THOMAS, Benjamin P. - Lincoln's New Salem

Springfield, The Abraham Lincoln Association, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Romaine Proctor. Small 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. xv, 128pp, (1p). Frontispiece, line drawings, map endpapers. Very good. Faintest edgewear. A tight and attractive later printing of this 1934 profile of the pioneer community and its residents. The half-title page is handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black ink: "For John G. Oien / with Kindest regards / Benjamin P. Thomas." Thomas (1902-56) was an American historian and author known for "Lincoln's New Salem" (1934) and mainly for "Abraham Lincoln" (1952), for many years the standard one-volume life of the president; upon learning of a cancer diagnosis he committed suicide. MONAGHAN 3456. .

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