Description
The Pulitzer Prize edition of R.E. Lee: A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman, in the publisher’s shipping crate.
Octavo, [four volumes]. Bound in publisher’s blue-gray leatherette, title in gilt on spines. All volumes printed in 1936, after the award of the Pulitzer Prize for this work. All in near fine condition, light dust along top edge. Previous ownership stamp on front paste down of each volume. Solid text block, free of any marks or notations. Includes the publisher’s “600 question” pamphlet about the life of R.E. Lee. Illustrated with hundreds of maps, photographs, and drawings. Housed in publisher’s wood shipping crate, title and publisher printed on side panel, writing with black marker bottom corner.
A scarce set in the original shipping crate.
Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 – 1953) was a Pulitzer Prize winning historian. He is considered one of the finest American historical writers, and his works made him one of the leading historians of his day. He won the Pulitzer Prize for this four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee in 1935, though he believed his work, Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study In Command, to be his finest book. In 1958, Freeman was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his last work, George Washington: A Biography.
