Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie years

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Frontispiece in each volume and numerous text and photographic illustrations. Blue publisher’s cloth; an ex libris copy with markings on the spine and blind stamp on title. Bookplate of the Ritzman Collection at Aurora College Library. Signed by the author in Volume I. A fine uncut copy. First trade edition after a deluxe edition of 260 copies. This was Sandburg’s ground-breaking biography of Lincoln, which was followed over ten years later by a further four-volume sequel.