[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Calvin Coolidge HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS to a well-known Italian immigrant
Charles Agvent
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Sun Apr 9 12:19:00 EDT 2006
From our new catalogue of SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL material now posted on our
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association copies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and
Theodore Roosevelt.
COOLIDGE, Calvin. HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company (1919). Second Edition. A later printing of the
enlarged Second Edition of the Speeches and Addresses of the elected
governor of Massachusetts and future President. Portrait
frontispiece. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to Commander C. C.
A. Baldi "With Regards/Calvin Coolidge" on the front free endpaper.
Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi, an Italian immigrant who settled in
Philadelphia, organized a bank and owned a daily Italian language
newspaper in Philadelphia where he was the first Italian named to the
School Board. Some edgewear to the cloth and to the dustwrapper which
has a snag and tear at the middle of the spine with some loss and is
stained. Very Good in uncommon, Near Good dustwrapper. $1150.00
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