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Title: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grantby Ulysses S. Grant
First edition, in the publisher’s half morocco bindingPublisher and Year: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885 (Vol. 1) and 1886 (Vol. 2)
Edition: First edition, first printing, in the publisher’s half morocco binding.
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, bound in morocco leather and cloth stamped in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, frontispieces with tissue guards, several other plates with tissue guards within. Vol. 1: 584 pp.; Vol. 2: 654 pp. (+index, errata). Complete, with all pages, tissue guards, and fold-outs present. Both volumes with firm hinges and secure binding; mild sunning to the spines; mild rubbing to the cloth and leather; and some soiling and staining. Pages generally clean and bright, with very occasional minor imperfections.
“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this.”
