$65.00 prepublication price (until December 31, 2003) at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf (w/ $75.00 thereafter), EXCELLENT silk-finish black linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles brilliantly gilt-stamped across top of front panel & on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE ocher-gold card-stock end-papers BUT w/ partially cosmetically MARRED right rear panel as noted above, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & gilt-silk banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ SPLENDID clarity on SUPERB unblemished acid-free gloss-laminated archival paper w/ texts HANDSOMELY presented amidst a RICH panoply of color & b-w illustrations * 8.64' x 11.24' x 1.88', 2.88 kg, xiv+786 (800) pp.

line at 1 MARRED ONLY w/ faint library stamp & brief library notations on title page & w/ abraded right rear end-paper panel due to removal of library-security patch, FINE color-illustrated unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. November 2003) First Printing w/ full no. A TREASURE: BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED: MAGNIFICENT: LUCID: CLASSIC: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: NEAR FINE First Edition hardcover (Orig. More than 700 illustrations, including 150 in full-color, & 24 full-color maps (illustrator).

The illustrated battle cry of freedom