[Rarebooks] fs: America's greatest nonfiction book?

[Back Creek Books]

...so argues Mark Perry in "Grant and Twain," and we won't disagree. We are 
pleased to offer:
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(No. 9236 )  Grant, U[lysses]. S[impson]. (1822-1885). PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF 
U. S. GRANT, IN TWO VOLUMES.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. First printings, Original 
cloth, Octavos, 584 & 647 pages, Black & white engraved plates, maps, 
facsimiles. Very Good.
      The greatest American military memoir, written by the financially 
ruined Grant in a race against death, and published with the savvy 
assistance of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). The work is written with the same 
calm, clarity, and force that characterized Grant's orders. Luckily for us 
and for his family, Grant finished just 4 days before he died in July, 1885. 
Volume I was then published in December of 1885, and at the end of February, 
1886 Clemens was able to present Grant's widow, Julia, with the largest 
publishing royalty in U.S. history to that time--$200,000. Clemens declared 
it a literary masterpiece, and most subsequent critics concur. DORNBUSCH, 
Vol. II, #1986; EICHER #492; MULLINS, UNION BOOKSHELF #35; NEVINS, CWB Vol. 
II, p. 59. Errata printed at end of volume II. Bound in dark green cloth 
over boards with spines lettered in gilt, decorated in black and gilt, upper 
boards titled in gilt with gilt medallions, decorated endpapers, 
tissue-guarded frontispieces. Bindings show some spotting, particularly 
upper board of volume I. There are minor extremity rubs to both volumes and 
a touch of rubbing to medallion on upper board of volume I. Interiors are 
exceptionally clean and sound with solid bindings, no cracked endpapers or 
hinges, and just a bit of minor foxing to frontispiece in volume II. 
$250.00
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Today's featured book from our stock at the booksellers' cooperative, 
TomFolio.com:
 Smith, C[harles]. Ernest.  'Religion Under the Barons of Baltimore. 
(Inscribed and Signed).'
 Details and secure ordering: 
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