ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. The scarce first edition (stated). 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 wear along the extremities of the boards. The dust jacket ($2.00) is edgeworn, with a half-inch chip to the spine heel and some tape reinforcement to the verso; else about very good. Very good / Very good. Item #78722
Price: $400.00