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[LEE, Robert Edward (1807–1870)]. –– FREEMAN, Douglas Southall (1886–1953). R. E. Lee: A Biography. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934–35. 4 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations from photographs, maps, facsimiles, etc. Original publisher’s gilt–lettered red cloth. Provenance: Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (bookplate in first 3 volumes), eldest child of inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr. and president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. FIRST EDITION (Volume IV is a later printing), of Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of the Confederate general. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in Volume I.