ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. The scarce first edition (stated), with the erratum tipped in. Winner of the 1940 Caldecott Medal, this pictorial biography tells the story of the 16th President of the United States with noble simplicity and inevitable pathos. Illustrated with lithographs in five colors on stone by the authors. Unpaginated. Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine. A bit of edgewear to the boards and the dust jacket, which is price-clipped with a period bookseller's label (Bullock's Wilshire) to the rear flap; otherwise very good. Very good / Very good. Item #69762
Price: $800.00