Author: LEWIS, JOSEPH J. (HIS LIFE BY); STARR, THOMAS I. (BOTH ANNOTATED BY)
Title: Lincoln's Kalamazoo Address Against Extending Slavery
Description: Detroit, MI, Fine Book Circle. 1941, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographs. Hardcover, Thomas I. Starr's ink signature and inscription on ffep, to the 11th U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, a Republican Progressive with a long distinguished career of public service to the United States. Book plate of Chief Justice Hughes' son-in-law, William Thomas Gossett on fep; William T. Gossett practiced law for more than half a century, and during that time was general counsel for Bendix Aviation Corporation (1945-47), general counsel and vice president of the Ford Motor Co. in 1947; named by President Kennedy as deputy special representative for trade negotiations in 1962; elected President of the American Bar Association in 1968; former president of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association; Chairman of the United Negro College Fund from 1961-1967; Mr. Gossett was a staunch advocate for criminal justice reform; in 1967, former Michigan Governor George W. Romney described Gossett as "a man who has been a leader of causes without regard to the popularity of those causes." This copy is from the William T. Gossett book collection, passed on to a Gossett descendant who lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Book designed by Paul McPharlin and printed at the Blue Ox Press, 1000 copies; Lightly aged end pages, else textblock is clean and tight. All page edges faded red. Blue cloth, minor shelf wear to the corners and spine. 63p. Very Good. Signed & Inscribed By Thomas I. Starr.

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Addresses, Abraham Lincoln's Kalamazoo Address, Abraham Lincoln Speeches, Justice Charles Evans Hughes, William T. Gossett American History/Americana Photographs


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