[Rarebooks] FS: Grover Cleveland INSCRIBED to His Secretary of State

[Charles Agvent]

CLEVELAND, Grover. THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND, TWENTY-SECOND 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889. 
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Quarto (8" 
x 11") bound in publisher's 3/4 brown morocco leather and marbled 
boards. This copy is SIGNED by the President on a front blank to his 
Secretary of State during his first term, months before his election to 
his historic nonconsecutive second term: "Hon. Thomas F. 
Bayard/from/Grover Cleveland/May 1, 1892." With Bayard's ink ownership 
SIGNATURE at the top of the title page. Rebacked with nearly all of the 
original spine laid down but for small chips at the heel and a large 
chip at the head. Near Fine.

Thomas Francis Bayard served three terms as United States Senator from 
Delaware and made three unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination 
for President of the United States. Cleveland appointed him to his 
Cabinet as Secretary of State in 1885, working with the President to 
promote American trade in the Pacific while avoiding the acquisition of 
colonies at a time when many Americans clamored for them. In 1893, 
during Cleveland's second term, he served as the Ambassador to the 
United Kingdom. (#019592)        $6,000

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