Author: Bruce Catton
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1960
Binding: hardcover
Condition: VG/VG
Price: $15.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00111
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Description:
Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust jacket condition: very good. Cover shows minor shelf wear head and tail of spine; tail corners slightly bumped; slight fading front and back boards. Spine of jacket slightly faded; minor shelf wear and rubbing head and tail and corners of wraps; small tear tail of spine. Octavo; 564 pp. Later printing. 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 photo portrait of U. S. Grant, seated, in uniform of major general. Text illustrated with line-drawn maps. Binding, hinges sound; no markings.
In 1950, Lloyd Lewis published Captain Sam Grant, intending it to be the first volume of a trilogy on Grant. He died, however, 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).
