AMERICANA 52 Carl Sandburg’s Landmark Lincoln Biographies, Handsomely Bound 59 (LINCOLN) SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Two volumes. WITH: The War Years. Four volumes. New York, 1926, 1939. Together, six volumes. Octavo, modern full navy morocco gilt. $5500 Later printings of Sandburg’s celebrated biographies of President Lincoln, handsomely bound by Maurin in full morocco-gilt. Sandburg grew up in the Knox County neighborhoods with which Lincoln was familiar; the poet met people whom knew Lincoln not only as a politician but also as a man. “The most popular Lincoln biography yet written… Lincoln publications increased after the appearance of this work” (Monaghan 2877, 3711). This handsome six-volume set contains Sandburg’s two-volume Prairie Years and his four-volume War Years; the latter earned Sandburg his second of three Pulitzer Prizes. Illustrated with hundreds of photographic plates and numerous additional cuts of maps, cartoons, letters and documents. First published in 1926 (Prairie Years) and 1939 (War Years), this set is a later printing, with “0.I.67” on the copyright pages. Fine condition. “A Triumph Of Scholarly Tribute” 60 (LEE, Robert E.) FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. R.E. Lee: A Biography. WITH: Lee’s Lieutenants. New York and London, 1945, 1946. Together, seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark blue morocco gilt. $6500 Later edition of Freeman’s biography of Robert Lee, along a later edition of his equally important threevolume study of Lee’s officers, handsomely bound. Freeman was invited in 1915 to write a biography of Lee for Scribner’s… He identified with him strongly, seeing Lee’s life through Lee’s own eyes. His biographical method produced an ample, empathetic, and ruminative treatment, abundantly researched and documented, a triumph of scholarly tribute” (ANB). Lee’s Lieutenants “stands in its own right as one of the great works of military history” (In Tall Cotton, 61). “One of the epic works on the Confederate armies, these exhaustively researched and brilliantly written volumes [Lee’s Lieutenants] deserve to be read by all Civil War students. Freeman employs an amazing quantity of information, much of it gleaned from Confederate sources in Richmond” (Eicher 971). R.E. Lee first published 1934-35; Lee’s Lieutenants first published 1942-44. A handsomely bound set of these two important works in fine condition.
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