First Edition of McClellan's Own Story

George B. McClellan. MCCLELLAN'S OWN STORY: THE WAR FOR THE UNION, THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IT, THE CIVILIANS WHO DIRECTED IT, AND HIS RELATIONS TO IT AND TO THEM. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First edition. Half leather over pebbled boards, gilt and red medallion on upper board, re-backed with portions of the original backstrip preserved, with marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. 8vo; xiv, [1]-678pp. with index. With portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, (3) maps, (9) illustrations, and a 2-page facsimile letter. Eicher 539; Nevins I, p. 124.

9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.

Nevins calls this "A classic rationalization by one of the war's most controversial figures" (p. 124). Eicher notes that "the historical narrative retains great value for showing McClellan's amazing faults" (p. 188).

Sturdy boards with wear to extremities, corners, and original backstrip, and some restoration to leather; paste-downs with tape and tape residue, and one with a tear; cracking at hinges, and gutter cracking at xi with gathering of preliminaries loose; interior lightly toned with occasional pencil writing, rare light spotting, one leaf with 1-in. tear, and rear endpaper formerly attached to final index page with associated small loss.