The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant [INSCRIBED BY SIMON IN VOLS. 4 AND 5]
Carbondale, Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on black leather labels of spine, in original tan dustjackets with black lettering and ruling on spine. Top edges variant light reds or white. Inscribed "For Jim Richards, friend and patron, with many thanks. John Y. Simon, October 9, 1997" on front free endpapers of vols. 4 and 5, the latter dated December 23, 1997.
"For many Americans, the eighteenth President of the United States has been an image rather than a man, and because he embodied so many of the characteristic virtues and faults of his time and symbolized Union victory in the Civil War this image has reflected the somewhat mixed feelings of Americans about their past... [and] Grant's life before the Civil War, once casually dismissed as "forty years of failure." can now be properly assessed as a series of experiences shaping a complex personality." (Publisher)
V. 1. 1837-1861 -- V. 2. April-September 1861 -- V. 3. October 1, 1861-January 7, 1862 -- V. 4. January 8-March 31, 1862 -- V. 5. April 1-August 31, 1862 -- V. 6. September 1-December 8, 1862 -- V. 7. December 9, 1862-March 31, 1863 -- V 8. April 1-July 6, 1863 -- V. 9. July 7-December 31, 1863 -- V. 10. January 1-May 31, 1864.; V. 11. June 1-August 15, 1864 -- V. 12. August 16-November 15, 1864 -- V. 13. November 16, 1864-February 20, 1865 -- V. 14. February 21-April 30, 1865 -- V. 15. May 1-December 31, 1865 -- V. 16. 1866 -- V. 17. January 1-September 30, 1867 -- V. 18. October 1, 1867-June 30, 1868 -- V. 19. July 1, 1868-October 31, 1869 -- V. 20. November 1, 1869-October 31, 1870 -- V. 21. November 1, 1870-May 31, 1871 -- V. 22. June 1, 1871-January 31, 1872 -- V. 23. February 1-December 31, 1872 -- V. 24. 1873 -- V. 25. 1874 -- v. 26. 1875 -- V. 27. January 1-October 31, 1876 -- V. 28. November 1, 1876 - September 30, 1878 -- V. 29. October 1, 1878-September 30, 1880 -- V. 30. October 1, 1880-December 31, 1882 -- V. 31. January 1, 1883-July 23, 1885 -- V 32 Supplementary documents.
Vols. 1-6 price-clipped, vols. 8, 19-21, 23-26 with white top edges. Else in near fine to fine condition. Very good+ to fine condition. Item #55185
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