Author: NEVINS, Allan, and Stone, Irving (editors)
Title: Lincoln: A Contemporary Portrait
Description: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 226pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket wear. A tight and attractive first edition. Fun autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a 5¼" X 3½" heavy grey stock card signed boldly by Stone in blue marker and dated December 1988. Laid in is the perfect bookmark -- the original transmittal envelope for this signature, cancelled in Marina del Rey, California on 15 December 1988. Notes front jacket panel, "Twelve modern studies in reappraisal of the man and the company he kept" -- contributors include Jay Monaghan, Andrew Rolle, Fawn Brodie, Harold Hyman, Norman Corwin, Justin Turner, Marianne Moore and other notables. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln


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