Description
First edition of R.E. Lee: A Biography, inscribed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Douglas Southall Freeman.
Octavo, [four volumes]. Bound in publisher’s red cloth, title in gilt on spines. All first printings with “Scribner’s A” on copyright pages. Illustrated with hundreds of maps, photographs and drawings, frontispiece portrait in each volume. Housed in publisher’s scarce slipcases, illustrated with photographs of R.E. Lee, both worn but stable. Includes the publisher’s glassine dust jackets, with some tears and chips, scarce in any condition.
(Dornbusch II, 2930) (Eicher 262)
This set is signed in Volume I by the author: “Inscribed for Samuel M. Frostick / Douglas Southall Freeman.”
Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 – 1953) won the Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee in 1935. He considered his work, Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study In Command, to be his finest work. In 1958, he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his last work, George Washington: A Biography. From Eicher: “…characterized by brilliant writing, a necessary part of any Confederate bookshelf.”
