Ulysses S. Grant.

COOLIDGE, Louis A. [Ulysses S. Grant; William Tecumseh Sherman].

$1,600.00

Item Number: 145876

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924.

Later edition of this biography of the eighteenth president of the United States; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in each volume. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes beneath his ownership signature with an additional gift inscription on the title page of Vol. I. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels of both volumes. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this set was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania. A nice association.

Louis Arthur Coolidge was an American journalist and Treasury official who served under Treasury Secretaries George B. Cortelyou and Franklin MacVeagh during the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. His biography of President Ulysses S. Grant was first published in 1917 as part of the 'American Statesmen' series.