Description
First edition of Journal as Ambassador To Great Britain by Charles G. Dawes, signed and dated by the author.
Octavo, ix, 442pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and cover. Stated “First Printing” on copyright page. Light rubbing to cloth, soiling along front cover. Dust along top edge of text block, offsetting to endpapers. Solid text block. In the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, $5.00 on front flap, numerous archival repairs to verso, split hinges, heavily reinforced along all seams.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Senator Jesse H. Metcalf. Inscription reads: “For my friends Senator + Mrs. Jesse Metcalf / from Charles G. Dawes / March 5th, 1940.”
Senator Jesse Metcalf (1860-1942) served in the United States Senate from 1924-1937, representing the State of Rhode Island.
