Personal Memoirs Of U.S. Grant. In Two Volumes

ULYSSES S GRANT

Publication: Charles L Webster & Company, 1885, New York

First edition. Volume I: Original three-quarter dark brown morocco with raised bands, gilt lettering, compartments and rules and chocolate cloth with large gilt medallions front and rear covers, marbled decorated endpapers, all edges marbled, frontispiece, [portrait], 584 pp., preface, maps, illustrations, fold-out letter in facsimile. Volume II: Original three-quarter dark brown morocco with raised bands, gilt lettering, compartments and rules and chocolate cloth with large gilt medallions front and rear covers. marbled decorated endpapers, all edges marbled, frontispiece, [portrait], 647 [1] pp., maps, illustrations, conclusion, appendix, index. Volume I spine a tad lighter, though spine gilt-stamping on both volumes bright and sharp; internally tight and fine; small custom late 19th-century bookplate with intertwining "TRJ" initials on both front pastedowns. Discusses his ancestry, birth, boyhood, West Point graduation, and Army life prior to the Civil War. Several chapters on the Civil War, the Mexican–American War, as well as and of the various other campaigns. Superbly tight and handsome first edition of what is generally considered one of the greatest presidential memoirs ever, penned near the end of his life and published very shortly after his death by Mark Twain's son-in-law. An impressive set. You may find a set as nice as this one, but none better.