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1960 Dell Publishing Edition

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Carl Sandburg
Dell Publishing, 1960. Later edition, second printing.
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$25One copy · this copy
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Book
Very Good
Our ref
RCB-6ed704bfb0cf
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-6ed704bfb0cf · 11 photographs of this copy
✓
Dell Laurel paperback reprint, licensed from Harcourt, Brace — not the Harcourt first edition
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Copyright page states 'First Dell printing—October, 1959' and 'Second Dell printing—January, 1960'
examined on the copy in hand
✓
The presence of the second-printing line marks this copy as the second Dell printing
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Issued as a three-volume boxed paperback set in a printed slipcase
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
rubbing and chipping to slipcase edges and corners
noted on the copy in hand
2
water/damp staining to top panel of slipcase
see it — photograph 2
3
toning/tanning to page-block edges and text paper
see it — photograph 7
4
shelf wear and edge fraying to volume spine ends
see it — photograph 3
This copy
1960 Dell Publishing Edition

What a true first shows: The true first of the work is the Harcourt, Brace hardcover issues (The Prairie Years, 1926, 2 vols; The War Years, 1939, 4 vols; one-volume condensation 1954). This Dell 'Laurel Edition' is a paperback reprint; its own earliest state is 'First Dell printing—October, 1959.'

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.