Spine straight, binding tight and pages crisp. Book is like new clean and crisp with no writing or names. Three raised spine bands, patterned endpapers and sewn-in satin bookmark. Bound in navy leather stamped in gold with gilt stained page ends. First Edition thus (1990), Third Printing. However, if you really want a view of the War Between the States that is more like a visit with a time machine, then you must imbibe the genius of Catton. I know it has been fashionable for many of the newer voices in the field to garner attention. He tries to be impartial, but perhaps surprisingly I sense an admiration for the colorful soldiers of the South slipping into the texture of his prose.

And though he is a Yankee, he strives very hard to be impartial. His insight makes you believe he was there, that he lived through it, coming from his years of listening to the veterans in his hometown. Bruce Catton writes like no other about the American Civil War. This is the third book in the trilogy of the Army of the Potomac. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A handsome, nearly-new reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaw. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a hint of tanning to the text pages, due to aging else flawless the binding is square and secure the text clean.

A stillness at appomattox first edition