William Howard Taft, Signed (29 results)

Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 139 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth: fraying to spine caps and corners, mild shelf wear. Text block has tanning to endpapers, cracked front hinge, fore edge tear to page 63. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1395119. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Card approximately 2.5 x 4.5", tape marks along left margin over some of the inscription (not the signature), brown spot at top, Taft signature browned, matted with approximately 11 x 8" black and white photo of Taft, glazed and framed in gold-colored wooden frame. Short note: "For August Kupka with my best wishes." AND SIGNED "Wm H. Taft". Note sold AS IS. Nice display piece.

First edition, association copy of Booker T. Washington's significant history of Americans of African descent, inscribed by him to William Howard Taft as his advisor in the first year of Taft's presidency. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece portrait of Booker T. Washington by George G. Rockwood. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of in the year of publication and first year of Taft's presidency in volume 1, "To President William H. Taft with the highest appreciation of Booker T. Washington Tuskegee, Alabama. Dec. 9, 1909." As president of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Washington played a pivotal role in shaping the educational framework for African Americans, focusing on industrial and agricultural skills. Washington's influence extended beyond education into the political sphere, where he became a trusted advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. His advisory role was instrumental in advocating for policies that promoted Black economic progress, though his philosophy of gradualism and accommodation toward racial inequality drew criticism from figures like W. E. B. Du Bois. Washingtonâs invitation to the White House by Roosevelt in 1901 marked a significant moment in his political career, symbolizing his prominence but also drawing scrutiny from those who believed his conciliatory approach undermined the push for immediate civil rights. Washingtonâs relationship with Taft, who succeeded Roosevelt in 1909, was built on mutual respect and shared political interests, particularly regarding the economic development of Black communities in the South. Washington advised Taft on matters related to race relations and the needs of Black Americans, using his influence to encourage policies that would foster economic opportunities for African Americans. Their relationship was characterized by a pragmatic approach to race, with Washington advocating for the economic advancement of African Americans through education and labor rather than political or social confrontation. In very good condition with some rubbing and slight fraying to the cloth extremities. A fine association, linking two prominent figures in early 20th century American history. In The Story of the Negro, Booker T. Washington traces the history of African Americans from slavery through the early twentieth century, underscoring education and self-reliance as essential foundations for progress. In the preface, he writes, "If the reading of these chapters shall in any degree inspire any Negro to make himself useful and successful in the world.I shall feel that I have accomplished what I started out to do in the writing of these pages." This ethosâ"rooted in vocational training, discipline, and economic self-sufficiencyâ"had long shaped Washingtonâs public philosophy. His earlier autobiography, Up from Slavery, presents a personal narrative of his ascent from bondage to national prominence, culminating in the founding of Tuskegee Institute, an institution dedicated to industrial education and practical skill-building. Washingtonâs educational model, though widely influential, was not without its critics. Most notably, W.E.B. Du Bois challenged what he perceived as Washingtonâs emphasis on manual labor and economic accommodation at the expense of political rights and higher education. For Du Bois, Washingtonâs approach risked reinforcing existing racial hierarchies by training Black Americans to accept second-class status. Washington framed his approach as a form of pragmatism, aimed at securing concrete progress within the constraints of an era marked by racial violence, legal segregation, and widespread disenfranchisement. The Story of the Negro and Up from Slavery together articulate his vision of racial advancement through labor, moral discipline, and the development of autonomous Black institutions. These texts also became central to ongoing debates over the strategies and responsibilities of Black leadership in the early twentieth century, particularly the tension between vocational training and the pursuit of political and intellectual equality.

First edition of this collection of speeches and articles by President William Howard Taft from May 1915 to the adoption of the revised Paris Covenant on April 28, 1919. Octavo, original publisher's tan cloth, red leather spine label. Signed by Taft on the front free endpaper. In very good condition with light toning to the spine, light bumping to the corners. Rare and desirable signed. William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States (1909â"1913) and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921â"1930), the only person to have held both offices.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt; xii, 612 pages. Nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For William Lucas/Sincerely yours/WmH Taft.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in a Fine clamshell box. First Edition. Bound in later half black morocco leather with matching corners and dark brown cloth, gilt rules, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; [ii], 68 pages. Housed in a custom-made half brown morocco leather clamshell box with matching corners and marbled paper sides, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt. SIGNED on the title page: "With compliments of/Wm H Taft." With Taft's personal bookplate on the front pastedown. A leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party, Taft was a pioneer in international arbitration and a staunch advocate of world peace.

Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; xii, 182 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For J. D. Green Esq./with best wishes/Wm H Taft/March 22 1927." In this book, published one year after leaving the Presidency, Taft describes the League to Enforce Peace which he founded after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. A leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party, Taft was a pioneer in international arbitration and a staunch advocate of world peace. Rather faint stains and soiling to covers. Near Fine.

Letter. Condition: Near fine. Personalized letter from William Howard Taft, President of the United States, thanking political supporter, vice presidential contender and Philadelphia merchant Mr. John Wanamaker. (illustrator). Handwritten Letter. Single page letter, on embossed White House letterhead, bifolium. Includes the original mailing envelope. Previously folded along center line, finger soiling to envelope. Partially typed, with a personalized note from President Taft. Note reads: "I have read what you say in the morning paper, I cannot conceive of any statement from any other source that will so rouse the business community as your favorable and illuminating statements." An exceptional association copy, written days before Wanamaker was considered for the vice presidential slot on the Republican ticket. With the untimely death of Vice President James S. Sherman, late into the 1912 presidential campaign, Republicans scrambled to fill the now vacant vice presidential slot on the ticket. A top contender was John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, who was a staunch supporter of President Taft. Wanamaker was a delegate at the contentious Chicago Republican National Convention and a frequent surrogate for the Republican party. The position was ultimately not filled, and President Taft came in third in the election, losing to Woodrow Wilson and former President Theodore Roosevelt.

Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; x, 188, [2] pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For my friend James Scott/with many pleasant associations/golf and otherwise/Wm. H. Taft/Sept. 9th, 1919/Pointe-au-Pic." The recipient of the inscription might be James Scott Kemper, a personal friend and confidante of Taft as well as Herbert Hoover and who served as Ambassador to Brazil under Dwight Eisenhower. In any case, a scarce book, rarely found signed. Owner blindstamp on the last page which has the publisher's imprint. Near Fine, lacking a dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Childe Hassam (illustrator). First Edition. Cloth-backed embossed boards; printed on quality paper and bound by the Plimpton Press in what obviously must have been a limited edition. Illustrated with a color frontispiece after the painting ALLIES DAY by Childe Hassam. Includes two poems by Noyes, "The Avenue of the Allies" and "Victory," printed, according to Taft's foreword, to raise funds for the Royal Literary Fund and "for the relief of artists and their families who have suffered privations due to the war." SIGNED on the front endpaper by Noyes, Hassam, Taft, and sculptor Paul Manship, whose medallion of "Victory" is embossed on the front cover. An uncommon title, scarce to find signed by all four contributors. Pages unopened; soiling to covers. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Light rubbing. Near Fine. First Edition. Full navy blue morocco leather ruled and lettered in gilt on the front cover, decorative endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographic reproductions. Contains the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC articles "Washington: Its Beginning, Its Growth, and Its Future" by William H. Taft from the March 1915 issue, and "The Nation's Capital" by James Bryce. Also includes a four-page article by director Gilbert H. Grosvenor about the articles and the National Geographic Society. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page: "For J. B. McGhee/with best wishes/Wm. H. Taft/Jan'y 30, 1921/New Haven.".

Hardcover. First Edition. Original decorated red cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine and new endpapers; illustrated with photographs. This copy is SIGNED by Taft on the original front endpaper: "Sincerely yours/Wm H Taft/New Haven/Nov. 14th 1914." Some foxing at the beginning; binding is tight with the rebacking, the original spine cloth worn and dull. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper.

Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; vi, 299 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For William Lucas/of Philadelphia/WmH Taft." Light stains to rear cover, spine a touch sunned. Near Fine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's light brown cloth; xx, 340 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Taft on the front endpaper: "For Aage B. Nilson/with best wishes/WmH Taft." The recipient--a military man, diplomat, and avid collector of signed books--was in the habit of placing postage stamps next to the autograph and getting the page postmarked, as he has done here, in Washington, DC in 1928. Fine and bright, inside and out.

Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth; ix, [1] 283 pages. Per the copyright page, the edition consisted of 2000 copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the front endpaper: "For J. D. Green/of Trenton New Jersey/with best wishes/WmH Taft/March 16th, 1924." Small rubbed spot on spine which has light wear to the head. Fine.

unbound. 1 page, 10.5 x 8 inches, Pointe-a-Pic, Canada, July 27, 1921. In this letter, Taft thanks his correspondent for her congratulations on his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, in part: ".I remember your hospitable reception of me when I was your guest in Baltimore, and I hope I may have the pleasure of seeing you and Mr. Stein in the near future. We are going to be nearer neighbors now." Horizontal and vertical folds; very good condition.

unbound. 1 page, 10.25 x 8 inches, Washington, D.C. January 11, 1922. In this warm note signed "Wm. H. Taft," the former President agrees to see the son of a former colleague when he comes to Washington, in part: ".I remember your father very well as one of the members of that brilliant Bar of Louisville as I knew it, when I was on the Circuit Court of Appeals." Usual folds and one diagonal crease; small darkened area in the lower left corner. Very good(-) condition.

unbound. 2 pages on personal stationery, 10.5 x 8 inches, Pointe-a-Pic, Canada, July 10, 1917. Signed "Wm. H. Taft" as professor of law at Yale, regarding a fundraising campaign for the university and mentioning the recent funeral of William H. Moody, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In part: ".Of course this legacy of $1,000,000 by Oliver Payne is great, but it may take away some of the enthusiasm for giving which I hope to arouse through the loss that Yale has to sustain from the war.Men can not control the time when they will die, and Moody's life was such a tragedy that I felt he was entitled to the poor tribute of my attendance, when the family requested it." Usual folds plus a faint diagonal crease; small tears in the top margin; small stain on page 2. Very good(-) condition.

On Supreme Court of the United States stationery. Single page, signed in ink "Wm. H. Taft." With the rubberstamp of the "Office of the Clerk, Supreme Court U.S." Old horizontal folds. Very Good. The Pierson company was the sole printer of United States Supreme Court decisions from 1891 to 1946. Taft writes to "My dear Stansbury," "I enclose herewith my approval of the account of the Pierson Printing Office, and am very glad to do it. Certainly no Court is better served in the matter of printing opinions than we are.".

20 x 16, parchment, with large eagle vignette at top; army crossed flags and bayonets on battlefield vignette on bottom, circular blindstamp at bottom, appointing Lindsay C. Harkness as 1st Lt in US Corps of Engineers, (lightly) SIGNED AT BOTTOM BY WILLIAM TAFT AS PRESIDENT, countersigned by Stimson as Secretary of War, folds, some minor wrinkles and soil else a nice piece.

On Supreme Court of the United States stationery. Undated. [4] pages, folded, written in ink manuscript in Taft's hand on pages [1] and [4]. Signed, "Wm. H. Taft." Very Good. Taft, the only person to have served as President and Chief Justice, writes to "Dear Mr. Bright | This will introduce to you Mr. Grabill the Reporter of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. They are expecting to adopt our system in the preparation, printing and circulation of opinions in the Court. "I hope you will give him all the details of your part of our program. I have told him that the first thing they must do and the most difficult thing they have to do is to find the printer. Forty years' test is hard to improvise. In that we have the great advantage. But help him all you can- and oblige "Sincerely yours, Wm H. Taft".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. on personal letterhead, New Haven, March 14, 1915; to Professor J. Wm. Black at Colby College (declining an invitation to speak by the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter): "I have already agreed to deliver the Commencement Addresses at Bryon Maer Wellesley and Swartmore. In addition the Commencement at Yale comes on June 23rd. I do not feel that I should undertake anything additional." to. 1 page, with integral leaf. Fine, fresh copy. Signed by Author(s).

Olga Roosevelt's autograph book, lengthily inscribed and signed by Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States, William Howard Taft as Vice President of the United States and several other famous figures of the era, including naturalists John Muir and John Burroughs and financier Bernard Baruch. Octavo, bound in full vellum with hand painted decorations to the spine and panels, patterned endpapers. Inscribed and signed by Theodore Roosevelt with a lengthy quotation, "No one quality by itself makes a good man or woman; many are essential; but three especially - courage, straightforward honesty, and common sense. Theodore Roosevelt July 23rd 1903." Inscribed by William Howard Taft "For Miss Olga Roosevelt with best wishes of William H. Taft May 23 1910." Inscribed by American naturalist John Burroughs, "The most precious things of life are without money & without price John Burroughs Sept 8, 1903." Inscribed by the President of Cornell University and United States Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman, "Beauty, graceful manners, good temper, common sense, and a kind heart: these are the qualities that make a woman to be beloved and powerful. J.G. Schurman East Hampton September 14th 1903." Additionally inscribed by Alfred W.S. Garden, American diplomat Robert Underwood Johnson, American screenwriter Daniel Carson Goodman, and American naval officer Leigh Carlyle Palmer. Signed by John Muir and signed and dated by Bernard Baruch "B. Baruch Jan 20th 1920." From the collection of Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Olga Roosevelt. Roosevelt was the heiress to a fortune of several million dollars left her by her mother. She made her debut in Washington in 1908 and married Dr. Breckenridge Bayne in 1911. In very good condition. An exceptional collection of signatures with noted provenance. Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century.

No Binding. Condition: Good. In this typed letter signed (June 20th, 1916) ex-President Taft, who lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1912, weighs in on the chances for Republicans in 1916. He writes in full: "My dear David Baird: I have your letter and congratulate you on the work you did in Chicago. It was great. I am very glad to hear your expression of confidence in a large Republican majority next Fall. I don't know that I shall go into the campaign, or that I shall be wanted in the campaign. Sometimes advocacy by a man whose friends are certain to support a ticket hurts rather than helps with others; but if I do go into the campaign I hope fortune may bring me to Camden, where I shall have the pleasure of seeing you." Written on a 9" x 7" sheet of stationery imprinted: "William H. Taft New Haven, Conn.".  Condition: A light dampstain covers two-thirds of the letter, otherwise good condition. Signed by Author(s).

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930). Taft was President of the United States, as well as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court later in his career.TLS. 1pg. June 24, 1912. The White House, Washington. A typed letter signed Wm. H. Taft as President on The White House letterhead. Taft thanks Charles Sumner Hawkins for his words of support following the 1912 Republican National Convention, in which Taft controversially won the partys nomination over Theodore Roosevelt; TR then formed his Progressive Party and ran against Taft. Taft lost the 1912 Presidential Election to Woodrow Wilson: My dear Mr. Hawkins: I thank you for the kindly words of your letter of June 22d. The vindication that I have received is very gratifying. Sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft. The letter has a central mailing fold and light soiling and is in very good condition.

Taft assures Washburn that he will forward information about the relations of the US and the Philippines and is glad to hear that Washburn's grandsons are going to Yale and Harvard. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 March 8, 1930) served as the 27th President of the United States (19091913) and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (19211930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft chief justice, a position in which he served until a few weeks before his death. Charles Grenfill Washburn (January 28, 1857 May 25, 1928) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. ("Wm. H. Taft") in black fountain pen ink on engraved Supreme Court Washington letterhead, Pointe-au-Pic, Canada, September 15, 1925. On bifold leaf, 5 3/4" x7 3/4" 1 1/2 pages. Fine. To Colonel Edward Bowditch: "Thank you for your kind note. . .and for those lines of Hilaire Belloc. . .". Signed by Author(s).

Rare original White House card inscribed by President William Howard Taft, "For RobertÂH. Schutz of Hartford, with best wishes, Wm. H.ÂTaft, Feb 21st, 1913." Double matted and framed with a medallion of Taft by Barber. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 9 inches. Rare and desirable. William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States (1909â"1913) and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921â"1930), the only person to have held both offices.

framed. 9.75 x 7.5-inches (including the wide borders), no place, no date, circa 1915. This bust-portrait photo of the President is inscribed in the bottom margin: "For C.P. Cotton with best wishes, Wm. H. Taft." Blind-stamped logo in the upper left corner; blind-stamped "Baker Art Gallery -- Columbus, O." above the inscription. Double-matted in gray and white and set in a black-and-gold frame measuring 16 x 13.5 inches. Faint crease in the upper right corner, but still in very good(+) condition.