2 volumes, 8vos. Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards in each volume, folding facsimile letter tipped-in vol. 1; folding map and facsimile document in vol. 2; numerous maps and wood engraving throughout. Original green cloth lettered in gilt and stamped with central gilt medallions to covers, spines titled in gilt and stamped with 4-star shoulder straps (fresh endpapers in vol.2, light rubbing at spine ends, front hinge tender in vol.1).

FIRST EDITION of Grant’s classic memoirs. Ulysses S. Grant completed his memoirs shortly before his death from throat cancer in 1885. The set was published by Mark Twain and became one of the bestselling books of the nineteenth century.