Random House. New York. 1974. Quarter-bound in burgundy with black boards and gold lettering on front and spine. Number line on copyright page of this fine edition reads B987654321 without mention of 1993 edition. Unclipped ($21.00) jacket shows mild shelf wear and small dent on top text block. Pictorial endpapers with b/w maps throughout. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1975.
Just a hint of edge rubbing, in like DJ. INSCRIBED BY JEFF SHAARA "For my father's legacy" on title page. Now protected in a mylar jacket.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 400 pages.
This Book is a terrific account of events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, the commanders, the men, and the Battle itself. The Author, Michael Shaara, won the Pulitzer Prize for this work of historical fiction when the First Edition was released in 1974. This Book was required reading for military officers attending the Command and General Staff College in the 1990's. This is rated as the best piece of literature on the Battle of Gettysburg. Book has 374 pages and several maps.
Size: 12x7x1; Signed by Author. Clean, unmarked pages with the exception of soiling to the page edges. The inside of the dust jacket it written on. The dust jacket has a tear that is tape repaired. Bumping along the spine edge.
8vo. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 374pp. Maps. Fine/fine. Just a modern book club edition of what's arguably the greatest Civil War fiction of all and a 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner--but clean and pristine, tight and bright.
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