New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "with best wishes of/Wm. H. Taft/Washington/Sept 28th 1922." An uncommon book to find signed by Taft, here as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in later half black morocco leather with matching corners and dark brown cloth, gilt rules, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; [ii], 68 pages. Housed in a custom-made half brown morocco leather clamshell box with matching.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; vi, 299 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For William Lucas/of Philadelphia/WmH Taft."
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt; xii, 612 pages. Nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For William Lucas/Sincerely yours/WmH Taft."
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; xii, 182 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For J. D. Green Esq./with best wishes/Wm H Taft/March 22 1927." In this book, published one year after leaving the Presidency, Taft.....
(Washington DC): (National Geographic Society), (1915). First Edition. Hardcover. Full navy blue morocco leather ruled and lettered in gilt on the front cover, decorative endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographic reproductions. Contains the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC articles "Washington: Its Beginning, Its Growth, and Its Future" by William H. Taft from.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's light brown cloth; xx, 340 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Taft on the front endpaper: “For Aage B. Nilson/with best wishes/WmH Taft." The recipient--a military man, diplomat, and avid collector of signed books--was in the habit of placing postage stamps.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; x, 188, [2] pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For my friend James Scott/with many pleasant associations/golf and otherwise/Wm. H. Taft/Sept. 9th, 1919/Pointe-au-Pic." The recipient of the inscription might.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorated red cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine and new endpapers; illustrated with photographs. This copy is SIGNED by Taft on the original front endpaper: "Sincerely yours/Wm H Taft/New Haven/Nov. 14th 1914."
New York: The Book Committee of the Art War Relief, (1918). Childe Hassam. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed embossed boards; printed on quality paper and bound by the Plimpton Press in what obviously must have been a limited edition. Illustrated with a color frontispiece after the painting ALLIES DAY by Childe.....
