R.E. Lee by Freeman, Douglas Southern Classics Library # 28717 Oxmore House, 1982 Hardback in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cover is Moroccan leather over boards with brass die stamping and is very clean, Endpapers covered in moiré fabric. 22-karat gold spine decoration. Raised spine bands. Gold gilded page edges, ribbon bookmarker intact. This is an abridged edition of all four volumes in one. Freeman was asked by Scribner's in 1915 to write a Biography on Lee. That work ended up being four vols. This is an abridgement of that work. Starting with Lee's early life and family, his years as a cadet, marriage, family and the Civil War, its aftermath, life and death of this great general. Loaded with Illustrated with color and B&W maps and photographs, index, 601 pages. >
