Essays and Speeches. With Extracts from the Journal of Rufus Fearing Dawes and an Address Upon the Army of the Potomac By General (and future Vice President) Charles R. R. Dawes.

DAWES, Charles G.

Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1915

About this Item

First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the initial binder's blank, "For W. McC Blair from his friend Charles G. Dawes. April 21st 1916", in the presentation binding by the publisher, retaining the card slipcase. The recipient William McCormick Blair (1884-1982) was a prominent banker in Chicago; he founded the William Blair & Company investment bank, still extent, in 1935. This collection of essays and speeches focus on questions of banking and trust reform, which at this stage of Dawes's career was his principal interest, and for which he had garnered a national reputation. It also includes extracts from the journal and speeches of his forebears. Dawes later held the roles of Vice President (1925-29) and Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1929-31). He is most famed for the Dawes Plan, which restructured German war debt, resulting in his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Octavo (213 x 141 mm). Photogravure frontispiece and 2 similar plates with tissue-guards. Original presentation binding of black half morocco by The Riverside Press, spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In original card slipcase with printed label. A fine copy; slipcase worn and restored along joints.

Seller Inventory # 190541

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essays and Speeches. With Extracts from the Journal of Rufus Fearing Dawes and an Address Upon the Army of the Potomac By General (and future Vice President) Charles R. R. Dawes.
• Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1915
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)