Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant in Two Volumes
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. 1st Edition. 8vo. Very Good. Item #18393
A very nice trade Edition of Grant's Memoirs, in much better condition than most.
The story of Grant and his magnum opus remains just as riveting today as it was nearly 140 years ago. Nearly destitute in his later life, Grant wrote his memoirs as a means to support his family after he was gone. He finished them just three days before he perished and with the help of his good friend Mark Twain, who served as editor, the work would become wildly successful and become generally regarded as the greatest memoir ever written.
To spur sales of the memoir, Twain came up with the brilliant idea of dressing former Union soldiers in their old uniforms and sending them door to door across the country to obtain subscriptions.
Maps, Illustrations and large fold-outs. Green cloth gilt with large gilt medallions to boards. Gilt to spines. Tight Bindings, with the spine of volume I a bit slanted. Clean interiors. Mild rubbing and edge wear. All four hinges are nice and tight, with the rear hinge of volume I showing the slightest paper separation at the top. Spine edges and corners lightly frayed.
A lovely and desirable set.
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