INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT TAFT. March 4, 1909
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 corners and marbled paper sides, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt. SIGNED on the title page: "With compliments of/Wm H Taft." With Taft's personal bookplate on the front pastedown. A leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party, Taft was a pioneer in international arbitration and a staunch advocate of world peace. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Item #020756
Price: $7,500.00