The Prairie President: Living Through the Years with Lincoln, 1809-1861
by WARREN, Raymond
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter linen with paper label and gilt rules/decorations and terra cotta paper over boards, slipcase. xxv, 427pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. A handsome first edition of this popular biography, tight and bright -- the rarely seen limited edition, with colophon noting 420 numbered copies (this #52) signed large and bold by Warren. So seldom do you one encounter this edition one wonders if the full print run was actually produced -- or if part of it got destroyed. Quite scarce and in lovely condition. MONAGHAN 3238.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49974
- Title
- The Prairie President: Living Through the Years with Lincoln, 1809-1861
- Author
- WARREN, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Lee Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Abraham Lincoln;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...