signed Hardcover
1864 · New York
by PARTON, James
New York: Mason Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown pebble-grained cloth with gilt spine lettering. 661pp, (1p ad). Two frontispieces, 2 maps. Very good. Binding gently edgeworn; bit of foxing and age toning to frontispieces; large ownership signature/city on front flyleaf and inner flyleaf. A tight and nice later (11th) printing of this bestselling account (first published the year prior) of the controversial Union general -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a bold signature of Parton in brown ink on a 2 3/4" X 1¼" slip with "1870" penned beneath in another hand. Very good. Parton (1822-91) was an English-born American journalist (truncated)