1st-2nd items: PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT, First Edition, Vol. I- II, by Ulysses S. Grant, published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1885-86. Hardcover octavos, 1,231 total marble-edged pages, including engraved frontispieces with tissue paper guards, additional illustrations, maps, a tipped-in facsimile of Civil War era letters dated 1862, and a tipped-in facsimile of an Appomattox Courthouse surrender document, hardbound in three-quarter brown Moroccan leather with brown publisher's cloth sides, covers with gilt stamping, gilt lettering to spine, five raised hubs, floral wallpaper end papers and pastedowns. Approximately 9 3/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 2" D. 3rd item: THE LIFE OF GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT, First Edition, by John S. C. Abbott, published by B. B. Russell, Boston, 1868. Hardcover 12mo, 309 pages, steel engraved frontispiece of Grant with tissue paper guard and additional illustrations, hardbound in brown leather with blindstamped covers, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns. 7 3/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 1 1/4" D. 4th item: GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGNS: A MILITARY BIOGRAPHY, First Edition, by Henry Coppee, A. M., published by Charles B. Richardson, New York, 1866. Hardcover octavo, 521 pages including index, engraved frontispiece of Grant, and 7 additional portraits with tissue paper guard and illustrations, hardbound in brown publisher's cloth with blind stamped covers, gilt lettering to spine. Ex libris plate to front pastedown. 9 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 3/4" D.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Covers with wear, particularly to hinges, rubbing/losses to leather, scuffs. Pages with toning, areas of dampstaining and foxing spots, primarily to first and last few pages. Vol I pages are separated from spine. Surrender document with tears, largest 3/4", to edges and fold lines. 3rd item: Covers with wear, rubbing, particularly to edges, spine with sunning, areas of loss largest 3/4" x 1 1/8" to leather, corners bumped. Pages with toning, foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, particularly to first and last few pages. 4th item: Covers with wear, sunning, some fraying minor holes to cloth, especially to spine, corners bumped. Gilt lettering to spine is very faint. Pages with toning, dampstaining, foxing spots, pencil inscriptions from previous owners. All portrait plates are present.