[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce SIGNED Theodore Roosevelt INAUGURAL ADDRESS

[Charles Agvent]

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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT 
ROOSEVELT, MARCH 4 1905. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 
1905. First Edition. Large slim quarto (7-7/8" x 11-1/2") bound in gray 
cloth with gilt rules and lettering; [2], 12 pages. One of a few 
large-paper copies prepared for the President's personal use, this copy 
is SIGNED on the front endpaper: "with regards of/Theodore 
Roosevelt/March 30th 1905." Exceptionally scarce we could locate only 
the following copy, sold at auction by Doyle in 2014. This from their 
description: "The Inaugural Address for Theodore Roosevelt's second 
presidential term in its large-paper form; when R. W. G. Vail, the 
one-time Librarian of the Roosevelt House (and later of the American 
Antiquarian Society) catalogued the copy in the Roosevelt collection at 
Harvard, he described it as a rarity. That copy was not signed. We can 
locate no copies at auction, inscribed or otherwise, and have located 
one signed copy institutionally, at the William Clements Library at 
University of Michigan. As Roosevelt became president upon the 
assassination of William McKinley, there was just a swearing-in, but no 
inauguration before his first term, so this was Roosevelt's first 
inauguration." Walter R. Benjamin Autographs in 1997 described the Doyle 
copy as "Arguably one of the most extraordinary inaugural items ever on 
the market place." Some foxing to the endpapers with no effect on the 
signature; some fading to the fore-edge of the front cover and light 
soiling to the rear. Near Fine and an exceptional item. (#017815)     
$15,000.00

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