Description
Presentation binding of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg, published in 1926.
Thick octavo, [two volumes], xvi, 480pp, [2]; vi, 482pp, [2]. Three quarter blue morocco, blue silk boards, title in gilt on the spine with embellishments. Top edge gilt. Housed in custom blue cloth slipcase. Stated “Fifth Printing, November, 1926” on the copyright page. Light wear to hinges of both volumes, both stable. Scattered foxing in both volumes. Photographic frontispiece portraits in each volume.
Complete with 105 photographic plates, maps, woodcuts and illustrations. (Monaghan, 2877)
An attractive work.
This work would be followed by Carl Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize winning four volume set called Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939-1941).
