With the author's 'A Special Message to Subscribers from William B. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. The paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove Cream, typeface is 10-point Baskerville. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, in a limited signed edition of the 1961 first volume of Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. Very Near Fine, with one area of rubbing to the gilt of the fore edge, otherwise flawless throughout. Full, rich, deep gray-green leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, gray moire endpapers, with matching satin page-marker ribbon. Octavo, 563 pp., chapter-top illustrations by Hal Just, and several maps and charts throughout. Includes the rather scarce 22-page "Notes from the Editors", which accompanied this edition in its original shipment, itself pristine. Signed by Bruce Catton in green ink on the third free end paper. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980.
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