[Rarebooks] FS: Calvin Coolidge HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS Inscribed to prominent Philadelphia Italian Immigrant

[Charles Agvent]

COOLIDGE, Calvin:  HAVE FAITH IN MASSACHUSETTS
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston (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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