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Lot Description

GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Personal Memoirs. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-86.

2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispieces, folding facsimile letter tipped-in vol. I, folding map and facsimile document in vol. 2, numerous maps and wood-engravings throughout. Original gilt-lettered green cloth, covers with central gilt medallions (very gently rubbed at feet and fore-corner edges, else fine).

FIRST EDITION of Grant’s classic memoirs published by Mark Twain, who considered the work “the best memoirs of a general since Caesar."

Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie

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