[Rarebooks] fs: Catton. Army of the Potomac, SIGNED on/at Gettysburg Centennial

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings,

Back Creek Books is pleased to offer:
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Catton, Bruce (1899-1978). THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC (SIGNED) [3 VOLUMES: 
MR. LINCOLN'S ARMY, GLORY ROAD, AND A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1952-1962). Later printings, 
Hardcovers, Octavos, About 1200 pages in all, Map drawings. very good in 
very good dust jackets, Jackets in Mylar protectors.
          Catton's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning 
trilogy of the Union Army in the Civil War. See EICHER #1025. Catton has 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED the first volume (Mr. Lincoln's Army) on the front 
free endpaper. The inscription, penned at Gettysburg exactly 100 years 
after the battle there, reads: "Gettysburg, Penna. / July 4th 1963 / 
History Student-- / Remember this date / and place and the / events of a 
hundred / years ago. / With best wishes / Bruce Catton". Minimal edge 
wear to bindings, volume III has some brown spotting to fore edge of 
textblock. Jackets of all three volumes have some minor edge wear, 
slight fading to spines. All jackets have the original price of $12.50 
for the set of three intact, though volume I appears to be from a 
different set with spine bound with paper rather than cloth....... 
$150.00
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