Abe Lincoln in Illinois
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Dustwrapper with portrait of Lincoln by Norman Rockwell. Cloth lightly mottled, else very good in a good only dustwrapper with chipped and small holes along the extremities, front flap clipped (price intact). A Pulitzer Prize-winning play that featured Raymond Massey as Lincoln. He reprised the role in the 1940 John Cromwell-directed film with Ruth Gordon as Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Robert E. Sherwood
birth name: Robert Emit Sherwood
born: 4/4/1896
died: 11/14/1955
Biography
American playwright whose works reflect involvement in human problems, both social and political. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature He was also a speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt.more