first edition Hardcover
1928 · St. Louis
by Vannest, Charles Garrett
St. Louis: Eden Publishing House, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Hardcover. Green cloth with black and gilt design. Octavo. [xiii] 258 pages with plates (one folding) inserted. From the library of collector Victor B. Levit with his bookplate to the front fixed endpaper. Near fine.This volume treats somewhat extensively that portion of Lincoln's life that was spent in Indiana (from the age of seven to twenty one). There are chapters on the ancestry of Lincoln, on his schooling, and on his reading habits and opportunities...the physical labor which the youth was called on to perform and the great bodily strength which he developed...there is even a chapter on the slavery question.- from a review in the Indiana magazine of History.
(Inventory #: 832)