[Rarebooks] FS: Rutherford B. Hayes INSCRIBED to Edward W. Bok: THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES

[Charles Agvent]

HAYES, Rutherford B. THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE 
UNITED STATES. ADDRESS OF BREVET MAJ.-GENERAL RUTHERFORD B. HAYES AT THE 
FIFTH QUADRENNIAL CONGRESS. Chicago Illinois. April 17th 1885. 
[Chicago?]: [Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States], 
1885. First Edition. Printed light blue-green wraps; 7 pages. INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED at the top of the front cover "To Edward W. Bok/With all 
regard/R. B. Hayes" by the President. The Loyal Legion was formed on 15 
April 1865, the day of Abraham Lincoln's death. In his three-page 
address, Hayes says of the Civil War that it accomplished all: "It 
established the Union; it maintained the supremacy of the General 
Government; it abolished slavery.... The brave men of the South who 
fought against us are now ready with us to stand guard around the couch 
and the home of the illustrious soldier by whom they were beaten." 
Edward W. Bok was the influential editor of the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL for 
three decades. He won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book 
THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DUTCH BOY 
FIFTY YEARS LATER. Minor creases and bumps. Near Fine. (#020429)        
$2,500

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