Author: MEARNS, DAVID C.; CARL SANDBURG (INTRO)
Title: The Lincoln Papers (Two Volumes, Complete): The Story of the Collection with Selections to July 4, 1861
Description: Garden City, Long Island, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full gray cloth, gilt lettering on brown panels on spines, fore-edges deckle, brown endpapers. Illustrated in B&W with ten reproductions on glossy stock. Shortly after Lincoln's death , all of the papers which had accumulated in his office during his Presidency and others brought with him from Springfield were removed from the White House by his son. Donated to the Library of Congress, these papers were not released to the public until 1947 as the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection. In these two volumes David C. Mearns, Director of the Reference Department at the Library of Congress, tells the history of the collection and also publishes more than 500 items selected from the collection. Mearns adds notes to the documents. Introduction by Carl Sandburg.. Both volumes are in virtually perfect condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The dust jacket for Volume II is chipped along the edges and at the corners. Volume I has no dust jacket. FINE/GOOD. The Robert Todd Lincoln Collection Series. B&W Reproductions. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvii, 332; (viii), 333-681 pp. Fine in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Catalog; Library of Congress; Robert Todd Lincoln; Collections; American History; Us Presidents; History Catalogs
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Title: The Lincoln Papers (Two Volumes, Complete): The Story of the Collection with Selections to July 4, 1861
Description: Garden City, Long Island, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full gray cloth, gilt lettering on brown panels on spines, fore-edges deckle, brown endpapers. Illustrated in B&W with ten reproductions on glossy stock. Shortly after Lincoln's death , all of the papers which had accumulated in his office during his Presidency and others brought with him from Springfield were removed from the White House by his son. Donated to the Library of Congress, these papers were not released to the public until 1947 as the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection. In these two volumes David C. Mearns, Director of the Reference Department at the Library of Congress, tells the history of the collection and also publishes more than 500 items selected from the collection. Mearns adds notes to the documents. Introduction by Carl Sandburg.. Both volumes are in virtually perfect condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The dust jacket for Volume II is chipped along the edges and at the corners. Volume I has no dust jacket. FINE/GOOD. The Robert Todd Lincoln Collection Series. B&W Reproductions. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvii, 332; (viii), 333-681 pp. Fine in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Catalog; Library of Congress; Robert Todd Lincoln; Collections; American History; Us Presidents; History Catalogs
Price: US$ 60.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 28025
- Book number: 28025
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