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Signed book: Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin P. Thomas. Limited first edition, numbered 250/500. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Hardcover with slipcase, 7.25 x 10.25, 548 pages. Signed on the colophon in black ink by the author, Benjamin P. Thomas. In fine condition, with scattered wear to the slipcase.
Accompanied by a newsletter from Lincoln Lore, issued as number 1231, dated November 10, 1952, entitled "Thomas's One Volume Lincoln,” which contains information related to Thomas's biography. In part: “Today there has been released an epochal book in the field of Lincolniana, a full length one volume biography entitled Abraham Lincoln and written by Benjamin P. Thomas. It is such a book as Lincoln admirers have been clamoring after for many years. It immediately takes its place along with three other earlier volumes to form a select coterie in the vast accumulation of books about the Emancipator…
There are 20 chapters in the book by Thomas. The chronological sequence might be broken down into three sections. Four chapters take Lincoln from birth to marriage, six reveal him as a developing politician plus a little law, and the remaining ten give an account of his statesmanship as President of the Nation. While in round numbers these seasons represent 30, 20 and 5 years respectively, yet the relative importance of the periods as presented by Mr. Thomas seems to create a proper synthesis. We rejoice that an American writer has at last captured the honor of writing the best full length one volume work on Lincoln now available which distinction has long been coveted by England.”
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