Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.
Harcourt, Brace, [1939].
Price: $2,250.00
About the item
First Edition, 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. xxxi, 660pp; xii, 655pp; xiii, 673pp; xii, 515pp. 4 vols. Large, thick 8vo. Gilt buckram, leather spine labels, t.e.g., others untrimmed. a few minor rubs to labels, but a very good or better set, without slipcases.
Item #317129
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.
