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GPO. Used - Good. 1897. Hardcover. Cloth, 4to, 506 pp. Front hinge cracked; edges of boards worn, with some fraying at spine. Large piece torn from rear flyleaf. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Sound working copy.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good. First edition of The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second President of the United States, inscribed by President Grover Cleveland to his brother-in-law, William E. Hoyt.. Quarto, vii, [1], 578pp, [9]. Stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Wear to tips of spine, fraying of cloth. Solid text block, internally clean. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by former President Grover Cleveland after leaving office for the first time. Inscription reads: "William E. Hoyt from Grover Cleveland / May 23, 1890." A scarce signed book from the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. This copy is inscribed to William E. Hoyt (1829-1900), who married President Cleveland's sister, Mary, in 1850. They resided in New York and moved to Nebraska in later life to be close to their two children. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) began his unlikely rise to the presidency as the Mayor of Buffalo. Within two years… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Small bookseller's ticket from Books Inc at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on the rear pastedown. Minor rubbing to the spine tips and corners. Just about Fine. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in the original brown cloth. This copy is SIGNED by the President on the first blank months before his election to his historic nonconsecutive second term to "John P. Irish/from/Grover Cleveland/May 1, 1892." John Powell Irish (1843-1923) was a leader of the Democratic Party in Iowa and an opponent of prejudice against Japanese, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, women's suffrage, and labor unions.