In the Footsteps of the Lincolns [SIGNED, ASSOCIATION COPY, 1st] by Tarbell, Ida M - 1924

Harper & Brothers. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Cover cloth is lightly spotted, text block edges typically tanned. Firm binding, unmarked except for minor underlining on a few early pages. Stated 1st ed. [xiv],418 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Very scarce..

Harper & Brothers, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. very nice book First edition stated on copyright page blue boards very solid and tight

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. Large octavo, 418pp, illustrated. A crisp copy, very good or better, with some foxing to the title page and frontispiece, and an erased pencil mark to the title page. There are several isolated pencil notations in the margins throughout; nothing disfiguring, and all erasable with a little effort. Otherwise bright, crisp, and clean. In the rare dust jacket, near fine, with only the most trivial edgewear. This in-depth genealogy of the Lincoln family complicates the old myths about Lincoln's dirt-poor origins, revealing his familial links to the early years of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Tarbell was perhaps the journalist best suited for this task; her forensic study of the Standard Oil Company two decades earlier was the first modern example of muckraking journalism.

1924. TARBELL, Ida M. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE LINCOLNS. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition. xi, [3], 418 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind, grey dust jacket printed in blue, scarce, good condition with some small chips and closed tears to edges. Cloth has water stains but no interior damage to text. Ida Tarbell recounts the history of Abraham Lincoln's family for seven generations, beginning with Samuel Lincoln, who emigrated from Hingham, England to "Hingham Plantation" in the American colonies in 1637. Publisher's blurb on front of dust jacket: "The rail-splitter, poor white trash stock which has been popularly accepted as the ancestry of Abraham Lincoln does not exist. Miss Tarbell proves it. Not only does she prove it, but she tells the history of the Lincolns in America since the seventeenth century in a most fascinating way." B/w plates, facsimiles. (Stern 4110 ).