Lincoln on Lincoln

ZALL, Paul M. (editor)

ISBN 10: 0813121418 / ISBN 13: 9780813121413

Published by The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1999

About this Item

8vo. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 198pp. Fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this compilation of Lincoln's writings about himself -- with one unique twist: Tipped to front flyleaf is the custom Lincoln-theme Bernhardt Wall-designed bookplate of RALPH G. NEWMAN (1911-98), founder of Chicago's well-known Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, who in 1975 compiled an earlier version of this type of title, "Abraham Lincoln: His Story in His Own Words." Newman's bookplate is a superb example of the engraver's art. Seller Inventory # 38867

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lincoln on Lincoln

Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A compelling new biography of the Great Emancipator draws on personal correspondence, speeches, and interviews to provide a flavor for Lincoln's own thoughts, feelings, and internal conflicts on slavery, power, politics, and many other important topics.

From the Publisher:

"The autobiography Lincoln never had the chance to write. The way in which Zall has blended together various sources is very clever."--James McPherson

“A must read for every Abraham Lincoln fan.”—Beattyville Enterprise, Manchester Enterprise, Pineville Sun, Berea Citizen, Booneville Sentinel, Jackson Times

“An artful biography of Lincoln . . . spliced together from interview, memoir, and speech excerpts, but always in the slain president’s own words.”—Civil War Book Review

“All the wisdom and insight that we have come to value in the man who presides over the temple at the west end of the Capital Mall.”—Civil War Courier