Description
Limited edition of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, inscribed by President Calvin Coolidge to American author Thomas Wolfe.
Octavo, [10], 247pp. Blue cloth spine, gray boards, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, title on paper label affixed to spine. Complete with frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations. From a limited edition of 1000 copies signed by President Calvin Coolidge, this being number 987. (Martin / Goehlert 8030) Includes letter of provenance from bookseller Edward Morrill & Son of Boston. Additional inscription by President Coolidge on front free endpaper: “To Thomas Wolfe, with regards, Calvin Coolidge.”
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was an American author who published four books during his short lifetime. Considered one of the great American novelists, Wolfe influenced other noted American authors, such as Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth and Pat Conroy. Thomas Wolfe died in 1938 at the age of 37, leaving behind a large body of work that was published posthumously.
