[Rarebooks] FS: Two SIGNED by Calvin Coolidge: Observing the Armistice and an Address Inscribed to the Republican Party Chairman

[Charles Agvent]

COOLIDGE, Calvin. SIGNED TYPED ADDRESS (GIVEN AT THE OBSERVANCE OF THE 
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMISTICE). [Washington], [1928]. First 
Edition. A nine-page pamphlet, stapled, with the pages consecutively 
numbered. The only printing information given are the numbers 
"19870--28" in small type at the bottom of the first page. A speech by 
Coolidge delivered under the auspices of the American Legion at the 
Washington Auditorium on 11 November 1928, while Coolidge was president. 
SIGNED by Coolidge at the end of the speech. In part: "Although our 
people became engaged in this great conflict [World War I], some in 
furnishing money, some in producing food and clothing, some in making 
munitions, some in administering our Government, the place of honor will 
always be accorded to the men and women who wore the uniform or our 
country--the living and the dead." Coolidge concludes, "The gravest 
responsibilities that can come to a people in this world have come to 
us. We must not fail to meet them in accordance with the requirements of 
conscience and righteousness." Coolidge's autograph is quite uncommon in 
this form. Near Fine. (#006747)        $850.00

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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 leather 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. Fine and 
exceptionally scarce item with a superb association. (#013152)        
$5,000.00

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