The Johnstown Flood.
“The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes": First Edition of David McCullough’s First Book The Johnstown Flood; Signed by Him
The Johnstown Flood.
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Item Number: 4606
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed by David McCullough in a contemporary hand on the half-title page. Tiny address label on the front free endpaper and some rubbing, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears.
"A first rate example of the documentary method....Mr. McCullough is a good writer and painstaking reporter and he has re-created that now almost mythic cataclysm...with the thoroughness the subject demands" (The New Yorker).
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