Lot 320: D'Aulaire, Ingri (1904-1980) and Edgar Parin (1898-1986) Abraham Lincoln, Inscribed. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. Stated fi

D'Aulaire, Ingri (1904-1980) and Edgar Parin (1898-1986) Abraham Lincoln, Inscribed. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939.
Stated first edition, inscribed by the D'Aulaire's to Julia Carter on copyright page, "with hearty thanks for all the help she offered to two shy speakers," with the dust jacket, an 8 x 10-in. black-and-white photograph of the D'Aulaires with their son inserted, and a printed notice of the awarding of the Caldecott Medal to the D'Aulaires for this book, and the Newbery Medal to James Daugherty for Daniel Boone on 28 May 1940; bound in publisher's pictorial boards and blue cloth spine, worn, sunned, the jacket with chipped top edge and corners, small pieces missing from the head and tail of the spine;
[and] James Daugherty's Daniel Boone, New York: Viking, 1939, stated first edition; inscribed to Julia Carter on the half-title, "in appreciation of your royal consummate hospitality," in publisher's terra-cotta cloth, with a chipped jacket, with missing portions at head and tail of spine, a piece torn away from top left corner, and along the top edge on the back. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980).