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I saw online that reprints are available of the govt's study of the restoration of the House Where Lincoln Died, back in the 1950's. This is a great publication. Original copies of it are hard to come by (Joan Chaconas owns one!) The orig. has a couple of fold-outs. I'm sure the reprints simply reduced those pages in size. I don't think this reprint is difficult to come by. I think the best short-cut to locating the reprints is on ABebooks.com. Just type in the Hs W L Died (in full, of cs.) and scroll passed all the peripheral publications like flyers and you'll see it. I think it's a "print on demand." But you have to be careful of those POD's, sometimes the quality of the reproduction stinks, as it does for the one by Dr. Leale, "Lincoln's Last Hours." The preface always states "From the best available copy," but I can't understand why that should be a problem.