Lost Men of American History

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Hardcover. Introduction by Allan Nevins. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 370pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with several archivally closed (on verso) edge tears and large chip at spine head -- though complete and overall fairly attractive. A tight and nice second printing of these essays on often obscure but interesting noteworthy Americans -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Nevins, 1p, 8" X 10½", New York, NY, 8 December 1949. Addressed to Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Near fine. Faint original folds. On "Columbia University" letterhead, Nevins acknowledges owing Newman money "for my much prized set of the Bishop's Memoirs" and makes an interesting comment about his upcoming release: "My 'Emergence of Lincoln' has been put off till September; a great gain -- for I need all the time. Freeman's next Washington volumes have been put off till the spring of 1951...." Boldly signed in full in black ink. Nevins (1890-1971) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian best remembered for his 8-volume "Ordeal of the Union" (1947-71) -- of which the "Emergence of Lincoln" title mentioned in this letter are the third and fourth volumes.