ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1858 [TWO VOLUMES]
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Octavos, 2 volumes; VG/G+; in publisher's off-white dust jackets, black titling to spines; housed in publisher's printed blue slipcasetop edges partially open, wear and rubbing to all edges; jackets now protected with mylar coverings, some wear, primarily to spines and hinges, large chip missing to head of spine of volume 1; pencil note on ffep of volume 1 reading: "first volumes from the press."; scattered small pencil corrections throughout both volumes; Ephemera: 1) Small condolence card from Charles L. Nichols to Mrs. Beveridge, dated June 28, 1927. 2) Newspaper clipping titled 'Beveridge's Unfinished Book' from the Boston Herald, May 14, 1927, pasted on Boston Herald letterhead. 3) Clipped signature of Albert Beveridge. 4) 4 pages of a bifolium Autograph Letter Signed by Historian Worthington Chauncey Ford to Mrs. Beveridge on Massachusetts Historical Society letterhead, dated 9 Ocho 28. Ford wrote the preface to this set.; shelved case 1. More