PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS, Six Volumes From THE WORKS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
New York: P. F. Collier & Son, n.d. [1909]. Reprint. Hardcover. Six volumes in publisher's blue cloth with gilt-ruled and lettered spines. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Roosevelt. These 6 volumes comprise the complete PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS from a 14-volume edition of Roosevelt's works. The first volume is SIGNED on the front free endpaper by the author on the last full day of his term as president: "To/Warren Rudolph Forster/with all good wishes/for his future, from/Theodore Roosevelt/March 3rd 1909." William Howard Taft assumed the presidency the very next day. Forster, a boy at the time, was the son of Rudolph Forster who was Executive Clerk and Administrative Officer in Charge of Executive Papers at the White House until his death in 1943, a secretary to presidents from William McKinley through Franklin D. Roosevelt. Each volume with Warren Rudolph Forster's bookplate on the front pastedown. Contents clean, bindings tight; some uneven loss of gilt on the spines. Very Good or better. Item #020042
Price: $4,500.00