RUSSELL, Don - Custer's Last or, the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Picturesque Perspective Being a Pictorial Representation of the Late and Unfortunate Incident in Montana As Portrayed by Custer's Friends and Foes, Admirers and Iconoclasts of His Day and After

N.p. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth, pictorial dust jacket. v, 67pp. Numerous illustrations (2 in color). Very good/good plus. Binding ever so slightly edgeworn; jacket has large chip at head of spine, small chip at foot of spine and chips along lower edge of front panel. A tight and fairly attractive first edition, with a unique autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Russell, 1p, 8" X 9½", Elmhurst, IL, 1956 July 21. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold Gates. Near fine. On letterhead of the "Standard Education Society," Russell discusses reviewing a book on Quantrill -- most likely for "Civil War Times," for which Gates was book review editor. "I took a somewat odd angle, for me, in the review," Russell notes. "If it doesn't hit you right, say so.." Large full signature. Autograph material from Civil War scholar Russell (1899-?) is seldom encountered. .

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