Fishing and Shooting Sketches.

First edition of this work by the 22nd President of the United States. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece photograph portrait of Grover Cleveland with tissue-guard, illustrated by Henry S. Watson. With a note on the front free endpaper, Given to Charles S. Bird by Grover Cleveland." Charles Sumner Bird was politician from Massachusetts. A progressive Republican, Bird served as the Progressive Party's gubernatorial candidate in the 1912 and 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial elections. In 1884 he entered politics and support New York Governor Grover Cleveland for president and again in 1888 and 1892. After William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination in 1896 he left the Democratic Party and joined the pro-gold standard National Democratic Party. During the 1912 presidential election he supported former President Theodore Roosevelt in his attempt to win the Republican nomination and after he left to form the Progressive Party he joined. In 1912 and 1913 he served as the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Later in life Bird supported the Eighteenth Amendment and attacked unionization as "the greatest crisis that ... this nation has faced for half a century." In fine condition. An exceptional example with noted provenance.