Author: MERRILL, Horace Samuel
Title: Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party
Description: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Edited by Oscar Handlin. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering/rules. viii, 224pp. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn and spine gilt rather rubbed, else tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this volume in editor Handlin's "Library of American Biography" series -- and an interesting association copy, being that of Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), who folds down two page corners in which his grandfather, Cleveland's vice president Adlai E. Stevenson I, is mentioned. From library of yet another Adlai: Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). Intriguing copy. .
Keywords: Presidential
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Title: Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party
Description: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Edited by Oscar Handlin. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering/rules. viii, 224pp. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn and spine gilt rather rubbed, else tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this volume in editor Handlin's "Library of American Biography" series -- and an interesting association copy, being that of Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), who folds down two page corners in which his grandfather, Cleveland's vice president Adlai E. Stevenson I, is mentioned. From library of yet another Adlai: Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). Intriguing copy. .
Keywords: Presidential
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51086
- Book number: 51086
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