Description
Octavo, in four volumes, xxxi, 660pp; xii, 655pp; xiii, 673pp; xii, 515pp. Brown cloth, gilt title over maroon print on spine, signature of A.Lincoln in gilt on cover. Top edge gilt, uncut edges. Previous owners gift inscription on front free endpaper of Volume I. Housed in archival plastic dust jackets. Lacking slipcase, which is common. Signed by author Carl Sandburg on limitation page, this being number 267 of 525. Limitation reads: “The First Edition of Abraham Lincoln: The War Years is limited to 525 Copies on all rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 500 are for sale. This is number 267.” Howes S82.
Comments: The War Years were the best selling volumes of Carl Sandburg’s landmark series on President Abraham Lincoln. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1940 for The War Years.
