[Rarebooks] FS: OLD CHINATOWN by Arnold Genthe INSCRIBED to the only person born in the White House, price reduced

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Price reduced to $1600 NET

GENTHE, Arnold. OLD CHINATOWN Inscribed to the only person born in the 
White House. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Second Edition. 
Enlarged from the First Edition of 1908 with 91 higher quality gravure 
plates of this important work of documentary and ethnographic 
photography. Black cloth decorated in gilt and red. Text by Will Irwin. 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to Esther 
Cleveland, one of Grover Cleveland's five children and the only child to 
date to be born in the White House: "For/Miss Esther Cleveland/--So that 
she may know/what the real Chinatown/looked like, when she/sees the new 
one-- /with best wishes from/Arnold Genthe/New York/February 1915." Miss 
Cleveland would have been 21 or 22 at the time of this inscription. She 
would in a few years depart for England where she did volunteer work 
during World War I and where she met and married her husband, settling 
there until 1971 when she returned to the United States and remained 
there until her death in 1980. Mild spotting of cloth on spine and rear 
cover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.

Esther's 49-year old father married her 21-year old mother in the White 
House in 1886, making Frances the youngest first lady in U. S. history. 
Esther was born in the White House during Cleveland's second term after 
the out-of-office politician was elected in an event unprecedented in U. 
S. political history. (#010433) $2,500.00

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