Description
Signed first edition, first printing of Grant by Ron Chernow.
Thick octavo, xxiii, [7pp maps], 1074pp. Blue hardcover, blue cloth spine with title in gilt, author’s initials in gilt on front panel. Full number line starting with “1” on copyright page. In publisher’s first edition dust jacket, fine condition, with $40.00 price on front flap.
Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. An exceptional example.
Author Ron Chernow won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his landmark biography of George Washington. This work on U.S. Grant, detailing his life from childhood in Ohio, his “lost years” before the Civil War, and finishing with his life as an international figure, has become a national bestseller.
