Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant [Two volume set]

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. Very Good. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. First Edition, shoulder strap edition. Two large octavo volumes. Green cloth with gilt medallions to fronts and backs and gilt lettering. 584pp. & 647pp. All maps, illustrations, and foldouts present including frontispieces with tissue guards; floral endpapers. Boards lightly worn at extremities; brief exposure to slightly bumped corners; some scuffing and spotting to cloth sizing; heavier wear to volume I along spine, possibly a married set. Bindings sound. Contemporary gift inscription at volume I preliminaries from Civil War veteran George H. Alfred of Attleboro, MA to his son Edmund. A handsome, Very Good set.

Nevins notes: "Written frantically while in a race with death, these recollections rank with the best of the Civil War Period." [Nevins II-59]. Mark Twain added that it was the best work of its kind since Caesar's Commentaries.