[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed by President James Buchanan to a Confederate General & Grand Dragon of the KKK

[Charles Agvent]

BUCHANAN, James] FREMONT, Brevet Capt. J. C. REPORT OF THE EXPLORING 
EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND 
NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-'44. Superb Association Copy 
Inscribed by James Buchanan to Confederate General John B. Gordon. 
Washington: Blair and Rives, 1845. First Edition. Octavo (5-3/4" x 
9-1/4") bound in publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering 
on the spine, 583 pages. Illustrated with 21 (of 22) plates and 4 (of 5) 
maps--lacking the large folding map, as often the case, tucked into the 
pocket of the rear cover and with two maps defective. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED on the front endpaper by the fifteenth President of the United 
States: "For John B. Gordon Esquire/with the kind regards of/James 
Buchanan." Light to moderate foxing with some mild staining to the 
plates. Spine tips worn but covers decent. But for the noted 
illustration defects, a nice copy with a dark, bold inscription.

A very interesting copy in that Buchanan was elected in 1856 as a 
compromise between the two sides of the slavery question in a three-way 
battle with Millard Fillmore and the author of this book, John C. 
Fremont, the first Republican candidate for president. With the country 
on the verge of civil war, he was succeeded in office by Abraham Lincoln 
shortly before the firing on Fort Sumter. John Brown Gordon, one of 
Robert E. Lee's best generals, fought in the Battles of Gettysburg and 
of Antietam, where he refused to leave the front until he suffered his 
fifth wound of the battle. Gordon was a firm opponent of Reconstruction 
and the titular head, or Grand Dragon, of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia. 
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1873, and in 1879 became the first 
ex-Confederate to preside over the Senate. (#016464)        $6,000.00

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