This is a significant 1938 first one-volume edition of Marquis James’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece,
The Life of Andrew Jackson. Published by Bobbs-Merrill, this specific release is the "First Edition Thus," representing the first time James’s two separate works—
The Border Captain and
Portrait of a President—were united into a single, definitive narrative. This unified edition was released shortly after the work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, cementing its status as a cornerstone of American historical literature.
A highlight of this copy is the preservation of the illustrated endpaper maps. These maps, which trace Jackson’s movement through the American frontier and the changing landscape of the young Republic, remain crisp and color-fast. For the collector of presidential history or Pulitzer Prize-winning literature, this first printing of the complete one-volume edition offers a superb blend of scholarly depth and aesthetic preservation.