Poetry and Prose by A. Lincoln. Edited, with an Introduction, by Paul M. Angle and Earl Schenck Miers.

Octavo, gray cloth & white boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 40 pp + Notes & a Postscript. Small former-owner signature; otherwise, Fine, in protective mylar wrapper. From Publisher's insert: We hope that you will enjoy the copy of Poetry and Prose by A. Lincoln that we now send you. This book is the first title in a series of American Keepsakes that we intend to issue for our friends from time to time. No copies of the titles in this series will be offered for sale; the plates from which the book was printed have been melted. Poetry and Prose came into being this way. One afternoon Paul Angle and Earl Miers were discussing the essential character of Lincoln. "The man," they said, "always had a creative spark. He was mystical, deeply subjective, a seeker after the philosophical significance in personal experiences. One of the most telling illustrations of this fact came during those early years when he essayed to become (rather sheepishly, it is true) A. Lincoln, Author." This book is the expression of that belief. We think you will find it a pleasure to read, and by sharply focusing on this interlude in Lincoln's life it adds a share to our fuller understanding of this remarkable American. Presidential Biography, Poetry, Literature, Abraham Lincoln, Americana, U.S.-iana aslic.