1955 Andersonville

Description

First Edition, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

One of one thousand signed copies of the first edition, of which five hundred are for private distribution. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding. 

This novel interweaves the stories of real and fictional characters, all of which centre around the notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison. Acclaimed as the greatest novel written about the War Between the States, 'Andersonville' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the year after its publication. 

Written by American journalist, novelist and screenwriter MacKinlay Kantor. Another of his novels, 'Glory for Me', was the basis for the film 'The Best Years of Our Lives', which won seven Oscars and became the highest-grossing film since 'Gone with the Wind'.