GRANT, Ulysses S.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

Item #74176

GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. 1st ed. 2 Vols. 584;647,[1, errata]pp. Portrait frontises., plates (some folding), maps. Orig. 3/4 gilt-ruled black morocco, gilt-pictorial cloth, raised spine bands, compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Very good. The "shoulder strap edition" with four stars on spine." Seldom seen in such fine condition and considerably rarer than the cloth should strap edition. "Bruce Catton places Grant's memoirs on the top of his list of Civil War classics"--The Union Bookshelf 35. "Written frantically while in a race with death, these recollections rank with the best of the Civil War period"--Nevins II, p.59.

Price: $1,750.00