LINCOLN AND THE TOOLS OF WAR by Robert V. Bruce Foreword by Benjamin P. Thomas Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1956). First edition, first printing. Civil War Book Club Review, Volume I, Number 7, April, 1956 original pamphlet (with mild vertical crease) laid in. Contains a review for this book by Bruce Catton. Contains numerous photo-plate illustrations. A comprehensive account of the arming of the Union forces in the Civil War and Lincoln's part in it. An important Civil War and President Lincoln history. Minor soiling to the lower front end-paper, else very good in waxed-green over grey linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a lightly rubbed very good price-clipped dust jacket with very short tears with attendant creases to the upper and lower spine edges. Octavo; 368 pages; notes; sources cited; index. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!