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GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Personal Memoirs of U.S. Gra...

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GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. 2 volume set. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards in each volume, folding facsimile letter in vol. 1; folding map and facsimile document (sprung and laid-in; several tape repairs to document) in vol. 2; numerous maps and wood engraving throughout. Publisher?s green cloth titled in gilt and stamped with central gilt medallions to covers, spines titled in gilt and stamped with 4-star shoulder straps, floral printed endpapers (interior hinges professionally reinforced, few scuffs to boards, ends slightly frayed, corners bumped and rubbed, number stamp on both frontispiece rectos). A FRESH INTERIOR. Published by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (?Mark Twain?).