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Book Condition: Used Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Back top of DJ is chipped. Protected in clear, clean wrapper. Inscribed by auth
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

United States
About Item: New York.: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy., 1961. Unstated edition. Rear Jacket flap announces BOMC selection.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Back top of DJ is chipped. Protected in clear, clean wrapper. Inscribed by author, 1961, free endpaper.. Gorsline, Douglas (Grayscale illustrations from watercolors / charcoal by). 1 89 p. 24 cm. Many Illustrations. Production details at back of book. High quality paper, offset lithography. A chronicle of Abe Lincoln's formative years into young adulthood in the frontier village of New Salem, Illinois, it was written to honor the centennial of his first inauguration, March 4, 1861, and commissioned by the editors of Saturday Evening Post. At 21, Lincoln came there as a flatboatman employee, he left for Springfield as a new counsellor-at-law at age 28. At this writing, author had already won Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes in History.
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