Description

First edition, February issue. Illustrated with black and white photographs on plates and with manuscript and signature facsimiles. Tall 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth, the upper board with publisher's mark and ruled frame in blind, the spine lettered. xiv, 418, including index. A very good copy, the endpapers are a bit dust soiled but the text is clean with just a bit of age mellowing, strong and sturdy binding with a little age and dulling to the gilt lettering and with a snag to the cloth on the rear cover.

Edizione: one of the 20th century's greatest authorities on abraham lincoln traces seven successive generations of lincoln pioneers from massachusetts bay in 1637 through the lincoln presidency. perhaps most interestingly she challenges the long-held mythos of lincoln's background in poverty.