Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years /
"For thirty years and more I planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten wi...
| Основен автор: | Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York, N.Y. :
Harcourt, Brace & company,
c1926.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Abraham Lincoln. |
| Резюме: |
"For thirty years and more I planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face." -- Preface |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
"The first edition of Abraham Lincoln; the prairie years, is limited to 260 copies on imported Dutch charcoal rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 250 copies are for sale." " ... with 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters ... " |
| Физически характеристики: |
2 v. fronts., illus. (incl. maps) plates, ports., facsims. 25 cm. HOLDINGS: vol. 1, 2 Also issued online. |
| Библиография: |
Includes index. |