Sherman, W. T.; PERSONAL MEMOIRS 2 VOLUMES IN 1
New York;, Charles Webster;, 1891 FOURTH ED, HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: FAIR
Fourth Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Complete, With An Appendix, Bringing His Life Down to Its Closing Scenes, Also A Personal Tribute and Critique of the Memoris by Hon. James G. Blaine.Light wear to edges of boards and spine. Gilt lettering to spine. Front and back hinge crack. All edges browning. Black and white frontispiece. Mark Twain was the publisher of this monumental memoir as well as its editor and proof reader. Twain was extremely fond of and a close friend of Grant and encouraged the President and war hero to write his memoirs. Grant was dying of cancer but completed his two volumes dictating the second volume to a secretary. Twain noted in a letter to his daughter that the manuscript was not even set yet and 20,000 sets had been ordered by subscription. Grant finished his memoirs on July 18, 1885 and died five days later on July 23rd. Following his death, advance orders of the memoirs reached 300,000 sets realizing close to $450,000 for his family which was otherwise penniless.
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