CLEVELAND, Grover.

Fishing and Shooting Sketches.

"Nature speaks in cheering tones to those who hold communion with her visible forms": First Edition of Grover Cleveland's fishing and shooting sketches; From the library of Cleveland's close friend Charles S. Bird

New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1906.

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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.

Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. He was also the first and to date only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.