Description
Signed first edition of Selected Addresses of C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Calvin Coolidge.
Octavo, xiii, 300pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, soiling and toning to edges of cloth, sunning to spine. From the University of Cincinnati Robert S. Marx Law Library, with library label on covers and stamps to title page and endpapers. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to “Ben. L. Heidingsfeld – with compliments and regards. C. Bascom Slemp.”
Campbell Bascom Slemp (1870-1943) was the presidential secretary to Calvin Coolidge, and served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia from 1907-1923. The recipient, Ben L. Heidingsfeld (1868-1944) was an attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio, notably representing theaters and motion-picture companies in court.
