TRIED BY WAR; Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
New York: The Penguin Press, 2008. B&W Photos, Matthew Brady. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on a publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over brown boards with author's name printed on front cover in gilt, illustrated with double-spread B&W map of "Principal Military Campaigns of the Civil War" and 16 pp. of B&W glossy photos, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Lincoln meeting recalcitrant Gen. McClellan and his staff officers, Index, cover photo expanded for photographic endpapers, xv, [xvi-xviii] + 329 pages. Very Fine / Fine. Item #8948
ISBN: 9781594201912
James M. "Jim" McPherson (born 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. Gold foil "Signed Copy" sticker on dj. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Price: $40.00