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GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Personal Memoirs of... New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886.
2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, folding facsimile letter tipped-in Volume I, folding map and facsimile document in Vol. 2, numerous maps and wood-engravings throughout (some light offsetting from frontispieces to titles). Original gilt-lettered green cloth, covers with central gilt medallions (spines a touch sunned, few spots of light rubbing to extremes).
FIRST EDITION of Grant’s classic memoirs published by Mark Twain, who considered the work “the best memoirs of a general since Caesar”.