Grant Moves South by CATTON, Bruce - 1960

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1960. BCE. Hardcover. Book club edition. The Civil War historian Bruce Catton tells of the rise of Ulysses S. Grant from disgrace to heading one of the great armies, the Army of the Tennessee. With frontis photographic portrait of Grant, and with several maps. --- In navy cloth-covered boards with sword-and-hat design in gilt to cover; spine titling & decorations also in gilt. Volume wrapped in jacket with Joe Covello photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- With the beginnings of a split at front hinge and prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a sound, sturdy copy. Dust jacket with a few small tears to edges and chips near head of spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (14), 564 pages .