51 67GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs. WITH: MCCLELLAN, George B. McClellan’s Own Story. WITH: CRAWFORD, Samuel Wylie. The Genesis of the Civil War. The Story of Sumter. WITH: CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. WITH: HANCOCK, A.R.. Reminiscences. WITH: SHERIDAN, P.H. Personal Memoirs. WITH: SHERMAN, W.T. Memoirs. New York, 1885-1892. Ten volumes altogether. Octavo, original green cloth. $15,000 Rare Complete “Shoulder Strap” Set Of Civil War Memoirs Complete Shoulder Strap set of seven Civil War histories printed by Twain’s publishing house in its short-lived but impressive decade of operation, each volume with the trademark gilt-decorated “shoulder strap” on the spine. This exceptional ten-volume “Shoulder Strap” series is named for each work’s gilt-decorated spine band that evokes the stars on an officer’s “shoulder strap.” Featuring the finest of contemporary Civil War histories, this series pays tribute to Mark Twain’s brief but impressive venture into publishing. In 1884 Twain joined with Charles Webster, who was married to Twain’s niece, in an effort, at first, to publish his own books, but they got the contract for the enormously successful Memoirs of U.S. Grant; other generals soon followed with their own accounts, until the whole venture exhausted its profits and filed for bankruptcy in 1894. Interiors clean and fine; only occasional light rubs to extremities, cloth fresh, gilt bright. Overall a beautiful set, very nearly fine, especially rare complete with the Hancock edition.
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