EIGHT TITLES ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ALL BY IDA TARBELL, SOME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Including IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE LINCOLNS, first edition, 1924, Harper & Brothers Hard-cover, quarto, with dust-jacket protected by Brodart mylar jacket cover, 418-pages. Signed by Tarbell on page facing inside front cover. This book, the seventh of Tarbell's eight books on Lincoln and his family, traces the 16th President's lineage from the first Lincoln to migrate in 1637 from England to what was the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This volume's pages 360-361 contained the spark that kindled the flame of the collector/editor-author's research into Abraham Lincoln's 1858 "time capsule"; THE EARLY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Assisted by J. McCan Davis, 1896, S.S. McClure, Ltd., London, 240 pages, hard-cover, green cloth binding, no dust jacket, octavo. 160 illustrations including 20 portraits of Lincoln. This volume is part of the sprawling archive of Lincoln books created by Tarbell from the mid-1890s through the 1930s (two copies); LIFE OF LINCOLN, Volumes 2,3 4, published 1909 by Lincoln History Society, New York, octavo, all three volumes are hard-cover without dust jackets, Vol. 2, 220-pages; Vol. 3, 204-pages; Vol 4, 272-pages; missing volume 1. Cover edges and corners scuffed, rear cover of one book a bit soiled. One small ding in spine of one book. Previous owner's name inside; HE KNEW LINCOLN AND OTHER BILLY BROWN STORIES, 1922, The Macmillan Company, octavo, former library copy. Hard cover, no jacket, 180-pages. Children's book about Lincoln; A REPORTER FOR LINCOLN, STORY OF HENRY E. WING, SOLDIER AND NEWSPAPERMAN, 1927, The Macmillan Company, hard-cover, octavo, no jacket, 78-pages a Lincoln-related history for the young-adult reader (two copies); IN LINCOLN'S CHAIR, 1920, The MacMillan Company, hard-cover, octavo with scarce dust-jacket, 56 pages. Lincoln related history for young adult readers.. Together with MCCLURE'S EARLY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WITH 160 PICTURES. S.S. McClure, Limited, 1895-1896, McClure's Magazine Library Number 3, octavo, soft-cover, 240-pages, front cover included but detached from body of work. This book, probably written by Ida Tarbell, preceded her various Lincoln histories published by McClure. Those works are previewed in this book's back pages where it states: "The forthcoming articles in the Lincoln series promise to more than satisfy the expectations raised by the History of the early life of Lincoln." Collection of a Retired Journalist Estimate $200-400
