[Rarebooks] FS: Calvin Coolidge's Autobiography Inscribed to fellow graduate of Amherst College

[Charles Agvent]

COOLIDGE, Calvin. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE. New  York:
Cosmopolitan  Book  Corp. 1929. First Edition. First Trade Edition  in
green  cloth.  INSCRIBED  and SIGNED by the former  President  on  the
recto  of  the  frontispiece  portrait, as usual: "To  Dr.  Robert  B.
Osgood,  '95/With  Regards,/Calvin  Coolidge."  Robert  Bayley  Osgood
graduated  with  Coolidge and 72 others from Amherst College in  1895.
He  went  on to become president himself, of the American  Orthopaedic
Association.  Along  with Carl Schlatter, he first described  in  1903
Osgood-Schlatter  disease  in  adolescents.   He  founded  the  Osgood
Orthopedic  Clinic  in  Boston.  One  encounters  the  signed  limited
edition  of  1000  copies  much  more  frequently  than  signed  trade
editions  of this title. Inscribed copies of any association value are
found  even  less  frequently.  Minor wear.  Very  Good,  lacking  the
uncommon dustwrapper.                                         $1750.00

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