The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana
The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana
Cleveland, Grover | The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland, signed by the President between his nonconsecutive terms
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Cleveland, Grover
The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland. Twenty-Second President of the United States. March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1989. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889
Folio (292 x 196 mm). Initial blank removed. Publisher's maroon-brown cloth, boards decorated in blind, spine gilt; rubbed, rear joint starting, corners bumped and a bit frayed.
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed — between his first and second term — in ink on the flyleaf "James C. Carter from Grover Cleveland, May 1, 1892."
James C. Carter was a New York City lawyer who was appointed in the year of the inscription to present the claims of the United States before the Bering Sea tribunal. The Bering Sea Arbitration was the culmination of a fishery dispute between the United Kingdom and the United States that took place throughout the 1880s, and centered upon contested jurisdiction over the sealing industry.