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Lot 443
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant in Two Volumes
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
(New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885 & 1886), 8vo (9-1/2 in.), green pictorial boards showing a gilt 1863 congressional medal depicting Grant as a Major General; frontispiece engravings of the general in uniform; his signature and dedication are facsimiles.

Signed on front free endpaper, "William W. Castle / Paymaster US.A. / 14th Corps / General George H. Thomas.

Tight binding; gilt rubbed, yet mostly intact; wear to boards from use and light spotting; leaves with light age toning; foxing to engravings and tissue overlays.