Author: WAGENKNECHT, Edward (editor)
Title: Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Work, and Character -- an Anthology of History and Biography, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Belles-Lettres
Description: New York, Creative Age Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt front board graphic. xvii, 661pp. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn and a tad rubbed. A tight and nice first edition of this unusual compilation that knows no bounds, with contributors including James G. Randall, Ida Tarbell, Carl Sandburg, Albert Beveridge, Robert Sherwood, Benjamin Thomas and a "Who's Who" cast of Lincoln writers both fiction and nonfiction. Among them is Edwin Markham, whose "Lincoln, the Man of the People" is found in this anthology. This volume bears a choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a turn-of-the-century sepia-tone portrait of Markham (5½" X 8½", same trim size as flyleaf) and affixed to the lower edge of this is the close of a letter (ca. 5½" X irregular 2") boldly penned in brown ink entirely in the poet's hand -- "Let me see you if possible. / Fraternally yours, / Edwin Markham." Markham (1852-1950) is best remembered for his 1899 social protest piece "The Man with the Hoe" (inspired by Millet's painting of the same name), which schoolchildren nationwide used to be required to memorize, although "Lincoln, the Man of the People" is almost as well known, a 1922 piece chosen by William Howard Taft to be read at the official opening of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, with 100,000 listeners spread out on the lawns and two million listeners on the live radio broadcast. .

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