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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine and bright, inside and out. 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 next to the autograph and getting the page postmarked, as he has done here, in Washington, DC in 1928.
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TAFT PAPERS ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
by TAFT, William Howard. MARBURG, Theodore and FLACK Horace E. (editors)
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THE COVENANTER: AN AMERICAN EXPOSITION OF THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
by TAFT, William Howard; WICKERSHAM, George; LOWELL, A. Lawrence; TAFT, Henry W
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner blindstamp on the last page which has the publisher's imprint. Near Fine, lacking a dustwrapper. 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 be James Scott Kemper, a personal friend and confidante of Taft as well as Herbert Hoover and who served as Ambassador to Brazil under Dwight Eisenhower. In any case, a scarce book, rarely found signed.
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THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES AND VICTORY
by [TAFT, William Howard] [HASSAM, Childe] NOYES, Alfred
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New York: The Book Committee of the Art War Relief, (1918). First Edition. Hardcover. Pages unopened; soiling to covers. Very Good. Childe Hassam. 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 Hassam. Includes two poems by Noyes, "The Avenue of the Allies" and "Victory," printed, according to Taft's foreword, to raise funds for the Royal Literary Fund and "for the relief of artists and their families who have suffered privations due to the war." SIGNED on the front endpaper by Noyes, Hassam, Taft, and sculptor Paul Manship, whose medallion of "Victory" is embossed on the front cover. An uncommon title, scarce to find signed by all four contributors.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS
by [TAFT, William Howard] TAFT, Mrs. William Howard
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing at the beginning; binding is tight with the rebacking, the original spine cloth worn and dull. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. 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."
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT From March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1910
by TAFT, William Howard
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 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."
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INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT TAFT. March 4, 1909
by TAFT, William Howard
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. 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.
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POPULAR GOVERNMENT. ITS ESSENCE, ITS PERMANENCE AND ITS PERILS
by TAFT, William Howard
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New Haven/London: Yale University Press/Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Small rubbed spot on spine which has light wear to the head. Fine. Publisher's dark blue cloth; ix, [1] 283 pages. Per the copyright page, the edition consisted of 2000 copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the front endpaper: For J. D. Green/of Trenton New Jersey/with best wishes/WmH Taft/March 16th, 1924."
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WASHINGTON. THE NATION'S CAPITAL
by TAFT, William Howard & BRYCE, James
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(Washington DC): (National Geographic Society), (1915). First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing. Near Fine. 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 the March 1915 issue, and "The Nation's Capital" by James Bryce. Also includes a four-page article by director Gilbert H. Grosvenor about the articles and the National Geographic Society. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page: "For J. B. McGhee/with best wishes/Wm. H. Taft/Jan'y 30, 1921/New Haven."
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POLITICAL ISSUES AND OUTLOOKS. SPEECHES DELIVERED BETWEEN AUGUST, 1908, AND FEBRUARY, 1909
by TAFT, William Howard
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Light stains to rear cover, spine a touch sunned. Near Fine. 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."
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THE UNITED STATES AND PEACE
by TAFT, William Howard
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Rather faint stains and soiling to covers. Near Fine. 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 describes the League to Enforce Peace which he founded after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. 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.
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MASTERPIECES BY MOTONOBU: WITH CRITICAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE ARTIST
by TAJIMA, Shiichi [editor]
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Tokyo: Shimbi Shoin, 1904. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in worn but complete cases. Two large folio (11" x 16-3/4") volumes bound in lovely pictorial silk over boards tied with purple string and housed in folding slipcases with ivory clasps. Of a total of 2000 copies, the first volume is #90 and the second #44, both SIGNED by the editor. Illustrated with 100 full-page black-and-white collotype plates with descriptive text in English. Motonobu (1476 - 1559) was a Japanese painter and calligrapher, a member of the Kano school of painting.
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB
by TAN, Amy
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. The upper corner of the front endpaper, a total area of about two square inches, is very slightly discolored as a result of some liquid agent used to eliminate a price marked in felt pen. The price is faintly noticeable as well. Dustwrapper has a shallow crease across the top front panel. An affordable copy if you can live with these relatively minor defects. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's acclaimed first book in the first issue dustwrapper.
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MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
by TARKINGTON, Booth
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in glassine, chemise and slipcase, all Fine. T. M. Cleland. Octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in a full fine Schumacher damask, in two-tone beige, woven with an all-over clover-leaf pattern, to which is affixed a brown leather label bearing the title in gold; 122 pages. Illustrated with water-color reporductions by T. M. Cleland who also planned the typography. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. A charming book in an unusual and lovely binding.
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MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in chemise and slipcase, all Fine. T. M. Cleland. Octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in a full fine Schumacher damask, in two-tone beige, woven with an all-over clover-leaf pattern, to which is affixed a brown leather label bearing the title in gold; 122 pages. Illustrated with water-color reporductions by T. M. Cleland who also planned the typography. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. A charming book in an unusual and lovely binding. Monthly Letter laid in.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
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Indianapolis, 8 April 1881. Letter. Ink smudged in several places, some soiling. Very Good with dark ink. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) in full on 10-1/4" x 6-1/4" personal stationery folded into four panels to book reviewer William McCormick regarding his review of Tarkington's novel THE TURMOIL and reviewing in general. In part: "I feel peculiarly grateful to you; my feeling about reviews is that a reviewer reviews himself as well as the book he is estimating. Most reviews seem to me to reveal more of the reviewer than of the book. How many, many for instance, shout of egotism; the reviewer being in labor from the outset to demonstrate that he is the knowing fellow, the author a faltering apprentice, or worse! Your review made me grateful because it was kind enough to see at what pains I had been to write 'decent prose.' Such matters are usually overlooked because--I cannot help but believe it--because the great majority of reviewers have no perspective of prose texture. They do not…
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
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Photograph. Light wrinkling to right side. Still Near Fine. A 6" x 8-3/4" vintage formal portrait by Pirie Mac Donald, "Photographer of Men." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author: "To Miss Christy/with best wishes from/Booth Tarkington/1931." Miss Christy is likely the silent film star Ann Christy who, like Tarkington, hailed from Indiana. Nearly fifty films were made from Tarkington's novels and plays between 1914 and 1951. Signed photos by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS and ALICE ADAMS are distinctly uncommon.
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CLAIRE AMBLER
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New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Stationery store stamp on the half-title page. Fine, bright copy in the uncommon and attractive, Near Fine dustwrapper with just a few tiny closed tears.
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MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. hardcover. Fine in chemise and slipcase, all Fine. T. M. Cleland. Octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in a full fine Schumacher damask, in two-tone beige, woven with an all-over clover-leaf pattern, to which is affixed a brown leather label bearing the title in gold; 122 pages. Illustrated with water-color reproductions by T. M. Cleland who also planned the typography. One of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. A charming book in an unusual and lovely binding. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE WRITER'S FORUM
by TATE, James; MATTHEWS, William; MALANGA, Gerard; SCHAEFFER, Susan Fromberg
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(Brockport, NY), (1975). First Edition. Wraps. Fine copy of this scarce ephemeral piece. Printed stapled wraps. A 7-1/2" x 10" pamphlet published in connection with the April 1975 appearance of the four poets at State University College in Brockport. A poem and photograph for each poet is printed, that of Malanga's being by Diane Arbus. Each poet has SIGNED at his or her contribution.
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THE LOST PILOT
by TATE, James
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Minor crease to cover. Near Fine. The more common softcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to a fellow poet: "To Richard Hugo,/a man and poet for all/reasons -- your generosity/is a rare and beautiful/quality -- you shall inherit/the earth--/Best,/Jim Tate/6-15-67."
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