The collected library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, all bearing his P. Tecumseh bookplate (except where noted).

Includes 10 Civil War related works: Ulysses S. Grant. Memoirs. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. 2 volumes. Original green cloth. -- Charles W. Wills. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier. Washington, D.C.: Globe Printing Company, 1906. -- Captain L.S. Sorley. History of the Fourteenth United States Infantry. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1909. Inscribed by the author to PTS. Wrapper detached and chipped. -- Charles King. The True Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914. -- Louis A. Coolidge. Ulysses S. Grant. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. --Stephen B. Stanton. The Fourth in the Furnace. New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. Inscribed "Uncle Cump's first partner". -- J.R. Perkins. Trails, Rails and War: The Life of General G.M. Dodge. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. -- Richard S. West, Jr. The Second Admiral: A Life of David Dixon Porter, 1813-1891. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1937. -- John M. Oskison. Tecumseh and His Times: The Story of a Great Indian. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. -- Fairfax Downey. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

Also of note is 5 volume limited edition set presented to P. Tecumseh Sherman: John Marshall. The Life of George Washington. New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1925. 5 volumes. Sponsors' Edition "specially prepared for P. Tecumseh Sherman"

Also including, 27 additional works from various genres: A.A. Graham, compiler. History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1883. -- Henry Howe. Historical Collections of Ohio. Columbus: Henry Howe & Son, 1889. Vol. II only. -- Henry Howe. Historical Collections of Ohio. Columbus: Henry Howe & Son, 1891. Vol. II only. -- C.R.B. Barrett. Essex: Highways, Byways, and Waterways. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1892. Limited Edition, No. 16 of 120, on Whatman Paper. -- C.R.B. Barrett. Essex: Highways, Byways, and Waterways. Second Series. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. Limited Edition, No. 75 of 120 on "fine paper." -- Edmondo de Amicis. Stanley Rhoads Yarnall, translator. Spain and the Spaniards. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. 2 volumes. -- Frank Samuel Child. An Old New England Town Sketches of Life, Scenery, Character. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Limited Edition de Luxe, No. 146 of 300. 1/2 red calf with marbled boards. -- Nelson A. Miles. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles. Chicago and New York: The Werner Company, 1896. 4to. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. -- William A. Dutt. Highways and Byways in East Anglia. London: MacMillan and Co., 1901. -- James Ford Rhodes. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. New York: The MacMIllan Company, 1904. Vol. V ONLY. -- Staphen Berrien Stanton. The Essential Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. -- Stephen Berrien Stanton. Soul and Circumstance. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. -- Emilius O. Randall and Daniel J. Ryan. History of Ohio: The Rise and Progress of an American State. New York: The Century History Company, 1912. 5 volumes. -- Thomas Dixon. The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln. New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1913. "Authors Autograph Copy" signed by Dixon to PTS on tipped in slip. -- [Caroline Sterling Choate]. The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate. New York: Privately Printed, 1917. Inscription: "Uncle Cump studied Law in the office of Evert's Choate + Beaman 1889 E.S.F." -- Stephen Barrien Stanton. The Hidden Happiness. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Inscribed, "Uncle Cumps first partner Sherman + Stanton" -- Thomas Hoggson. Noble Foster Hoggson, compiler. The Squire's Home Made Wines. Redding Ridge, Connecticut: Fairfield Manor, 1919. Inscribed to PTS by Ella and Noble Hoggson, 25 Dec. 1919. -- Pierre-Andre Gargaz. A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace. New York: George Simpson Eddy, 1922. -- Stanley Vestal. Kit Carson: The Happy Warrior of the Old West. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. -- George Simpson Eddy, editor. Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. -- Thomas H. Sherman. Twenty Years with James G Blaine. Reminiscences by His Private Secretary. New York: The Grafton Press, 1928. -- Stephen Berrien Stanton. Collected Poems. New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930. -- Spenser Wilkinson. The Rise of General Bonaparte. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930. -- J. Carroll Mansfield. Kit Carson. Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1933. -- Stark Young. So Red the Rose. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. INSCRIBED to ffep: "To Cump from George" and "P.T. Sherman from George S. Eddy Aug, 1934". -- Marcus. M. WIlkerson. Thomas Ducett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1935. With extensive corrections throughout by Leroy S. Boyd, with TLS, Washington: 9 December 1935 to PTS by Leroy S. Boyd explaining. Inscribed by Anne Boyd Grayson . -- Mary Anderson de Navarro. A Few More Memories. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1936]. Extensively inscribed with letter.

Also with 5 additional works not bearing a bookplate, but likely a part of Philemon's library: Colton's Road Map of Litchfield and Fairfield Counties of Western Connecticut. -- Album von Berlin. (postcards) -- Paul Bussard. The Sacrifice. Saint Paul, MN: The Leaflet Missal, 1939. -- National Gallery Illustrations to the Catalogue. Volume III British, French, and Spanish Schools. -- Copies of Authentic Letters and Papers Throwing Some Light on the History of Doctor Absalom Baird. Pittsburgh, PA: Reed & Whitting, 1909.

Philemon was well-educated, he received a Ph.D. from Yale University and a law degree from Columbia Law School. He was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor.

Condition: varies, a complete condition report is available upon request.

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The Sherman-Fitch Library

Primarily assembled by General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), the collection of books was inherited and curated by his son, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman (1867-1941). Before his death, Philemon transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch (1876-1959). Eleanor was the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria "Minnie" Ewing Sherman Fitch (1851-1913). Until now, the Sherman-Fitch library was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

The library includes a range of diverse material owned by General Sherman that principally relates to the Civil War, American history, and the Sherman family. Many works in the Sherman-Fitch library are historically significant, including General Sherman's annotated copy of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, the Sherman family bible, and Barnard's "Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign."

Most examples in the collection are affixed with bookplates that bear both General Sherman's and Philemon's names. In some cases, where General Sherman's ownership was clear, his bookplate was not always affixed. However, books with just Philemon's bookplate were generally acquired after his father's death in 1891. General Sherman’s bookplates were likely added by Philemon after his father’s death. Philemon’s bookplates were placed by Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (1908-1969) after he inherited the library in 1942.

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