Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

41 c   (EPHEMERA.) Group of playbills and other ephemera relating to dramatic depictions of Lincoln. 12 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1923-87 [300/400] Television, film and radio: Kinoy. Lincoln, from the Novel by Gore Vidal. Mimeograph screenplay for the television adaptation, 14 September 1987 * [Abe Lincoln’s Story.] Printed script by the Mutual Broadcasting System, [20] pages with illustrated wrappers. Np, [1944] * “The Film Authority: Wid’s Weekly,” 18 August 1923 issue with cover story on George A. Billings starring in the silent film “The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln” * “Dupont Presents the Cavalcade of America, with Raymond Massey in Abraham Lincoln by Robert E. Sherwood.” Printed radio script, 29, [3] pages, in original mailing envelope. Np, 1940 * An issue of the magazine Photoplay Studies devoted to the D.W. Griffith production “Abraham Lincoln,” 1940. Theatrical: “The Playbill for the Plymouth Theatre,” Robert Sherwood’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” New York, circa 1939 * Playbill for “Prologue to Glory,” New Salem (Illinois) State Park, 1954 * Playbill for “The Rivalry,” based on the Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1959 * Chicago Stagebill for the same, circa 1940 * Playbill for the 3rd annual performance for the same by the Abe Lincoln Players, Illinois, circa 1940s * Handbill for the same at Plymouth Theatre in New York, [1939] * and a printed script by Betty Smith, “The Boy, Abe,” Boston, MA: Baker’s Plays, [1944]. 42 c   (EPHEMERA.) Group of Stephen Douglas items in various media. 7 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1860-62 and undated [300/400] Johnson, Fry & Co. “S.A. Douglass, Likeness from the Latest Photograph.” Engraving, 10 1 / 2 x 7 1 / 2 inches. New York, 1862 * Pair of engravings from Vanity Fair, 1860: “The Modern Brutus” and “Aminadab Sleek at Jones’ Wood” * Carte-de-visite-sized engraving of Mrs. S.A. Douglas by Prang * Uncaptioned carte-de-visite of Douglas * Advertising carte-de-visite by E.O. Heerman’s of Scranton, PA featuring images of Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson, and Stephen Douglas * Carte-de-visite by J. Carbutt of the Douglas monument by L.W. Volk. 41