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Recollections of Full Years

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    Recollections of Full Years by Helen Herron Taft, inscribed by former President William Howard Taft to a Yale Classmate.

    Octavo, x, [6], 395pp. Full blue morocco, gilt-ruled border on covers, title in gilt on spine with decorative raised bands and compartments. Marbled endpapers, gilt-ruled turn-ins and board edges. Bound by James Macdonald Company of New York, with stamp on rear turn-in. Complete with frontispiece portrait of Nellie Taft and 50 illustrations in black and white. All edges gilt, solid text block. A scarce example of one the earliest memoirs published by a first lady of the United States.

    Inscribed on the front flyleaf: “For C. Sidney Shepard of Yale ’78 with the warmest regards of a classmate and his “Governor.” / Wm. H. Taft. / April 9th 1919 / Washington D.C.” Also signed by Helen H. Taft.

    This copy of Recollections of Full Years is inscribed to Charles Sidney Shepard (1856-1934), a wealthy financier and philanthropist, who was a Yale classmate of President William Howard Taft. Mr. Shepard inherited his fortune from his father, an industrialist and railroad owner. After his father’s death, he became a director of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company, the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company and the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad Company. He remained close to President Taft throughout his life, supporting his presidential campaign in 1912 and corresponding often. Shepard died in 1934 at the age of 77.

    Additional information

    Location Published

    New York

    Publisher

    Dodd, Mead & Company

    Edition

    Early Edition

    Date Published

    1917

    Binding

    Leather bound

    Condition

    Near Fine

    Author

    Taft | Helen Herron [William Howard Taft]

    Parenthetical

    [William Howard Taft]

    Author Display

    Helen Herron Taft