LINCOLN COLLECTOR - The Story of Oliver R. Barrett's Great Private Collection by Sandburg, Carl

Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1950. . First Edition-2nd Impression.,. hard bound in dj, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, VG/VG- condition ( light dj edge wear), xvi, 344 pages, numerous illus, index.---------------------------------------------Originally published last autumn in a limited edition at fifteen dollars, Lincoln Collector was widely praised as an invaluable and highly entertaining contribution to a fuller understanding of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War period. Now Carl Sandburg's exciting story of the foremost private Lincoln collection and how it was brought into existence is available in a complete and unabridged regular edition. The author's text, combined with a wide and varied selection from the Barrett Collection, make this handsome volume a new Lincoln biography in itself, an album of Americana to be read with pleasure by all interested in the rarity, scope, and richness of our past.-------------------------------------------------A few of the many documents in Lincoln Collector are: a newly discovered speech on the Declaration of Independence; the Old Desk Letters, rescued from Lincoln's rolltop desk; the Hot Stove Letters, which Lincoln intended to destroy; the Bonfire Letters, husband-and-wife missives which Mary Lincoln almost burned; Lincoln's personal account of the mysterious Trailor case; and many papers revealing fresh sidelights on Lee, Davis, Grant, Sherman, and other important figures of the time.