Descrizione

A rare original publisher's 'Salesman's Dummy' for the Memorial Edition of this early biography of Grant published almost immediately after his death. Specimen pages include two engraved portraits, one with facsimile autograph, 62 pages of engraved illustrations, maps, or facsimile records, sixteen pages of facsimile manuscripts, and 60 pages of text, many of which are also illustrated. Bound in the rear are several ruled pages for recording orders, including the subscribers' names, addresses, and preferred binding, ten orders are already recorded. 8vo, in the original olive cloth decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover and in blind on the lower cover, attached to the front endpaper is the sample spine for cloth binding option and attached to the rear endpaper the sample spines for the deluxe morocco and calf binding options, floral endpapers. A very fresh copy, especially so. The binding is bright and clean, the text is free of foxing, stains or other evidence of use.

Edizione: a scarce sales dummy and a beautifully preserved item of publishing history as relates to the 18th american president and hero of the civil war.<br> these 'dummies' were used by door-to-door publisher's salesmen to pre-sell the upcoming publication through subscription. thus they are full with illustrations and passages of the book chosen to be the most appealing to potential buyers.