The Lincoln Papers: The Story of the Collection with Selections to July 4, 1861

Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1948

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Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA

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Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket (Volume I only), slipcase with wraparound paper pictorial label. xvii, 332pp; pp. 333-681pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Very good/good only. Both bindings rubbed on spines, else tight and internally fine; slipcase is complete and strong but quite age toned, rubbed and edgeworn. Nice first edition of this significant set -- and with choice autograph addition: Tipped to first volume front flyleaf is a Typed Noted Signed from Mearns (1899-1981; Library of Congress's manuscript division chief), 1p, 8½" X 11", Washington, DC, 2 December 1955. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. Lovely note on "Library of Congress" letterhead in which Mearns informs this New York Civil War Round Table' office where to contact historian Josephine Cobb, most likely to review a book for the newsletter of which Gates served as long-time editor. Boldly signed in full. Inner flyleaf of both volumes bears 1962 ownership signature and "From the Collection of The Lincoln Library of Norman H. Ziel" inkstamp.…

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Title
The Lincoln Papers: The Story of the Collection with Selections to July 4, 1861
Author
MEARNS, David
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Garden City
Publication year
1948
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Dust Jacket Included
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Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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