The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant [Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant] and The First Lady as an Author.

GRANT, Julia Dent; Ralph G. Newman; Bruce Catton.

Item Number: 145105

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975.

First edition of First Lady Julia Dent Grant’s collection of memoirs, published for the first time, posthumously, nearly seventy-three years after her death. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Very good in a very good dust jacket, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.  Illustrated with photographs of the Grant family and others. Edited with notes and foreword by John Y. Simon with introduction by Bruce Catton.

A publication of major historical importance, 'The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant' tells the story of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant's life, from childhood through the Civil War, to the White House, widowhood, and beyond.