsimile.