Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad, in Peace and War.

MCCLURE, J.B. [Ulysses S. Grant].

Item Number: 146820

Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, Publishers, 1879.

First edition of McClure’s compilation of the speeches, wartime and travel memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial green cloth stamped in black and gold, peach endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of Grant. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, name to the front endpaper. A bright example.

McClure's Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant contains anecdotes from Grant's boyhood, studies at West Point, marriage, role in the Civil War, years as President of the United States, and travels around the world.