Lincoln Delivers His Second Inaugural Address, 1865

Published for exclusive distribution, 1973. Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition. This is number 4 of fifty copies printed for distribution to the friends of Louis and Lena Braverman. Top page edges unopened, fine in an about fine slipcase. The Civil War weary, but tenacious President made his speech a little more than a month before his assassination. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Scarce.