The Johnstown Flood.
“The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes": First Edition of David McCullough’s First Book The Johnstown Flood; Signed by Him
The Johnstown Flood.
MCCULLOUGH, David.
$1,050.00
Item Number: 100982
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Signed by David McCullough on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. With the original advertising pamphlet laid in.
"A first rate example of the documentary method....Mr. McCullough is a good writer and painstaking reporter and he has re-created that now almost mythic cataclysm...with the thoroughness the subject demands" (The New Yorker).
