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GRANT, U[lysses] S.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Publisher: New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885-6
Stock code: 43635
Price: £1,000 Currency Conversion
First edition. Mark Twain was resounding in his praise of Grant's prose: "this is the simple soldier, who, all untaught of the silken phrase-makers, linked words together with an art surpassing the art of the schools and put into them a something which will still bring to American ears, as long as America shall last, the roll of his vanished drums and the tread of his marching hosts." That Twain was essentially the publisher of the work should not entirely devalue his judgement. Grant's autobiography sold over 300,000 sets and has remained continually in print since its first appearance.
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher's de luxe brown half morocco, gilt medallic roundels to the boards, spine gilt in compartments, edges marbled. Engraved portrait frontispiece, one etched plate and one folding facsimile to each, 47 full-page plans in all, folding map at the rear of Volume II. Small ownership stamp to the first blanks, light browning, slightly rubbed, else a very good set.
