2025-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Attempted Assassination of President Garfield. Life of the President and of Guiteau the Assassin." 80p. quarto, published by Barclay & Co., Philadelphia, 1881, with reprinting of the letter from Guiteau to General Sherman stating that he had "just shot the President. I shot him several times...His death was a political necessity..." woodblock engraving of Garfield shortly after the shooting, high detailed accounts of the event and its aftermath. VG... plus; "The Life and Assassination of President Garfield Together with the Life of Guiteau, the Assassin." 113p. quarto, Philadelphia, published by Barclay & Co., 1881, "President Garfield's War Record and Life in Full. From Canal-boy to the First Office in the Gift of the People." with excellent content on the assassination and Garfield's struggle to cling to life, with engravings, and biography on the 'coward' Guiteau. With mourning borders. VG.....plus; Funeral program "Memorial Services in Honor of our Late President, James Abram Garfield, Tabernacle Church, Salem, October 2nd, 1881," 4p. small octavo, split at spine, else VG. (3 items) The James A. Garfield assassination took place in Washington, DC on July 2, 1881. James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 a.m., less than four months after taking office as the twentieth President of the United States. Garfield died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881, the second of four Presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln and preceding William McKinley and John F Kennedy. Chester Arthur succeeded Garfield as President. Provenance, HCA 1999.
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