[Rarebooks] FS: Calvin Coolidge Inscribed to his Campaign Manager & Republican Party Chairman

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COOLIDGE,  Calvin. ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT COOLIDGE TO  THE  NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN  COMMITTEE AT THE WHITE HOUSE DECEMBER 6, 1927. Washington:
U.S.  Gov. Printing Office 1929. First Edition. Small octavo (5-1/2" x
7-1/2")  bound  in flexible blue morocco lettered in  gilt  (including
Coolidge's  name at the bottom right) and decorated in gilt with stars
in  the corners and the Presidential coat-of-arms in the center.  With
a  printed  title page but the 19 text pages mimeographed rather  than
printed  on  paper with three holes in the gutter margin.  Obviously a
very  limited  production likely printed for Coolidge's personal  use,
and  quite  possibly unique. OCLC does not record any printed copy  of
this  speech  though it lists about 70 others. Given the same  day  as
the  1927 State of the Union address, this speech was given to a  much
smaller,  more selective audience. In the audience was William Butler,
a  Massachusetts  Senator who was Coolidge's campaign manager and  the
Republican  Party  Chairman.  This is his copy and  is  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  to him by the President two days before Coolidge left  office:
"To    Honorable  William  M.  Butler,/In   appreciation  of  a   long
and/faithful  friendship/  Calvin Coolidge,/The  White  House,/March 1
1929."  In  the  third sentence of his  speech  Coolidge  acknowledges
Butler:  "Both  the primary and the election were under the  immediate
direction  of  the  present  Chairman,  William  M.  Butler."  In  his
AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Coolidge  remarks:  "The  campaign  was  magnificently
managed  by  William  M. Butler." Two minor text corrections  in  ink,
likely  by Coolidge. Remarkable association, fairly equivalent to Karl
Rove's  copy  of a speech of gratitude inscribed to him by  George  W.
Bush.  Fine  and  exceptionally scarce item with  superb  association.
                                                               $5000.00

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