A Stillness at Appomattox
By Bruce Catton. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, (1983.) Privately printed leatherbound edition for subscribers to Franklin's Library of Pulitzer Classics.
A history of the last year of the Civil War, recounting the Union campaigns in Virginia from early 1864 to the Confederate surrender in April 1865. The final book of the Army of the Potomac trilogy. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
438 pp. Color frontispiece + double-page map of Virginia. Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon page marker, and gilt page edges. Nice collectible condition. Like New overall with only minor marks to the gilt edges. Clean and securely bound. No owner signatures, bookplates, or other flaws. Free US shipping in a sturdy box.