Andersonville.

KANTOR, MacKinlay.

Item Number: 116421

Cleveland & New York: World Publishing, 1955.

Early printing of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Alice Tyler Affectionately MacKinley Kantor 29 July 1974.” The recipient, Alice Tyler was a philanthropist, along with her husband John the founders of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Science. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, bookplate of the recipient to the pastedown.

Andersonville tells the story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War. "The best Civil War novel I have ever read, without question" (Bruce Catton).