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“AN EPIC TALE OF TRUE GREATNESS”: FIRST EDITION OF WASHINGTON, SIGNED BY RON CHERNOW

CHERNOW, Ron. Washington. A Life. New York: Penguin, 2010. Octavo, original green and gold paper boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.  

First edition of Chernow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of America’s Founding Father, signed on the title page by Chernow.

Awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and named one of the Wall Street Journal‘s Ten Best Books of 2010, Chernow’s Washington won immediate praise as “the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written” (Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books). A “truly gripping biography” (New Yorker), it is “an epic tale of true greatness and enormous self-sacrifice” (New Republic). With 16 pages of illustrations. Title page with small date of “10/9/10” in an unidentified hand.

Only trace of rubbing to bright dust jacket. A fine signed copy.