With Malice Toward None, Honoré Willsie Morrow, 1928 first edition, William Morrow & Company

With Malice Toward None (1928) is Honoré Willsie Morrow-s best-known novel and a sensitive fictionalised portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taking its title from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. Rather than offering a conventional political biography, Morrow focuses on Lincoln’s moral development, empathy, and inner life, qualities she presents as central to his leadership during a divided and violent period in American history. The book was widely read on publication and helped establish Morrow - already a popular novelist and biographer in the 1920s - as a serious writer of historical fiction, admired for combining careful research with an accessible, humane narrative style.

Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1928 first edition, first printing.

A very good black cloth hardback with gilt titles and blind stamped silhouette design to front cover. With light wear. With original dustjacket - intact and not price-clipped. Some small nibbles to edges and spine a little toned, but very good overall. Now housed in removable, clear protective plastic.

Text is bright and clear throughout. No spotting.

Text in English.

vi + (1) + 342pp.

Dimensions: approx 210mm high x 148mm wide X 39mm deep.

Weight: approximately 567g (unpacked).