Rare, early signed book: George Washington by Woodrow Wilson. NY: Harper and Brothers, 1896. Hardcover with green cloth boards and gilt titles, 5.25 x 7.75, 333 pages. Signed neatly on the first free end page in black ink as the governor of New Jersey, "Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, 19 Dec., 1912." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/None.
Accompanied by an ALS from Charles R. Erdman, Sr., a Presbyterian minister and professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, dated December 20, 1912, who forwarded this book to a friend, for whom he had this book signed by Wilson: “Mrs. Erdman and I are sending to you and Mrs. Gulland two volumes…One is by Woodrow Wilson and the other is by Henry van Dyke, and each contains the autograph of the author written specially for you at my personal request.”
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