The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1920-1933 The Cabinet and The Presidency.
by Hoover, Herbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951. First edition, second printing of Hoover's Presidential memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "The good wishes of Herbert Hoover to John P. Costello." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson. "It is doubtful if any other American public figure of comparable position has written any autobiographical fragment with anything like its unstudied and natural literary quality....His book is genuinely historic" (Newsweek).
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133701
- Title
- The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1920-1933 The Cabinet and The Presidency.
- Author
- Hoover, Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- first edition, Herbert Hoover, Presidential, Rare, signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography;
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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