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Carl Sandburg

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

1939

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Four of six volumes of the first Edition of Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the Civil War years.

  • Carl Sandburg (American).
  • One of 525 copies on rag paper.
  • Numbered and signed by the author. 
  • Illustrated with 414 half-tones from photographs and 249 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents.
  • New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Company, [1939].
  • xxxi, 660pp; xii, 655pp; xiii, 673pp; xii, 515pp. 4 vols.
  • Large, thick 8vo.
  • Gilt buckram, leather spine labels, t.e.g., others untrimmed.


The poet's Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel to THE PRAIRIE YEARS. In his long and distinguished career as a historian and poet, Sandburg won three Pulitzer Prizes in 1919, 1940 and 1951. He also received the Robert Frost medal in 1952 and a Grammy for Best Performance in the Documentary or Spoken Word category in 1959.

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A few minor rubs to labels, but a very good or better set, without slipcases.



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Signed, First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Americana, Politics, Military

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