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    By Rev. P. C. Headley
    New York   The Derby and Miller Publishing Co
    10" by 7" 6-720pp
    The illustrated first edition of Rev. P. C. Headley's biography of the 18th president of the United States and leader of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant.
    By Rev. P. C. Headley

    1866 The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant, from his Boyhood to the Surrender of Lee

    New York   The Derby and Miller Publishing Co
    10" by 7" 6-720pp
    The illustrated first edition of Rev. P. C. Headley's biography of the 18th president of the United States and leader of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant.
    £49.00
    : 2kgs / : 973F31
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    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition.

    Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twenty further plates. Collated, complete.

    A biographical narrative of Ulysses S. Grant’s life and military career, tracing his early years, education at West Point, service in the Mexican–American War, and rise through the Union ranks during the American Civil War, culminating in the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox.

    Inscription to front free endpaper.

    Author Rev. P. C. Headley was an American clergyman and prolific 19th-century author of popular biographies and historical works, often focused on military and moral leaders.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with minor loss of cloth to back strip head. Damp staining and tide mark to board tails, penetrating to pastedowns. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright. Instances of light tide marks to tail of plates throughout.

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