Description
First edition of World Peace: A Written Debate by former President William Howard Taft, in the exceptionally scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, xvi, 156pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. The first edition, with the publisher’s device on title page. (Martin / Goehlert 7125) (Coletta, 177) Includes the publisher’s dust jacket, $1.25 retail price on spine, shelf wear, chipping at spine, solid hinges.
The only known copy of this dust jacket on the public market.
The two authors of this book were political adversaries during the election of 1908. William Jennings Bryan was a three-time Democratic nominee for president. The winner of the 1908 election, William Howard Taft, never had grand aspirations for the presidency, but was the heir apparent after the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. In this unique work, both politicians argue the merits of isolationism, international politics and the League of Nations.
