[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Calvin Coolidge HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS to a well-known Italian immigrant

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Sun Apr 9 12:19:00 EDT 2006


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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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