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Lincoln collector. The story of Oliver R. Barrett's great private collection - 1949

by SANDBURG, Carl

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. FIRST EDITION. With numerous illustrations and facsimiles of letters and other documents. Blue buckram, no dust jacket. Ex libris, with library markings on spine and the bookplate of the Ritzman Collection at Aurora College Library. .First edition, signed by Sandburg, number 337 of 2425 copies. The story of the remarkable collection of Oliver Barrett, a Chicago attorney who started collecting as a child. It was Barrett's collection that Sandburg used to author his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln.
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