WILSON, Woodrow.
Mere Literature and Other Essays.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1896.
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"May this little volume speak clearly, to whomsoever may own it, of a genial love of good books and a deep love of country": First Edition of Woodrow Wilson's Mere Literature; Lengthily Signed by Him
First edition of this collection of essays by the future president of the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a lengthy inscription, "May this little volume speak clearly, to whomsoever may own it, of a genial love of good books and a deep love of country. Woodrow Wilson Princeton, 12 Dec., 1898." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional inscription.
The work includes a longer essay on Edmund Burke and profiles of "Great Americans" such as Alexander Hamilton, Sam Houston, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.
Mere Literature and Other Essays.
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