"First with the Most" Forrest [Limited Edition, Signed]
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1944. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #49179
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1944]. First Edition Stated, with added "Bedford Edition" signed limitation leaf tipped in at front of volume (limitation unspecified). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 558pp.; halftone frontispiece and eleven leaves of plates (collated complete). Moderate chipping to jacket margins, especially at spine ends, dust jacket price redacted, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on limitation leaf at head of volume.
Biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), Confederate General and first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan. The author and railroad executive Robert Selph Henry (1889-1970) wrote a number of other popular histories of the Civil War, including histories of the Confederacy and Reconstruction as well as his other passion, trains.
Price: $125.00