“SEEING LEE’S LIFE THROUGH LEE’S OWN EYES”: FREEMAN’S BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT E. LEE
FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. R.E. Lee: A Biography. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934-36. Four volumes. Octavo, original red cloth, original box.
Mixed first and early edition of Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Confederate general.
Freeman, the son of a former Confederate soldier who served in the Army of Northern Virginia, “was invited in 1915 to write a biography of Lee for Scribner’s… He identified with him strongly, seeing Lee’s life through Lee’s own eyes. His biographical method produced an ample, empathetic, and ruminative treatment, abundantly researched and documented, a triumph of scholarly tribute” (DAB). Profusely illustrated with full-page photographs, facsimiles, maps, and battle plans. Volume III is first edition, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page; other volumes are early editions, published within a year of the first editions. Dornbusch II:2930. Haynes 6441.
Wear to scarce original slipcase; books fine.