Author: LORANT, Stefan
Title: Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter grey cloth with red spine lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 304pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Small black mark on top page edges; a trifle musty; jacket edgeworn, with a few archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears -- but complete and overall fairly attractive. Revised and enlarged edition, quite tight and nice, of this 1952 text, itself a reworking of Lorant's 1941 "Lincoln: His Life in Photographs." Tipped to the front flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card boldly signed by Lorant in black ballpoint, above which he adds "Autograph requested / by Mr Richard C. Laade" and dates it 2 March 1988. Laid in is the original transmittal envelope. Lorant (1901-97) was a Hungarian-born pioneering photojournalist who, as editor of the "Munich Illustrated Press," was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1933 for using photographs to make political commentary; he fled to England and in 1940 to the U.S. where he authored and edited popular pictorial presidential photo-biographies such as the classic 1941 "Lincoln: His Life in Photographs. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln


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