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Lot: 1154

"The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant." Ulysses S. Grant. New York, Charles L. Webster, 1885. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo, green cloth with gilt medallion illustrations, spine, and lettering. Owner?s pen identifications on free endpapers. Boards bumped, rubbed, and scuffed, with minor fraying at spine ends; binding shaken at endpapers. Map index in vol. II detached but present. Overall Good, mainly tight interiors. Grant wrote the memoirs at the urging of his friend Samuel Clemens as a way to provide for his family after having been swindled out of his life savings. He finished it on his deathbed and it became a huge success. Estimate US$ 400-500

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