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Journeys
by Muskie, Edmund S
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Signed first edition of Journeys by former Secretary of State, Edmund S. Muskie.. Octavo, [x], 204pp. Black cloth, title stamped in silver on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Includes laid-in note from the Office of Senator Edmund S. Muskie. In publisher's dust jacket, $5.95 retail price on front flap, shelf wear and light rubbing along top edge. Scuff mark on signature page, below inscription by Muskie. Signed on the front free endpaper: "My best wishes. Ed Muskie." Edmund Muskie (1914-1996) served as the 58th Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. Earlier in his career he represented the state of Maine, as Governor from 1955-1959 and United States Senator from 1959-1980. He ran for Vice President of the United States in 1968 alongside Hubert Humphrey. Muskie died in 1996.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10555
- Title
- Journeys
- Author
- Muskie, Edmund S
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of Journeys by former Secretary of State, Edmund S. Muskie.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Tower Commission Report, signed book Ed Muskie, signed book Edmund muskie, first edition Edmund muskie, An Hour Before Daylight, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, Living Faith, The Hornet's Nest, Everything to Gain Making the Most of Life, White House D
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- Copyright page
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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