Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years /
"For thirty years and more I have planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace & Company,
[1926]
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| Online Access: | UIUC Sandburg Collections online resources |
| Summary: | "For thirty years and more I have planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face."-- |
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| Item Description: | "The first edition of Abraham Lincoln; the prairie years, is limited to 260 copies on imported Dutch charcoal rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 250 copies are for sale." "With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters." Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (xvi, 480, 20 pages of unnumbered plates; vi, 482 pages, 24 pages of unnumbered plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm Also issued online. |