[Rarebooks] fs: Sandburg's Lincoln, 6 vols., slipcase

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 11218 )  Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967). ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS 
[AND] ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS (COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES).
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1926-1939). Full cloth, Octavos, 
nearly 3,500 pages, black and white photographs, drawings, maps, facsimiles. 
Fine in a very good slipcase, No dust jackets.
      Sandburg's masterpiece on the life of Lincoln. There are some minor 
inaccuracies here, and Sandburg occasionally used his imagination to augment 
his historical research--particularly in "The Prairie Years"--but no other 
biographer has yet matched Sandburg's success at making Lincoln live again 
in the mind of the reader. See ANGLE, SOLB, p. 49, pp. 56-58; MONAGHAN 
#2877, #3711; EICHER, #413; HOWES, #S82; NEVINS, CWB Vol. II, p.87; MULLINS, 
UNION BOOKSHELF #80; etc. All six volumes are uniformly bound in dark blue 
cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spines and yellow topstains. Prior owner 
bookplate neatly placed on front pastedown of each volume. No significant 
wear to volumes. Slipcase has some wear and rubs to edges....... $100.00
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Rock
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