Author: TOWNSEND, William H.
Title: Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and CIVIL War in Kentucky
Description: N.p. University of Kentucky Press, 1955. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiv, 392pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. A tight and quite handsome first edition -- the so-called "Cassius Marcellus Clay Edition" of the Civil War Book Club with this special leaf signed boldly by Townsend tipped in. (Civil War Book Club, by the way, is NOT a low-end reprint like Book-of-the-Month Club, but simply a bona fide first trade edition into which a signed CWBC colophon has been tipped.) From the collection of Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65) and after him his son, Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021). Townsend (1890-1964) was a noted Lexington attorney better known as a renowned Lincoln authority. EICHER 903. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Civil War


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