AN INSCRIBED COPY OF WOODROW WILSON’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK:  THE STATE — ELEMENTS OF HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL POLITICS. 

WILSON, (THOMAS) WOODROW.  (1856-1924).  Twenty-eighth President of the United States (1913-21); professor and president at Princeton University. His difficult to find first book: THE STATE — ELEMENTS OF HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL POLITICS.  “The revised, first edition.  1898.  Boston, D.C Heath & Co, Publishers”.  Gilt imprinted, red cloth.  686 pages, octavo.  Front inner hinge starting [see image].  Wilson has inscribed this copy: “The Club of Thirty-Nine / with the compliments of / Woodrow Wilson /  Princeton,  N.J. / 31 October 1900”.  Library of “The Club of Thirty-Nine” bookplate affixed on opposite page, and has caused an off-setting stain under Wilson’s inscription.   Our research indicates the Club of 39 was a social/ dining club active in Princeton for a number of years. An interesting note: this book had Wilson’s first wife as its dedicatee, and the addition of it being inscribed on Halloween, just enhances its appeal.  His inscribed books are of some scarcity.      

 

$4800.00