Military and Civil Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Philadelphia, PA ; Chicago, Ill. ; St. Louis, Mo: J. C. McCurdy & Co 1885. 734 pages. Thick 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt and black embossed decorations. "Boyd" at base of spine in circular device. Rear cover with simple embossed rectangular decorations. Decorated endpapers in flower pattern. Frontispiece of Grant by James R. Rice S.C. with facsimile signature printed beneath. Minor wear to the binding including a bit of surface scuffing. Internally occasional smudges from reading. Very Good. cloth. [21755]
An immensely popular book published by a half dozen publishers in the same year, we have been unable to discover any precedence. OCLC/Worldcat shows this publisher to be one of the scarcest, with less than a dozen examples as of this listing.
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