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• Lincoln: "Como yo no Quiero Ser Esclavo, Tampoco Quiero Ser Amo" (in Spanish; ca. 1959), by United States Information Service, illust. by Daniel Núñez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lincoln Story Book: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1907), ed. by Henry Llewellyn Williams
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• He Knew Lincoln (New York: The McClure Co., 1908), by Ida M. Tarbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• He Knew Lincoln, and Other Billy Brown Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Ida M. Tarbell (Gutenberg text)
• How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time, by Abram J. Dittenhoefer (HTML with commentary at everythinglincoln.com)
• The Lincoln Story Book: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form, ed. by Henry Llewellyn Williams (Gutenberg text)
• Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller, by Alexander K. McClure (Gutenberg text)
• Wit and Humor of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Shrewesbury Pub. Co., c1916), by Carleton B. Case (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• He knew Lincoln (Doubleday, Page, 1909), by Ida M. Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• She knew Lincoln (The author, 1930), by Esther May Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (Edmund D. Brooks, 1929), by Thomas Lowry and Carl Sandburg Collections (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Helga Sandburg Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of the last year of President Lincoln's life. (The Pioneer press company, 1885), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln in story; the life of the martyr-president told in authenticated anecdotes (D. Appleton and co., 1901), by S. G. Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories; a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller. (The Educational company, 1901), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House stories, war stories, miscellaneous stories (Rhodes & McClure, 1879), by Abraham Lincoln and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories. Including early life stories, professional life stories, White House stories, war stories, miscellaneous stories. (Rhodes & McClure, 1887), by Abraham Lincoln and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln, by some men who knew him; being personal recollections of Judge Owen T. Reeves, Hon. James S. Ewing, Col. Richard P. Morgan, Judge Franklin Blades, John W. Bunn (Americana House, 1950), by Paul M. Angle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months at the White House with Lincoln. (Century House, 1961), by F. B. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen; reminiscences of the Civil War with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi Valley (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Eaton and Ethel Osgood Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. : The story of a picture (Hurd and Houghton, 1866), by F. B. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner life of Abraham Lincoln. Six months at the White House. (Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by F. B. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends, selected from all authentic sources, and fitted together in order, forming his complete life history (The J.C. Winston co., 1908), by Wayne Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a visit to California. Two lectures. (Printed by J. P. Morton and co., 1884), by Joshua F. Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's own stories (Harper & brothers, 1912), by Anthony Gross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lincoln's own stories. (Garden City Pub. Co., 1912), by Anthony Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hampton Roads conference : a refutation of the statement that Mr. Lincoln said if union was written at the top the southern commissioners might fill in the balance (s.n., 1917), by Julian Shakespeare Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• When Lincoln kissed me; a story of the Wilderness campaign (The Abingdon press, 1914), by Henry E. Wing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes from hospital and White House. A record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy's experience in war-times (D. Lothrop and company, 1884), by Anna L. Boyden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wit and humor of Abraham Lincoln : gathered from authentic sources (Shrewesbury Pub. Co., 1924), by Carleton B. Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best Lincoln stories, tersely told (Donohue Brothers, 1898), by James Ernst Gallaher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's birthday : a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings (Dodd, Mead and company, 1925), by Robert Haven Schauffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Life, speeches and anecdotes. (The Old Greek Press, 1907), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flashlights of Abraham Lincoln (Angelus Pub. Co., 1921), by Julia Mygatt Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• His talk with Lincoln; being a letter written by James M. Stradling (The Riverside Press, 1922), by Matthew Stradling and Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's birthday; a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909), by Robert Haven Schauffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of Lincoln; the soul of the man as revealed in story and anecdote (G.W. Jacobs & company, 1915), by Wayne Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln, by some men who knew him; being personal recollections of Judge Owen T. Reeves, Hon. James S. Ewing, Col. Richard P. Morgan, Judge Franklin Blades, John W. Bunn (Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co., 1910), by John W. Bunn, Franklin Blades, Richard Price Morgan, James Stevenson Ewing, and Owen Thornton Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• He knew Lincoln, and other Billy Brown stories (The Macmillan company, 1922), by Ida M. Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Lincoln (Press of the Pioneers, 1934), by Thomas D. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotal Lincoln (Thompson & Thomas, 1900), by Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln and Lee; a patriotic story (Model printing co., 1922), by Smith D. Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Footprints of Abraham Lincoln; presenting many interesting facts, reminiscences and illustrations, never before published (The Otterbein Press, 1909), by J. T. Hobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner life of Abraham Lincoln : Six months at the White House (Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by F. B. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including stories of Lincoln's early life, stories of Lincoln as a lawyer, presidential incidents, stories of the war, etc., etc. (Thompson & Thomas, 1900), by Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• He knew Lincoln (Macmillan, 1919), by Ida M. Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Builder of Lincoln's home: Page Eaton. (Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1962), by Wayne Calhoun Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Lincoln laughed (Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Russell Herman Conwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories. (Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co., 1889), by J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• He knew Lincoln (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907), by Ida M. Tarbell, Blendon Campbell, Jay Hambidge, McClure Press, and Phillips & Co McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories; a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (International Publishing Company, 1901), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Abe's jokes : fresh from Abraham's bosom, containing all iis [sic] issues, excepting the "greenbacks," to call in some of which this work is issued. (T.R. Dawley, 1864), by T. R. Dawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's life, stories, and speeches. (Thompson & Thomas, 1902), by Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
• How we elected Lincoln personal recollections of Lincoln and men of his time (Harper & Bros., 1916), by Abram Jesse Dittenhoefer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln and Lee a patriotic story (s.n., 1922), by Smith Dunbar Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln lessons for today (Duffield, 1921), by Garrett Newkirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friends with Lincoln in the White House ([s.n.], 1912), by Nellie Blessing Eyster and Henry Watson Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln, personal reminiscences of the martyred President (Grand army hall and memorial association, 1908), by William Jayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated (Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., 1898), by Abraham Lincoln and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln, tributes from his associates, reminiscences of soldiers, statesmen and citizens (Clarke Sales Co., 1895), by William Hayes Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House stories, war stories, miscellaneous stories (Rhodes & McClure, 1888), by Abraham Lincoln and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best Lincoln stories tersely told (M.A. Donohue & Co., 1898), by J. E. Gallaher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fra : (not for mummies) a journal of affirmation. February [1909], vol. 2, no. 5. (Elbert Hubbard, Editor and Publisher, 1909), by Elbert Hubbard, Clark E. Carr, Robert Green Ingersoll, and Alice Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friends with Lincoln in the White House : adapted from Nellie Blessing-Eyster's story ([s.n.], 1913), by Henry Watson Wilbur and Nellie Blessing Eyster (page images at HathiTrust)
• He knew Lincoln. (McClure Co., 1908), by Ida M. Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner life of Abraham Lincoln : six months at the White House (Hurd and Houghton, 1870), by F. B. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln as a boy knew him. (The Century Co., 1913), by John Langdon Kaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's birthday, 1907. Personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln; an address (s.n., 1907), by William Jayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's life, stories, and speeches. Letters and speeches chronologically arr. (J.R. Stanton Co., 1902), by Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (Privately printed for Beatrice M. Lowry and her friends, 1910), by Thomas Lowry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln (Kansas City sun, 1909), by Ira Haworth and William Jennings Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's own stories (Garden City Pub. Co., 1926), by Anthony Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories"; "professional life stories"; "White House incidents"; "war reminiscences" ; Also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 (Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., 1903), by Abraham Lincoln and James Baird McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Abe" Lincoln's anecdotes and stories; a collection of the best stories told by Lincoln, which made him famous as America's best story teller (The Mutual Book Company, 1908), by R. D. Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, stories, and speeches of Abraham Lincoln ; a compilation of Lincoln's most remarkable utterances, with a sketch of his life. (G.M. HIll Company, 1901), by Paul Selby and Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Abe's jokes, fresh from Abraham's bosom, containing all iis ̈ø̈ issues, excepting the "greenbacks," to call in some of which, this work is issued (T.R. Dawley, 1864), by T. R. Dawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humorous and pathetic stories of Abraham Lincoln. (The Lincoln Publishing Company, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln in story; the life of the martyr-president told in authenticated anecdotes (D. Appleton and company, 1909), by S. G. Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories. ([Chicago?], 1904), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gospel of Lincoln (The Lincoln Agricultural and Art Society of America, 1917), by Lincoln Agricultural and Art Society of America and George Edward Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln in story: the life of the martyr-president told in authenticated anecdotes (Maruzen kabushiki kaisha (Z. P. Maruya & co., ltd.), 1904), by S. G. Pratt, P. L., and P. L. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abraham Lincoln (Grand army hall and memorial association, 1908), by William Jayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln day entertainments; recitations, plays, dialogues, drills, tableaux, pantomimes, quotations, songs, tributes, stories, facts (A. Flanagan company, 1908), by Joseph Charles Sindelar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Footprints of Abraham Lincoln; presenting many interesting facts, reminiscences and illustrations (The Otterbein press, 1909), by J. T. Hobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Abe's jokes. (T. R. Dawley, 1864), by Thomas R. Dawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lincoln story-calendar, 1910. (Franklin Print. Co., 1909), by Wayne Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotal Lincoln; speeches, stories and yarns of the "Immortal Abe," including stories of Lincoln's early life, stories of Lincoln as a lawyer (Thompson & Thomas, 1900), by Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abe Lincoln's jokes : wit and humor, yarns and stories, history--chronology, gathered from authentic sources. (M. Stein, 1963), by Max Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's birthday; a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1918), by Robert Haven Schauffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal reminiscences, 1840-1890 (Croscup & co., 1893), by Lucius Eugene Chittenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln : the story of a picture (Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by F. B. Carpenter, H.O. Houghton & Company, and Hurd & Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Abe's jokes : fresh from Abraham's bosom : containing all iis [sic] issues, excepting the "greenbacks," to call in some of which, this work is issued. (T. R. Dawley, 1864), by T. R. Dawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abe Lincoln's jokes : wit and humor, yarns and stories, history [and] chronology, gathered from authentic sources (Stein, 1943), by Max Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• According to Lincoln (Economics Press, inc., 1957), by Richard Christner (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Evening with Lincoln. (Sherwin Cody School of English, 1927), by Abraham Lincoln and Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• He knew Lincoln : Captain Cummings recollections. (Reed Booklets, 1935), by William Wasson and John B. Rivard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jokes told by Lincoln (Sangamon Press, 1960), by Abraham Lincoln, Hallie H. Holt, and Illinois State Historical Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Lincoln as I knew him" (Wittenberg College?, 1927), by Joseph Warren Keifer, Ohio) WCSO (Radio station : Springfield, and Wittenberg University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln, Captain Cummings' recollections of "Honest Abe" (Reed Pub. Co., 1931), by William Wasson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln talks : a biography in anecdote (Halcyon House, 1941), by Emanuel Hertz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little known Lincoln episodes. (Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., 1937), by Louis Austin Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little known Lincoln episodes. (The Lincoln national life insurance co., 1934), by Louis Austin Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little known Lincoln humor (Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., 1937), by Louis Austin Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The other White House; an illustration of the unreliability of history concerning Abraham Lincoln. ([Washington, D. C., 1926), by Carman Louis D. (Louis Dale) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic story of the Lincoln Memorial (The author], 1923), by Smith D. Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• He watched Lincoln write his name : or, The boy who saw Abraham Lincoln. (National W.C.T.U. Pub. House, 1927), by Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Dept. of Scientific Temperance Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's life, stories and speeches. Letters and speeches chronologically arranged. (Stanton and Van Vilet Co., 1902), by Paul Selby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lincoln's own stories (Garden City Pub., 1912), by Anthony Gross and Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (Western W. Wilson, 1901), by Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back there in 5̀8. (The Phillips Publishing Company, 1907), by Ida M. Tarbell and Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abe Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller ([Philadelphia?], 1901), by Abraham Lincoln and Alexander K. McClure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The inner life of Abraham Lincoln. Six months at the White House. (Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by F. B. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. ... (Rhodes & McClure, 1894), by Abraham Lincoln and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's stories and speeches. (Books, Inc., 1920), by Abraham Lincoln and Edward Frank Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Friends with Lincoln in the White House : adapted from Nellie Blessing-Eyster's story ([publisher not identified], 1912), by Henry Watson Wilbur, Nellie Blessing Eyster, and Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln, from his own words and contemporary accounts. ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1956), by Roy Edgar Appleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lincoln in story: the life of the martyr-president told in authenticated anecdotes (Maruzen kabushiki kaisha (Z.P. Maruya & Co., Ltd.), 1904), by Silas Gamaliel Pratt and P. L. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Humorous and pathetic tales of Abraham Lincoln : a collection of anecdotes and stories told by and of President Lincoln, many of them heretofore unpublished. (Lincoln publishing co., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the mass Temperance Convention for the state of Massachusetts, held at Tremont Temple, in Boston ... March 8, 1863. (Wright & Potter, 1863), by Massachusetts Temperance Convention (1863 : Boston) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's birthday; a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings (Dodd, 1927), by Robert Haven Schauffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner life of Abraham Lincoln : Six months at the White House, by F. B. Carpenter (Gutenberg ebook)
• How we elected Lincoln : personal recollections of Lincoln and men of his time, by Abram J. Dittenhoefer, ed. by Julius Chambers (Gutenberg ebook)
• He Knew Lincoln, by Ida M. Tarbell, illust. by Blendon Campbell and Jay Hambidge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Best Lincoln stories, tersely told, by J. E. Gallaher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Footprints of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting many interesting facts, reminiscences and illustrations never before published, by J. T. Hobson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel: The True Story, by L. E. Chittenden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lincoln Day Entertainments: Recitations, Plays, Dialogues, Drills, Tableaux, Pantomimes, Quotations, Songs, Tributes, Stories, Facts, ed. by Joseph C. Sindelar (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories: A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story Teller, ed. by R. D. Wordsworth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lincolniana; Or, The Humors of Uncle Abe, by Andrew Adderup (Gutenberg ebook)
• Why Lincoln Laughed, by Russell H. Conwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lincoln's Birthday : a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings, ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler (Gutenberg ebook)

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