Description
The first edition, first printing of Grant by Ron Chernow, signed on a Penguin Press bookplate.
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 the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $40.00 retail price on front flap, “Autographed Copy” sticker on the front panel. Signed by the author on a Penguin Press bookplate, affixed to the half-title. A fine copy.
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.
