Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822?1885). Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. 2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, folding facsimile letter tipped?in Volume I, folding map and facsimile document in Vol. 2, numerous maps and wood?engravings throughout. Original half?morocco gilt with central medallions on both covers, raised bands, gilt?lettering and centerpieces in compartments including the 4?star shoulder straps, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers (joints and extreme ends a bit rubbed, also some rubbing along bands, head chipped on Vol. II with old repair to lower joint near head). FIRST EDITION of Grant?s classic memoirs published by Mark Twain in the deluxe publisher?s binding.