$336
Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1821. 8vo, full calf, in custom cloth-backed clamshell case with pastedown spine label. First edition. Samuel Tilden's personal copy with manuscript ex-libris signature of Tilden to f.f.e.p. Prior to Al Gore, Samuel Tilden was the first and only other presidential candidate to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. Sold by Kimball Bros. to P. C. Duchnes in 1924, accompanied by ALS detailing receipt of purchase; bookplates of Hermon Dunlap Smith and Wm. A. Colman tipped in front pastedown. Wear to boards; splitting at outer hinges of spine; intermittent foxing; otherwise fine in fine clamshell case.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2009-07-28
