Hardcover
1941 · New York
by ADAMS, James Truslow
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Five volume set incomplete. Small quartos. Illustrated in black and white from paintings, etchings, cartoons, and photographs by various artists such as N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, F.C. Yohn, Albert Herter, August Kollner, Wellstood, Currier, Winslow Homer, Edwin Abbey, John S. Sargent, Edwin Forbes, Joseph Pennell, W.A. Rogers, and more. Uniform gilt-stamped blue leatherette with volume five being brad-bound. Pages lightly age-toned, cloth modestly soiled, corners bumped, volume five has some foxing on the pages, a very good set. Five volume set: Volume I: "The Rise of the Union", Volume II: "A Half-Century of Expansion", Volume III: "Civil War and Reconstruction", Volume IV: "America and World Power", and Volume V: "First Part of Annual Chronicle Which Will Cover Ultimately a Period of Ten Years. (Inventory #: 112880)