The Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Short, Illustrated Biography.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and tan paper over boards. 256pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Mild binding wear only, else tight and internally fine and bright. Item #52009
First edition, tight and attractive -- and a fine presentation inscription from the author in black fineline on front flyleaf: "For Adlai E. Stevenson / with admiration / most sincerely / Stefan Lorant / Sept 1, 1954." A title seldom seen signed. Lorant (1901-97) was a Hungarian-born pioneering photojournalist who, as editor of the "Munich Illustrated Press," was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1933 for using photographs to make political commentary; he fled to England and in 1940 to the U.S., where he authored and edited popular pictorial presidential photo-biographies such as the classic 1941 "Lincoln: His Life in Photographs." Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65) was Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate -- and a well-known Lincoln admirer.
Price: $150.00