Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

The Life of Abraham Lincoln.

BINNS, Henry Bryan.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1927]. Hardcover. 16mo. Grey mesh cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations. xix, 379pp, 4pp ads. Green pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Item #45721

Handsome and tight first "Everyman's Library" edition (#783) of this 1907 biography, which Binns thought (according to Jay Monaghan) was "the first serious attempt to delineate for English readers 'the greatest of the popular statesmen of the last century.'" Surprisingly uncommon, especially in such superb condition with gilt gleaming. MONAGHAN 1520.

Price: $50.00