Description
First edition of Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America, the first book by President Warren G. Harding.
Octavo, [14], 13-302pp. Green cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Light wear to cloth, some soiling from handling, wear to gilt on spine. Occasional light foxing, solid text block. (Martin / Goehlert, 7913) Includes the bookplate of American writer and journalist, Vincent Starrett, with his initials in pencil on the bookplate and front free endpaper. An exceptionally rare collection of speeches by the recently inaugurated President Warren G. Harding.
Our Common Country is a collection of 18 addresses by president-elect Warren Harding, outlining his policies for the new Republican administration. Warren Harding published no books before his presidency and due to his untimely death in office, did not write his memoirs.