x, 648 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Custer; wood-engraved plates & vignetted within. 20.7x12.7 cm (8¼x5"), original brown cloth decoratively stamped in black, lettered in gilt.
Reprint of Whittaker's Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer, with the same collation. Dustin calls the work, "so far as it relates to the last battle...a tissue of violently prejudiced misstatements."
Condition:
Slight vertical steak of white residue to spine, a touch of rubbing to extremities, still a fine, bright, tight copy, apparently never read