Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. First and second printings before publication. Illustrated with black and white plates, portraits. Newspaper clippings laid in causing offsetting on the endpapers, small newspaper clipping affixed on half-title, gutter before title starting to crack, still very good in a good only edgeworn dustwrapper with clear tape repair inside.
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Abraham Lincoln
birth name: Abraham Lincoln
born: 2/12/1809
died: 4/15/1865
Biography
Sixteenth president of the United States (1861-65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of the slaves. Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., he came to be regarded as a hero and martyr. He was the inspiration for much literature, including Walt Whitman's poems "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore