Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years (Abridged)
by Sandburg, Carl
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1929. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Signed by author on half title page. A Fair copy of the abridged edition of Sandburg's first Lincoln biography (originally two volumes). Book has edgewear, bumped corners, damp stains on covers, sunning to spine & covers, smudges & stains on covers & edges of the text block, toning to pages, multiple former owners' names in ink on the front endpaper, a full split at the front interior hinge (netting visible), a full split at the back interior hinge, and shelfwear.
Synopsis
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1926) by Carl Sandburg is a two-volume biography covered Lincoln’s life up to his move from Springfield to Washington to become the President of the United States. Sandburg had planned to stop writing about Lincoln after the publication of The Prairie Years, but he became engaged in Lincoln’s life and for the next thirteen years he researched and wrote about the President’s last four years. In 1939, Sandburg published the second part of the biography, the four-volume Pulitzer-Prize winning Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 606841
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years (Abridged)
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, and Company
- Date Published
- 1929
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- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Fair
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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