Desirable Civil War hero autobiography: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. First edition. NY: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1888. Hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt decoration, 6.25 x 9.25, 986 pages. A well-illustrated military memoir boasting several fold-out maps and frontispiece portrait featuring his facsimile signature. Book condition: VG/None, with edgewear, slightly loose hinges, and the bookplate of Joel Davis Madden, Jr., affixed inside each volume.
Joel Davis Madden, Jr., left Princeton University in 1905 and moved west to make his fortune in the railroad industry. He went on to become an executive with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and died suddenly in 1928 at the age of 41. His book collection, offered by his granddaughter, has not been publicly offered or privately sold in a century.
