Description
The signed first edition, first printing of The New History of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose, with original text by C.L. Sulzberger.
Quarto, [12], 628pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated first printing, with a full number line on copyright page. In the publisher’s illustrated dust jacket, $50.00 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, a near fine example.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Bill – Best Wishes – S.E. Ambrose / Bismarck 4/28/98.”
Published by Viking in New York in 1997, this revised and updated edition is based on Sulzberger’s earlier American Heritage Picture History of World War II, first published in 1966.
