Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 1st Edition, Signed

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Offering Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln: The War Years in the original 1st trade edition, identified by the statement “FIRST EDITION / AFTER PRINTING 525 DE LUXE COPIES” on the copyright page.

Sandburg’s monumental work, the one full biography of the 20th Century most associated with Abraham Lincoln. Sandburg collected a huge amount of information for this biography which was praised for presenting a more folksy, “real” Lincoln, not a cold statue. A beautifully written, poetic work by the great poet and historian of the 20th Century.

After writing the monumental two-volume Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years in the 1920’s Sandburg did not intend to continue his story into the Civil War. Yet such was the enormous popularity of his work, and such was his continued fascination with his subject that Sandburg felt compelled to take up his pen again. The publication of The War Years after more than a decade of waiting resulted in a phenomenon of public adoration for the “common man” Lincoln that Sandburg understood so well.

A clean set. Volume 1 is slightly shaken but not cracked. All others are very good condition. Slip case is split (as is common) and lightly blistered. The lid to the slipcase is still present and in very good condition, which is uncommon. A very nice set, signed.

A wonderful gift!

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939. 1st trade edition, 4 volumes, frontispieces, illustration.