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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 144 pp. Original brown paper covered boards w/ gilt title on white vellum spine. Top edge gilt. #191 of 620 copies. Inscription to previous owner on half-title page. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition copy 380 of 620 which 600 are for sale. Slipcage in goo condition with wear at one edge of opening. Book has ownership of W.J.K. Sr and one of his sons with address "Elmwood", Kohler Wis. Verso of the front free end page has photograph (newsprint ) of Monsignor Ramon Mestres, the priest who married the Hoovers, glued. Initials of WJK dated 5-29-33 in ink on recto of limitation page. These initials are those of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., 26th governor of Wisconsin. Small rub to spine of book, xii,[1],[ ],144 pages.
Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Number 215 of 620 copies. Frontispiece. xii, [ii], 144 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed by James D. Bligh. Quarter japan vellum and cloth. Fine Frontispiece. xii, [ii], 144 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, xii, [2], 144pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings mentioned. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Light wear to spine, solid binding. Includes frontispiece portrait of President Hoover. (Tracey, 21) (Burns, 0078) Handwritten description of provenance above signature, dated June, 1933. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "The Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." This work was also issued in a limited edition binding by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1933. The limited edition run was individually numbered, with a total of 620 in circulation. They were not signed by President Hoover. After his presidency, Herbert Hoover continued to be a prolific author. Some of his notable works include the following: "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression, 1929-1941" (1952), "The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson" (1958), "An American Epic: The History of the Making of the Hoover Dam" (1963), "Fishing for Funâ"and to Wash Your Soul" (1963) and "The Crusade Years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath" (2013, posthumously published) - This book, discovered among Hoover's papers, offers insights into his thoughts on the New Deal and the policies of the Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: Includes eight speeches before the Gridiron Club, the first time the speeches of a U.S. President to the club were printed, as well as four other addresses by Hoover: "A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes"; a speech celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Edison's Invention of the Incandescent Electric Lamp; a speech before the Iowa Society; and a speech commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of The Boy Scouts of America. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author: "To one Katherine Eckerts(?)/a steadfast person/from Herbert Hoover." Laid in is a ten-page pamphlet by Hoover titled "Our National Policies in This Crisis," dated 20 December 1950, printing a speech he gave in New York on that date. Neat bookplate on front pastedown and owner blindstamp at bottom of front blank. Near Fine in an uncommon and Very Good dustwrapper with the spine darkened
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$802.04 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the 31st President on the front free endpaper "To my good friend Timothy Hopkins from Herbert Hoover". The recipient, the businessman Timothy Hopkins (1859-1936), was a member of the board of trustees at Hoover's alma mater Stanford University, and close friends with the president. Hoover was one of the pall bearers at his funeral. Stephen Koschal, in his guide to collecting presidential signatures, cites this book as "very difficult to find signed" (Koschal, p. 42). Stephen Koschal, Collecting Books and Pamphlets Signed by the Presidents of the United States, 1982. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Neat ownership signature dated 18 October 1942 to initial blank. A couple of patches of rubbing, contents fresh; a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom