Washington in Lincoln's Time

New York/Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear, the tiniest bit of fraying at the base of the spine, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is edgeworn and lightly soiled, with internal tape reinforcements along the top and bottom edges and the rear flapfold]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A reprint, with a new introduction, of this classic "up close and personal" account of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, first published in 1895. "Brooks, intimate of Lincoln, able and gifted journalist, wrote [this book] about his experiences in the wartime capital and about his relationship with the President and his family." In addition to the new introduction, this edition also features important contextual notes preceding each chapter. .