The Johnstown Flood.
“The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes": First Edition of The Johnstown Flood; Inscribed by David McCullough
The Johnstown Flood.
MCCULLOUGH, David.
$800.00
Item Number: 146412
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Rogers David McCullough.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
"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).
