![]() 1st trade edition, 2 volumes, frontispiece, illustrated, maps. Minor head and tail band wear, scuffing to medallion on vol. Still in print today, it is considered the gold standard of the Memoir genre and is considered by many as the finest memoir of any of our presidents, rivaled only by Eisenhower’s Crusade in Europe. In the end, Grant’s widow Julia received about $450,000. Grants Personal Memoirsto this day held up as among the finest of the many. Each copy contained what looked like a handwritten note from Grant himself a note that vexes booksellers to this day. When Hiram Ulysses Grant was born, his home state of Ohio was the. They sold 350,000 two-volume sets at prices from $3.50 to $12 (depending on the binding). Ten thousand agents canvassed the North, following a script Twain had devised many were themselves veterans who dressed in their old uniforms. Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil Wars greatest general and former president wrote his. Twain created a unique marketing system designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as Grant’s death was being mourned. This is one of three states for the original first edition, at once the most common and the most sought after by collectors. ![]() Webster Company (Mark Twain’s firm) shortly after Grant’s death. ![]() Written as Grant was dying of cancer in 1885, the two-volume set was published by Charles L. Grant, the Green Shoulder Strap First Trade Edition. One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grants landmark memoir, and. ![]()
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