Accession number
PML 186979
Creator
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Published
New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, [1926?]
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Cover title.
"Twenty-five hundred copies of this booklet have been printed for booksellers. Its preservation as a Lincoln "item" is suggested; it contains one hitherto unpublished, authentic Lincoln story which does not appear in the book"--Front wrapper.
"Ready February Fourth"-- Verso of front wrapper.
"Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln will be published by Harcourt, Brace and Company on February 4, 1926. This booklet has been prepared to give you advance information as to the kind of book that is coming. About one-seventh of the story has appeared in the Pictorial Review and this taste has apparently merely whetted the public's appetite for the whole book"--Verso of front wrapper.
Caption title: "Part of the Introduction which Harry Hansen of the Chicago Daily News wrote for the Pictorial Review".
Library's copy housed in brown cloth clamshell box.
"Twenty-five hundred copies of this booklet have been printed for booksellers. Its preservation as a Lincoln "item" is suggested; it contains one hitherto unpublished, authentic Lincoln story which does not appear in the book"--Front wrapper.
"Ready February Fourth"-- Verso of front wrapper.
"Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln will be published by Harcourt, Brace and Company on February 4, 1926. This booklet has been prepared to give you advance information as to the kind of book that is coming. About one-seventh of the story has appeared in the Pictorial Review and this taste has apparently merely whetted the public's appetite for the whole book"--Verso of front wrapper.
Caption title: "Part of the Introduction which Harry Hansen of the Chicago Daily News wrote for the Pictorial Review".
Library's copy housed in brown cloth clamshell box.
Description
34 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on verso of front wrapper: A.W.H. - This odd one for you. Carl Sanburg.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Green wrappers printed in black, with illustration inside rear wrapper.
Classification
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Department