Back to Beginnings: Adlai E. Stevenson and North Carolina by Ives, Elizabeth S. And Sam Ragan - 1969

Charlotte, North Carolina:: Heritage Printers. Presentation copy Signed by the Author, Sam Ragan to Margaret McMahan noted author and historian of Fayetteville, North Carolina Dust jacket covered with mylar jacket protector. Illustrated. Some scattered foxing to pages. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 1969.

Charlotte, NC: Heritage Printers, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Wide 12mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 56pp, (4pp). Numerous illustrations, genealogical chart. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this account of the Tar Heel background of the Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate (1900-65) -- and a choice presentation copy, as the half-title page is handsomely inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink " For Adlai / from his / Aunt Buffie / Christmas 1969." Elizabeth "Buffie" Stevenson Ives (1898-1994) was the sole sibling of the governor, who named his eldest child after himself -- Ives's nephew was Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), who served as U.S. senator from Illinois (1970-81). A better association copy could hardly be imagined.