[Rarebooks] fs: Sandburg's Lincoln, Signed 1sts
Back Creek Books
rock at backcreekbooks.com
Sat Aug 23 13:37:18 EDT 2008
Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 7844 ) Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967). ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS
(SIGNED, COMPLETE IN 4 VOLUMES).
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1939). First printings, Full cloth,
Octavos, over 2,500 pages, black & white photographs, cuts, facsimiles. Near
Fine, No dust jackets.
Sandburg's monument to Lincoln as War President. These volumes are
more historically accurate and less literary than "The Prairie Years," but
Sandburg still finds opportunities to hold readers spellbound with his
mastery of language. Volume I is SIGNED by Sandburg on half title. Each of
the four volumes is a first trade printing after the de luxe edition of 525
copies. See EICHER, #413; MONAGHAN, #3711; ANGLE, SOLB pp. 56-58; HOWES,
#S82; NEVINS, CWB Vol. II, p.87; MULLINS, UNION BOOKSHELF #80; etc.
Uniformly bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spines,
blind-stamped upper boards, and pale yellow topstains. Fore edges untrimmed.
All volumes show minor browning to endpapers along hinges. Volumes I-III
have faint scattered foxing to preliminaries and mild soil to bottom edges
of textblocks. Bindings show a few minor rubs to extremities. No prior
ownership marks, no cracked hinges. A handsome set. $500.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7844.jpg
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