New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885 & 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Front endpaper of the second volume detached but present; bright and clean internally. Minor markings to bindings. Handsome, Near Fine set in a Fine slipcase. Two volumes in full modern polished calf leather with original marbled endpapers and edges and original contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Housed in a modern linen slipcase. With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontispiece portraits and two etched views, all with tissue-guards, as well as holograph facsimiles of Grant's writing. The binding was professionally accomplished in 1992 at a cost, with the slipcase, of over four hundred dollars with the original receipt for the work included, and is a fairly faithful replica of the scarce original sheep binding.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 021409
Title: PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT
Author: GRANT, Ulysses S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Front endpaper of the second volume detached but present; bright and clean internally. Minor markings to bindings. Handsome, Nea
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1885 & 1886
Keywords: Civil War, Biography, Presidents, Americana, Autobiography
Bookseller catalogs: Americana; Civil War; Autobiography; Presidents;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Charles Agvent

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