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Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Illinois -- Being Year by Year Incidents from 1830 to 1865
194041121New York: M. Barrows and Company 1940. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth. vii 64pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. A tight nice first edition. Ex-"Lincoln College Library / Lincolniana" copy the sole marking being this light inkstamp on rear pastedown -- if it's gotta be ex-library at least it's appropriate. An "Appreciation" is provided by Lincoln Fellowship of Southern California president Ralph G. Lindstrom -- which explains the nice autograph addition to this copy: Tipped to front pastedown is a nice Typed Letter Signed from Lindstrom 1p 5½" X 8½" Los Angeles CA 17 December 1948. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates 1914-93 noted Lincoln/Civil War researcher. On "University Club of Los Angeles" letterhead the noted Lincoln scholar and author sends "the happiest of Christmas Greetings and good wishes for the New Year to you and yours. May the world receive enough of the Christ spirit to be willing to demonstrate for humanhood liberty under law as a means of assuring happiness and progress in the coming years and years" Signed simply "Ralph." Delightful and plentiful full-page sepia-tone illustrations all depict scenes from the then-just-released film "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" showing Raymond Massey as Lincoln Ruth Gordon as Mary and so on. M. Barrows and Company hardcover
