Lincoln.

HERBERT DONALD, David.

Item Number: 119068

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

First edition of this “grand work–the Lincoln biography for this generation” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Wendell Minor. Uncommon signed.

"Lincoln immediately takes its place among the best of the genre, and it is unlikely that it will be surpassed in elegance, incisiveness and originality in this century. . . . A book of investigative tenacity, interpretive boldness and almost acrobatic balance" (Harold Holzer, The Chicago Tribune).