The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman | Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana

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(Treaty of Versailles) | Senator Hiram Johnson's copy of the Treaty

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April 14, 05:34 PM GMT

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500 - 600 USD

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(Treaty of Versailles)

Treaty of Peace with Germany. Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1919


4to (289 x 225 mm). Text printed in French and English, folding maps; marginal toning, some water damage. Full blue cloth, cover and spine gilt-lettered; rubbed with some fraying, some soiling, joints cracks. [With:] Data on German Peace Treaty. Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1919. Pamphlet stapled, 4to (291 x 234 mm). 43 pp.; toning, closed marginal tears and chips. Original cream wrappers; toning and chipping to edges with some loss. [With:] Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919]. Pamphlet stapled, 8vo (231 x 146 mm). 29 pp.; some toning and soiling. [And:] A typed letter from the U.S. Senate Printing Clerk, Ansel Wold, discussing the printing of the Treaty. 1 page (264 x 202 mm). On United States Senate letterhead; toning an spotting, closed tear.


Senator Hiram Johnson's copy. 


Johnson was an attorney and politician from California, who served as that state's 23rd Governor (1911 to 1917), and represented California in the U.S. Senate for five terms (1917 until his death in 1945). He was also Teddy Roosevelt's running mate on the "Bull Moose" presidential ticket in 1912.


PROVENANCE

Hiram Johnson (name gilt on cover)