Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (first edition)
by U.s. Grant
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
NEW YORK: Webster, 1885. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First PRINTING. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 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..
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- Bookseller
- RARE PRINT BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100000433
- Title
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (first edition)
- Author
- U.s. Grant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First PRINTING
- Publisher
- Webster
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- U.S. GRANT
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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