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Lincoln Collector by Carl Sandburg ,New York Harcourt ,Brace and Company 1950
LINCOLN COLLECTOR: THE STORY OF OLIVER R. BARRETT'S GREAT PRIVATE COLLECTION. CARL SANDBURG. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York. 1949. First Edition. 8vo., 344pp. With numerous illustrations and facsimiles of letters and other documents. Blue buckram, no dust jacket. First edition, No slipcase .Not Numbered
The story of the remarkable collection of Oliver Barrett, a Chicago attorney who started collecting as a child. For more than 50 years, Oliver Barrett, in his hometown of Pittsfield, Illinois, collected Lincoln letters, documents, relics and related source materials. It was Barrett's collection that Sandburg used to author his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln. Seller
Bibliographic Details
Title: Lincoln Collector: The Story of Oliver R.Barret's Great private Collection
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition