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163 ● (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) [Maurer, Louis; artist?] The National Game. Three
“Outs” and One “Run.” Abraham Winning the Ball. Lithograph, 13 1/2 x 18 inches;
mat toning, minor edge wear, minor dampstaining, 4 short closed edge tears repaired with
tape, all less than an inch. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860 [4,000/6,000]
Lincoln is depicted as a victorious baseball player, holding a ball and a railroad tie as a bat, while
defeated candidates Bell, Douglas, and Breckinridge look on. 1860 was the year baseball really
stepped forward as the national sport, and this was Currier & Ives’s first baseball-themed print.
No copies in WorldCat. Peters, Currier & Ives, 1660 and pages 86-87; Reilly 1860-42.
164 ● (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) [Scripps, John Locke.] Tribune Tracts, No. 6: Life
of Abraham Lincoln. 32 pages. 8vo, self-wrappers; first and last pages detached, damp-
staining. New York: Horace Greeley, 1860 [200/300]
“Most authentic of Lincoln campaign biographies”—Howes 247a (“aa”). Monaghan 79n.
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