=Copyright 1989, hardcover with dustjacket, 898 pages. SUBJECT: "(Library of America book number 45) Vol. 1 of the comprehensive two-volume edition of Lincoln's writings illuminates the political career of our greatest president & reveals his extraordinary gifts as a writer. It presents 240 speeches, letters, drafts & fragments that record his emergence as an eloquent anti-slavery advocate & defender of the Constitution. Charting Lincoln's rise from rural law practice to national prominence, it includes the full texts of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates & the House Divided speech, along w/ many other important & revealing writings, a detailed chronology of Lincoln's life." CONDITION: In near-new condition., ISBN13: B0058M6F0Y ISBN10: B0058M6F0Y Material Type: hardcover