Ulysses S Grant First Edition 1886 Personal Memoirs Of U S Grant Hardcover

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Personal Memoirs Of U. S. Grant

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Ulysses S. Grant

Hardcover. Large 8vo. Charles L. Webster and Co, New York. 1886. 2 volumes. 584; 647 pgs.Illustrated with 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontispiece portraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards. Also with the dedication from Grant in printed holograph. First edition/First Printing.

Bound in green cloth with gilt medals present to the boards and gilt titled spines. Boards have  shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown; name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

President Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Arnold, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed these works as great literature, and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Yet a judiciously annotated clarifying edition of these memoirs has never been produced until now.

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant preserves and extends a work of profound political, historical, and literary significance and serves as the gateway for modern readers of all backgrounds to an American classic. Grant provides insight into how rigorously these events tested America’s democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order.