The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses.

COOLIDGE, Calvin.

Item Number: 115639

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

First edition of this collection of speeches from the 30th President of the United States. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. Signed by the author, “Compliments Calvin Coolidge.” In fine condition. An exceptional example.

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States (1923–29). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative.