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Publication Date: 1926
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. "(LINCOLN) SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1926). Two volumes. Octavo, original half white cloth, printed paper spine labels, top edges gilt, untrimmed, original plain paper dust jackets. $4000.Signed limited first edition of Sandburg's first biography of Lincoln, number 112 of only 260 copies printed, signed by Sandburg on the limitation page."For thirty years and more I have planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face" (Preface). "The most popular Lincoln biography yet written " (Monaghan 2877). Profusely illustrated. Second state, with "eyes" correctly printed on p. 175 of first volume. A fine signed copy.". Signed.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. The two volume deluxe edition, one of 260 copies numbered and signed by Carl Sandburg. Near fine condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. With 105 Illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. 2 vols. Original linen-backed paper boards, paper labels on spines & with a set of fresh extra labels. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1926). First editions. Limited to 260 copies on Rag paper signed by the author. A near fine set in djs.
SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1926]. 1st ed. 2 vols. xvi,480; vi,482pp. Frontises., illus., portraits, plates, maps. Orig. linen-backed paper boards, printed paper spine labels, T.e.g. Set of fresh extra labels. HOWES S-81, "b" One of 260 numbered copies on rag paper signed by the author. Additionally inscribed on the 1/2 title of Vol. One, "Reinbold, Chicago 1926, Sandberg." Philip K. Reinbold ran for mayor of Terre Haute, Indiana, as a Socialist. He was a close friend of Eugene Debs and knew Sandburg, who was in those years an active Socialist. Minor sunning to labels, else near fine.
Published by Harcourt, Brace, 1926
Seller: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. beautiful signed, limited edition; #198/260 copies; bound on imported Dutch charcoal rag paper; fine condition in fine dust jackets and slipcase; bookplate of Lincoln-collector, George P. Hambrecht; also inscribed by Sandburg to Hambrecht on half-title page; no flaws. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1939
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4 vols. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A set of four brown cloth hardcover books in very good condition. The title plate on volume I's spine is lightly edgeworn. Some foxing on and around the plates and on foredges; otherwise, text clean and binding tight across the set. No dustjackets, as issued. Limited edition, #57 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Sandburg on a special page in the first volume. One of the key Lincoln biographies, this work won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940. Illustrated with black and white drawings and numerous photographic plates.
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM). SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. The War Years. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1939]. 1st ed. 4 vols. Illus. A near fine set. Limited to 525 De Luxe copies. Signed by the author.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE WAR YEARS, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939, first edition, four volumes, 2 volumes with small minor rub marks to the front cover, 3 volumes with minor wear and/or flaking to the perimeter of the spine labels, else a near fine set of this, the specially bound first printing on all rag paper of 525 copies SIGNED by the author.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1926
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. This two-volume set is the publisher's signed, limited, and numbered issue of the first edition of Carl Sandburg s biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Distinct from the trade edition, the publisher issued 260 copies "on imported Dutch charcoal rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 250 copies are for sale." Each set was hand-numbered in red on the half-title verso limitation statement, below which Sandburg signed in black.This limited issue is bound in quarter cream buckram with paper spine labels over blue laid paper-covered boards. The contents, featuring untrimmed fore and bottom edges and gilt top edges, are bound with blue and yellow silk head and foot bands and endpapers of the same blue laid paper as the boards. Each volume was issued in a plain dust jacket of the same blue laid paper employed on the boards and endpapers. The publisher apparently issued the dust jackets with a 1.75 inch (4.45 cm) circular cutout on the upper spine, allowing the volume s paper spine label to be viewed beneath.Condition of this set is noteworthy, featuring near fine volumes in the exceptionally scarce original dust jackets. The bindings are square, clean, and tight with sharp corners and no appreciable wear. The sole exterior defect is toning to both spine labels, consonant with the cutouts in the dust jackets; of note, each volume has a pristine, publisher-supplied replacement spine label tipped onto the terminal leaf. The contents of both volumes are immaculate, with no spotting, no previous ownership marks, bright gilt top edges, and modest age-toning apparent only to the otherwise clean fore and bottom edges. The dust jackets are noteworthy simply for being present. Both jackets have toned spines. The Volume Two jacket is substantially complete apart from fractional chipping to the spine ends. The Volume One jacket has a shallow strip loss at the spine head, trivial loss to the upper corners, and small tape reinforcements at both ends of the front hinge. Both jackets are protected beneath clear, removable, archival covers.Equal parts biography, work of literature, and epic prose poem, Carl Sandburg s (1878-1967) monumental, multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln has been called "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential book[s] about Lincoln." Sandburg seemed an unlikely figure to write a biography of an American President. Sandburg was not a writer of prose, much less history. He was widely acclaimed for his poetry, which included Chicago Poems (1916) and Cornhuskers (1918), for which he received his first Pulitzer Prize in 1919. Abraham Lincoln was a lifelong fascination for Sandburg, who collected information about the iconic President for decades before he began writing about him. These first two volumes, The Prairie Years, were published in 1926, a 344,000-word study covering Lincoln s life up to his move to Washington to become the President of the United States.Sandburg s work was heralded for its singular point of view. Historian Allan Nevins called it "homely but beautiful, learned but simple, exhaustively detailed but panoramic unlike any other biography or history in the language." Another historian called The Prairie Years "A poem of the human spirit, not Lincoln s spirit only." "Sandburg had planned to stop writing about Lincoln after the publication of The Prairie Years." Nonetheless, "for the next thirteen years he researched and wrote about the President s last four years." (NPS) The ultimate result was the four-volume Pulitzer-Prize winning biographyAbraham Lincoln: The War Years, published in 1939. There was also a publisher s signed, limited, and numbered issue of The War Years, but more than twice as many sets were issued (525) as for The Prairie Years. Moreover, the signed, limited issue of The War Years was bound in less handsome though sturdier brown buckram. Hence, of the two sets, The Prairie Years is the more elusive, particularly in this condition. Signed, limited, and numbered issue of the first edition.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1939
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
LINCOLN, Abraham (illustrator). SANDBURG, Carl. [LINCOLN, Abraham]. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Volume One. [Two. Three. Four.] New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First edition, signed by Carl Sandburg, and limited to 525 copies, this being number 392. Four small quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 7 inches; 260 x 180 mm). With 414 Half-tones of photographs, and 249 cuts of cartoons, letteres, and documents. Original publisher's heavy-grain buckram over beveled boards. Gilt facsimile closing and signature of Lincoln stamped on top board. Gilt-ruled and -lettered maroon morocco spine labels. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some mild toning from bookplate. Else fine. Partially unopened. In original board slipcase with some wear. "The first edition of Abraham Lincoln: The War Years is limited to 525 copies on all rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 500 copies are for sale." (Colophon). HBS 68658. $2,000.
Published by Harcourt Brace, NY, 1939
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original gilt-titled brown cloth, TEG, beveled boards. Four volumes in slipcase. Stated first edition. #486 of 525 copies signed by Sandburg to the limitation page. Volumes 2,3, and 4 still are wrapped in their original cellophane, although there are a few tears to cellophane; volume 1 is fine but for a few inadvertently creased corners and faint toning to endpages. The slipcase has mild shelfwear/sunning. ; quarto; Signed by Author.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1939
Seller: History Bound LLC, Mendota, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. First Edition. 1/525 deluxe copies. Hard cover. Signed and dedicated by author. Nice, clean text. Very good boards and binding. Excellent addition to any collection. Satisfaction guaranteed. Seller inventory #22-3380.
Published by Harcourt, 1939
Seller: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice set; Limited Edition, #116/500 copies, signed by Sandburg. Slipcase is very good only with some edge wear. Signed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Limited, Signed Edition. (1939). Limited edition of 525 copies of which this is number 434 signed by Carl Sandburg. Illustrated. Top edge gilt. Bottom of spine shows a lightly faded area; a few spots present on back cover of Volume 4. Lacks slipcase else very good in brown cloth. (184).
Published by Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1926
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bound in blue half leather and cloth, five raised bands on the spines. Titles in gilt on the spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1954
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition (Stated). A wonderful pre-publication presentation copy warmly inscribed and signed by Carl Sandburg to Robert Eichelberger. "With the Compliments of the Author" card loosely laid in with "Publication date - Oct. 7, 1954" written at the bottom. Eichelberger has written on the front flyleaf "This volume was sent to me by the author thru the publisher in Sept 1954 prior to its public appearance. R L Eichelberger, Asheville No Car." Sandburg's presentation on the title page reads " Dear Bob Eichelberger, Valor is a gift you have that I have never had under test. In your book Jungle Road you convey vividly the impression of men having deep unspeakable love of America, proven by their deeds. I hoped thru this Lincoln story & portrait to render that same impression.The love of all at our house to you and Em. Carl Sandburg 1954." Sandburg won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. This is Sandburg's definitive one-volume edition out of his monumental six-volume work. Robert Lawrence Eichelberger (1886 - 1961) was a general officer in the United States Army who commanded the Eighth United States Army in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II. As Commanding General of the Eighth Army, Eichelberger led the invasion of the Southern Philippines clearing the islands of Mindoro, Marinduque, Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol. By July 1945, his forces had defeated the Japanese on Mindanao. In August 1945, Eichelberger's Eighth Army began a three-year stint as part of the Occupation of Japan. He retired from the Army at the end of 1948 after nearly 40 years of service, with the rank of lieutenant general. In 1950, he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he lived with his wife Em for the rest of his life. Eichelberger wrote the book "Our Jungle Road to Tokyo." Harry Truman and Omar Bradley both requested autographed copies. Evidently Sandburg was also one of Eichelberger's admirers. Very near fine with some slight shelf rubbing on bottom edges. In a very good, price-intact dust jacket with some small chips and edge tears. Now in a protective mylar wrap. A unique and wonderful association copy. Signed by Author.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1939
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. xxxi, 660pp; xii, 655pp; xiii, 673pp; xii, 515pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mildest of slipcase wear. Absolutely exceptional -- tight and pristine -- first trade edition (after the deluxe signed edition) of this mammoth set, signed large and bold by Sandburg on the half-title page of the first volume -- beneath which is neatly tipped an original, likely one-of-a-kind black-and-white 5½" X 4" snapshot of Sandburg, an informal closeup of him speaking in suit and bow tie. This photograph was almost certainly taken at a special 75th birthday black-tie celebration held for the poet in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel on January 6, 1953 -- and laid into this copy is the scarce "Carl Sandburg 75th Birthday Dinner" 4pp leaflet with its celebrity-studded "Speaker's Table" list that includes such historians as Allan Nevins, Benjamin P. Thomas, Paul M. Angle, Sandburg's brother-in law photographer Edward Steichen, Chicago journalist Fanny Butcher and many others. An exceptional set.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1926
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
FIRST TRADE EDITION. Frontispiece in each volume and numerous text and photographic illustrations. Blue publisher's cloth; an ex libris copy with markings on the spine and blind stamp on title. Bookplate of the Ritzman Collection at Aurora College Library. Signed by the author in Volume I. A fine uncut copy. First trade edition after a deluxe edition of 260 copies. This was Sandburg's ground-breaking biography of Lincoln, which was followed over ten years later by a further four-volume sequel.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company (1939), New York, 1939
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Trade Edition. Original cloth in 4 volumes after the printing of 525 deluxe copies. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page of the first volume. Illustrated with 414 halftones from photographs and 249 reproductions of cartoons, letters, and documents. Small rubbed spot on the spine of the fourth volume, otherwise books are sharp and clean. Fine, lacking the dustwrappers but in a Very Good example of the scarce original box with the large printed label on the top cover.
Published by New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Fine copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 6 volumes: The Prairie Years (I), The Prairie Years (II), The War Years (I), The War Years (II), The War Years (III), The War Years (IV). With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. Includes index. Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham. Biography. United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865. 1 Kg.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1939
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. All four volumes Very Good+ in boards. Light shelfwear on spine of volume 2 and front panels of volume 3 and 4.
Published by New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Fine copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 6 volumes: The Prairie Years (I), The Prairie Years (II), The War Years (I), The War Years (II), The War Years (III), The War Years (IV). With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. Includes index. Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham. Biography. United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865. 1 Kg.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1957
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Presentation Copies. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Olga and Len Steckler on the front endpaper of Volume I of each set. Fine. Navy blue buckram with gilt lettering and rules on the spines. Square and firmly bound with pale yellow top stains, clean internally. A nice complete set of Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of fellow Illinoisan and 16th President of the United States.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
Seller: Colewood Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed 6 volume Scribner hardcover set, 1940 Sangamon edition, w/ no DJs (none issued). All volumes VG minus, w/ clean text, some wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Volume 1 and Volume 6 are signed by author and inscribed to English director George A. Cooper. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company (1939), New York, 1939
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Trade Edition. Original cloth in 4 volumes after the printing of 525 deluxe copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page of the first volume to an Illinois school superintendent. Illustrated with 414 halftones from photographs and 249 reproductions of cartoons, letters, and documents. Light foxing to a few pages. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappers.
First Edition
6 volumes. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York 1926-39. Illustrations in b/w. Orig. uniform dark blue cloth bindings. Fine. * Complete set of the monumental Lincoln biography. All volumes in first edition.
Published by Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1939
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; Early Printing. All six volumes Very Good+ in boards.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1926
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Editions, mixed printings. Hard cover 8vo in blue cloth w/gold spine titles. About Very Good/ No DJs. Cloth rubbed, white paint smudges on several books, hinges a little loose, endpapers offset. The War Years, Vols. III and IV are (1939) First Printings! Well-illustrated in maps, cartoons, reproductions, holograph reproductions. Extra postage necessary on this 6-volume set. Sorry, NO Priority or International. Book.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1926
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvi, 480pp; vi, 482pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Very good. Mild binding edgewear. Third printing (Volume One) and first edition (Volume Two), tight and nice, of this pair that began Sandburg's Lincoln biography (followed by the 4-volume "The War Years" in 1939). Half-title page of Volume One inscribed and signed large and bold in green ink by the author in year of publication: "Fay Lewis / Chicago / 1926 / Carl Sandburg." In addition, tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Sandburg, 1p, 5 3/4" X 4", Chicago, IL, 28 May 1926. Addressed to Fay. Very good. On letterhead of "The Daily News" (with bit of "[Edito]rial Rooms" trimmed off), Sandburg tells his correspondent "Thank you for sending me the Mary Field letter. I can't return it as yet, without reading it a few times more. Not for its reference to me, fine as that is, but for its generally keen size-up of the American drift now. And one of these days I hope we'll have another of those good talks." Boldly signed simply "Carl" in green ink. "Mary Field" was certainly Mary Field Parton (1878-1969) was a noted journalist and friend of Clarence Darrow (as was Fay Lewis), Sinclair Lewis, Lincoln Steffens and other literary and political notables; this intriguingly cryptic Mary Field letter certainly worth further research. Second volume bears a fine 2½" X 1" clipped Sandburg signature in black ink tipped to front pastedown. Double signed copy of one of the classic Lincoln biographies.
Published by Harcourt Brace & Co., 1944
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near-Fine. No Jacket. Stated 1st Ed. Pub by Harcourt, Brace, 1944, stated 1st Edition. SIGNED by author, Frederick H. Meserve, boldly & neatly on ffep. NOT exLib. Near-Fine cond. hardcover, no dj. Dark blue cloth over bds w/ bright gilt lettering on spine. Extensively illustrated w/ page after page of b&w photos. Only partially paginated, book is complete & intact. Square, straight, tight, bright, clean & unmarked except as noted, overall Near Fine cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions. Signed by Author(s).