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Lincoln : a novel / Gore Vidal.
LIBRA - Special PS3543.I26 L5 1984b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Fiction.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Presidents--United States--Fiction.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Lincoln, Abraham <1809-1865>--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy).
- Local Subjects:
- Lincoln, Abraham <1809-1865>--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Belletristische Darstellung.
- Biographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Goldstein, Bill (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 658 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1984]
- Summary:
- Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "FF-- for BB" on p.1 of cover.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "Bill Goldstein best wishes Gore Vidal '84" on half-title.
- OCLC:
- 930795523
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