An ingenious marketer, Twain created a marketing campaign for Grant’s autobiography in which Civil War veterans, dressed in their old military uniforms, went door-to-door offering the two-volume set for sale. President Grant’s memoirs were published by Mark Twain in 1885 not long after Grant’s death widely published. This edition is presented in its original illustrated dark green cloth gilt. Grant’s autobiography became one of the best selling books of the 19th century and was published in two volumes, including an engraved portrait frontispiece, a folding facsimile letter in volume one a folding map and facsimile document in volume two along with numerous maps and wood engravings throughout. First edition copy of The Personal Memoirs of U.S.
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