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Lot 297

[CIVIL WAR] Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol. 1 & 2

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Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.

 

2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait with additional illustrations, facsimiles (2 folding), and maps. Premium binding with morocco leather over cloth, marbled endpapers and edges. FIRST EDITION.


Completed three days before his death, the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant are among the finest from any U.S. president. 


[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Books, Bibles, Soldiers' Bibles, Prayer Books, Ephemera, Pamphlets, Publications, Booklets, Memoirs]

Condition

Vol. I lacking frontispiece 

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