HALL CARBINE AFFAIR AN ESSAY IN HISTORIOGRAPHY SIGNED AND BOXED)

Danbury 1941 Privately Printed. True first edition. **Limited to 100 copies after which type was broken up - this is copy No. 58. Concerns an episode in the Civil War in which J. Pierpont Morgan is alleged to have sold the Government some condemned guns at an exorbitant profit. Large octavo, 184pp., folding charts, index, printed brown paper wraps in matching brown paper covered box. ***Signed by Wasson presentation to Ralph Dawson.Photo illus the carbine as frontispiece. Book is VG plus to Near Fine, almost no wear but does have a very few pages at the end with neat ink lines underlining and marks affecting a word or two or in margin only, presumably by Dawson ( underlining does not look like it was done by a book owner - too neatly done.) Box is VG with light wear, a few minor stains, but no tears. Very scarce. Wonderful gift for the gun enthusiast.