Description
The first edition, first printing of The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman.
Octavo, xii, [4], 511pp. Black cloth, title in silver on spine and front panel. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Small brown spot along fore edge of text block, internally clean. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $6.95 on front flap, a few short closed tears to both panels, light sunning to spine, a bright, very good example.
A scarce first edition of this award winning work by Barbara Tuchman.
The Guns of August, written by Barbara Tuchman, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1963, establishing Tuchman’s reputation as a skilled historian and narrative writer.
