Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights that Followed – The Nation in Mourning, the Long Trip Home to Springfield.

KUNHARDT, Dorothy Meserve; Bruce Catton.

$40.00

Item Number: 146571

Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1977.

Later edition of this incredibly detailed snapshot of American history based on eyewitness accounts. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout with over three hundred black and white drawings, paintings, and photographs from the photographic collection of Frederick Hill Meserve. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brendan F. Mulvey.

In 1897, Frederick Hill Meserve began acquiring pictures to illustrate his father's experience of the Civil War. In time, he became the greatest collector of Civil War photographs and was recognized as a highly respected Abraham Lincoln scholar. His daughter, Dorothy Meserve inherited his interest and worked alongside prominent American historian and journalist Bruce Catton to produce their photographic biography of Lincoln's assassination, 'Twenty Days.' "Here is one of the pivotal tragedies in our national story, now so completely familiar that we think we have it by heart. Yet there is still something for us to learn about it, and now in this extraordinary book we have the opportunity to do so" (from the Foreword by by Bruce Catton).