Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Interior generally fresh with very light foxing to preliminaries, minor expert archival repair to foldlines of facsimile leaf (I), small marginal closed tear not affecting text (II:617). “Grant’s memoirs comprise one of the most valuable writings by a military commander in history” (Eicher 492). A truly remarkable work” ( New York Times). “No Union list of personal narratives could possibly begin without the story of the victorious general. “It seemed to Twain, sitting quietly near him in his bedroom at Sixtieth Street, that Grant had fully regained the stature of a hero” (Kaplan, 273). Struggling to dictate his notes to a stenographer, Grant finished his memoirs shortly before his death in the summer of 1885. Mark Twain agreed to serve as the publisher.
Octavo, original deluxe three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, circular gilt-stamped medallions on front and rear covers, marbled endpapers and edges.įirst edition of “one of the most valuable writings by a military commander in history,” an exceptional copy containing Grant’s signature on a tipped-in card, illustrated with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps, in handsome publisher’s deluxe binding.Īfter an ineffectual term as president, ruined by bankruptcy and dying of throat cancer, Grant agreed to publish his memoirs to provide a measure of economic security for his family. “A CLASSIC CIVIL WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY”: FIRST EDITION OF GRANT’S MEMOIRS, WITH GRANT’S SIGNATURE, IN DELUXE PUBLISHER’S BINDING
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