Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.

SANBURG, Carl.

Item Number: 143162

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939.

First trade edition of Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with 414 half-tones of photographs and 249 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Signed by Carl Sandburg on the half-title page of volume one. In near fine condition. Housed in a original slipcase. An exceptional signed example.

Not only a biography of Lincoln, but a complete history of the Civil war, Sandburg's monumental four volume set covers Lincoln's life from his inauguration in 1861 to his death and funeral in 1865. It was awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in History.