Description: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant in Two Volumes, Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1885, two frontispiece depicting Grant as a younger man and in older age, one fold-out letter plate, multiple full-page maps and cartouche engravings, original calf skin leather bindings, 9.5 x 6.5”, thick 8vo. In good minus condition. Volume one: Moderate wear to extremities with heavy scuffing to corners and and surface of leather. Instances of peeling at edges. Numerous scuff marks and areas of light soiling to surface. End bands chipped significantly with loss at head and tail. Board exposed. Joints tender with splitting at inner hinges. Marbled end papers clean. All edges marbled, albeit toned. Interior lightly toned with scattered foxing, particularly at plates. Light offsetting from plates. Fold-out plate in good working order. Free of known markings. Binding intact. Volume Two: Moderate wear to extremities with heavy scuffing to corners and and surface of leather. Instances of peeling at edges. Numerous scuff marks and areas of light soiling to surface. Red crayons mark slashed along front board. End bands scuffed slightly with dryness. Joints tender, rear joint cracking and nearly detached. Joints tender with splitting at inner hinges. Marbled end papers clean. All edges marbled, albeit toned. Interior lightly toned with scattered foxing, particularly at plates. Light offsetting from plates. Free of known markings. Binding intact. Please see photos. First edition of both volumes with 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel engraved portraits and two etched views, all with tissue guards. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably considered Grant’s magnum opus. General Norman Schwartzkopf called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Increasingly scarce in this first edition with original deluxe binding. RAREA1885COPN
Price: 600 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Year Printed: 1885
Topic: U.S. Presidents
Binding: Leather
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Subject: U.S. Civil War
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
