Personal Memoirs of U S Grant

Hardcover. Condition: Good-/Fair. 1885. Charles L Webster. Illustrated. 1st Edition.

The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant are an autobiography, in two volumes, of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. The work focuses on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The volumes were written in the last year of Grant's life, amid increasing pain from terminal throat cancer and in an effort to restore the Grant family's finances and provide for his widow after his bankruptcy at the hands of an early Ponzi scheme. The set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death in July 1885.

Shaken, but still bound. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design.Worn cover with discoloration and some damp spots. First endpaper shows seriour pest damage, but this doesn't translate to body of text which is clean and still well bound. A copy that would benefit from rebinding, though not strictly necessary.