Author: Bruce Catton
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1968
Binding: hardcover
Condition: VG/VG
Price: $19.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00112
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Description:
Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust jacket condition: very good. Cover shows minor shelf wear head and tail of spine; slight soiling head of spine and head of back board; corners sharp. Spine of jacket sunned; slight rubbing at head; else, near fine. Octavo; 556 pp. First edition stated. Gilt lettering on dark blue cloth boards; gilt emblem of officer’s hat and saber on front cover. Top edge of textblock dyed yellow; blue endpapers. Frontispiece b/w photographic portrait of U. S. Grant, standing, in camp at Cold Harbor in 1864. Text illustrated with line-drawn maps. Binding, hinges sound; no markings.
In 1950, Lloyd Lewis published Captain Sam Grant. Lewis intended it to be the first volume of a trilogy on Grant, but he died shortly thereafter without writing volumes two and three. Catton was chosen to inherit Lewis’s copious notes and to continue the project. Building on Lewis’s research, Catton completed the series with Grant Moves South (1960) and Grant Takes Command (1968).
