Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (first edition)

U.s. Grant

Published by Webster, NEW YORK, 1885

About this Item

Near fine clean bright condition 130 year old books.PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U.S.GRANT. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., Very Good Originals! 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First printing edition of both volumes in original beautiful leather bindings with leather and gilt trimmed . With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontis portraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards. Fine clean interrior. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile.An unusually well preserved set in very very good condition for 130 year old books! An important historical memoir of the Civil War! The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican?American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of throat cancer in 1885. The two-volume set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.

Seller Inventory # 100000433

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (first edition)
• Publisher: Webster, NEW YORK
• Publication Date: 1885
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Edition: First PRINTING
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Civil War
  • HISTORY