A Defense of Fishermen.

CLEVELAND, Grover.

Item Number: 125137

Princeton, New Jersey: Privately Printed, 1902.

First edition of the rarest of the American Presidential works on angling. Octavo, original green gilt-stamped cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Cleveland fishing. One of only 60 copies privately printed. Presentation copy, with an autograph note signed by Cleveland tipped in on his personal letterhead which reads, “And the ladies sometimes fish. Grover Cleveland Feb 25, 1908.” In very good condition. Rare and desirable.

Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912) to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.