The President's Daughter
Britton, Nan Elizabeth Ann Guild, 1927 Hardcover. Fair/No dust jacket; moderate wear, bumping to black linen cloth boards w/gilt lettering & ruled marginal framing, deckled edging. Boards worn at corners and spine, some chipping of boards. Pages browning, spine tight. "The story of my life-long love for Warren Gamaliel Harding and his love for me and our love for our child is told in these pages, together with the family, community, and political circumstances under which this relationship continued for the six and one-half years preceding the sudden passing of the President on August 2, 1923. The author has had but one motive in writing for pulbication the story of her love-life with Mr. Harding. This motive is grounded in what seems to her to be the need for legal and social recognition and protection of all children in these United States born out of wedlock. To the author, this cause warrantes the unusual and conscious frankness with which she has written. " "The First Edition.was hindered and trodden upon by interests which did not want to see this mother"s true story given to the world. On June 10, 1927, six burly New York policemen and John S. Sumner, agent for the Society for the Suppression of Vice, armed with a "Warrant of Serach and Seizure, " entered the printing plant where the making of the book was in process. They seized and carried off the plates and printed sheets. On June 29th, in a magistrate"s court, the case was dismissed. The seized plates and printed sheets were returned to the publishers. " frontiespiece portrait. A couple dozen b/w photos, printed on one side of the paper, are scattered throughout the text. Media shipping $4.00
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