Later 1939 printing (W). With blue buckram and blind stamp of the author's signature on the front covers. Front page edges are uncut, internally very fine. Some minor markings on the cover and spine of volume four and very minor rubbing on the cover edges of all volumes. Sandburg was awarded the 1940 Pulitzer prize in history for this work on Abraham Lincoln. Includes 426 half-tones of photographs and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, and documents.