New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Hardcover. Grant's memoirs in the publisher's green cloth with gilt medallions. Written in the final year of his life and published posthumously by Mark Twain's publishing company. From the Preface: "Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined.....
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's review copy of Captain Miles P. DuVal's second work on the Panama Canal. As the unclipped jacket promises, "Intense drama, historical soundness, appreciative firsthand observation, and study characterize the Panama Canal histories of Captain DuVal begun while the author was.....
New York: Denniston & Cheetham, 1802. Hardcover. An attack upon the conduct and character of Aaron Burr by the journalist James Cheetham, building upon his earlier pamphlet "A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John Adams", beginning with noting that Burr's friends.....