Description
Limited edition of Lincoln At Home by David Herbert Donald, from the Thornwillow Press.
Octavo, 107pp. Publishers half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands with title in gilt on spine. Housed in publishers black cloth clamshell, title in gilt on spine. Original invoice from Thornwillow Press and letter from the publisher included. From a limited edition of 185 copies, this being number 35, signed by the author on the limitation page. A beautiful production from Thornwillow Press.
Comments: David Herbert Donald was an American historian and best known for his 1995 biography of President Abraham Lincoln, simply titled Lincoln. His biography of Lincoln is often considered the best single volume biography of the nation’s 16th president. Donald won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1961 for his work Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and again in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe.
