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Hoover, Herbert. The CHALLENGE to LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1934.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ink writing and name stamp on FEP. DJ tanned and torn in several places. Board edges worn lightly. Pages tanned.
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1934.
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Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
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Condition: Good
Description: Scribner's " A " present on copyright page. Ex- Library with many library stamps. Otherwise, book is O. K. A good reading copy.
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge of Liberty. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK, 1934.
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Condition: Fair
Description: gilt on cover and spine, shelf worn, corners bumped, princeton antiques book plate on inside of front cover DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 212
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The issue is human liberty. Red cloth board book with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Spine is tight. Pages are tight, no tears, writing or folding. Book corners are straight. Spine has slight shelf wear on edges, very slight fading. One small dirt spot on back cover.
Seller: Six Maples Books, Martinsburg, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ISBN . B089KM5QNZ Hardback. No dustjacket., bound in red covers. First Edition as signified by Scribner with the letter A on copyright page. Tight sound copy with average wear overall, but pretty much a tight sound reading copy only due to underlining to the interior text.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition with Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Wear & tearing to head of spine, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 212 pages plus possible end pages, appendixes, prefixes, tables, etc, that may have been uncounted to preserve book. Has a small rubber date stamp on or near title page of JAN 19 1935. This is an original book, not a reprint. This is a library bound or an original bound book with possible minor library stamps and stickers from the Morris Room of the New York County Lawyer's Association, the prestigious NYC institution for Manhattan attorneys. May contain a bookplate or an inscription from a previous owner. Priced to sell, as I lack the expertise to fully describe books of this vintage. May contain loose pages or weak spine. Additional shipping costs may be requested for this specific title for international and/or expedient shipping.
Seller: Village Works, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, London, 1934.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Discussion of the attack of individual liberty across the globe. Original owner's signature on FFEP, spine sun-faded, binding and text quite clean and tight.
Seller: ProPen, Arcata, CA, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$14.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. DJ shows minor wear, tear, chipping, and tanning. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$14.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in red buckram, sans DW; bumped and worn corners and spine ends; review copy with publisher's stamp on ffep.; 212pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's sons NY/London, 1934.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: -------------Red cloth with gilt letters on cover and spine, book is near 8" tall. 212 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid straight, clean- - - dust jacket has small piece of bottom edge missing, and the dust jacket is now protected by new clear removable cover.
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 12 mo. hardcover, almost fine in red boards with yellow lettering. Clean, unmarked, well preserved from the 30's. 212 pp. including summaries of chapters. Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, 1874-1964, contends the whole philosophy of individual liberty is under attack. First edition, first printing.
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. Challenge to Liberty, The. NY Charles Scribner's C1934., 1934.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: g+/-, binding warped/covers bow out/little stains, previous name. One pg little nick & corner creases, otherwise nice & clean inside. 1st ed. Binding is red cloth.
Seller: Ann Wendell, Bookseller, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Maroon cloth boards with gold lettering, light wear, spinecover beginning to tan. Pages are clean with faint tanning on margins, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: 212p. Ex-library, Very good condition
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 'A' & seal. Edge wear, chips missing to dust jacket, 1" sticker shock on front.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Description: 212 p.; 20 cm. VG dull orig. maroon cloth. Unmarked copy, pages lightly foxed
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, Chicago, IL, 1934.
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Description: Chicago, IL: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 212 pp., some staining on cover .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York London, 1934.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red gilt-lettered cloth, top sp. rubbed, sp. lettering dull. 212 pp.; clean and unmarked but fr. end-paper excised hence low rating. Scarce in UK. 14 cm x 19.5 cm
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very Good condition. No dust jacket.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 212p. Bookseller's label. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, lettered in gold. Small bookseller's label from the Book Shop, York, PA. Hardbound. Nice clean first edition. Some of the things that Hoover says have insight on our current governments and economics. AMER PRESIDENTS BOX 1 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Description: 212 pp. White endpapers. Red cloth with gilt titles. Head and tail of spine lightly worn. Grey DJ with red titles. Large chip from back cover, small chips, yellowed spine. Near Fine/VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hoover, Herbert. The challenge to liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 2 p. l., 212 p. 20 cm. Summary of Chapters at the back. From Wikipedia: "Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929 1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. He achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium and served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) elected without electoral experience or high military rank. America was at the height of an economic bubble at the time, facilitating a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith. Hoover, a globally experienced engineer, believed strongly in the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them. He also believed in the importance of volunteerism and of the role of individuals in society and the economy. Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary (President Kennedy was the other; he donated all his paychecks to charity). When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with government enforced efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25% to 63%, and increases in corporate taxes. These initiatives did not produce economic recovery during his term, but served as the groundwork for some policies incorporated in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. After 1933, he became a spokesman in opposition to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman brought him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient through the Hoover Commission. The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by his failure to end the downward economic spiral, although his support for strong enforcement of prohibition was also a significant factor." Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Corners slightly bumped and worn. First Edition, presumed first printing. "A" on verso.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: worn and chipped dustjackwet with spine panel missing, boards are warn with bumped tips;
Seller: OddReads, Harper, TX, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Good. , Hardcover, Original red cloth. 'A' printing. 212 pages. Text clean, light tanning. A little foxing first few pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped, lightly soiled, with some names and scribbles in ink on jacket flaps. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
Seller: Lincbook, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty (First Printing). Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 212 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Printing With "A" On Copyright Page. Light Usage, Slight Fading And Tiny Split To Spine. Ink Ownership Signature On Front Pastedown.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scibner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition (A). A clean, nice copy. Near Fine, no DJ.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert.. The Challenge to Liberty.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 212 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate; else a near fine copy in a very good jacket with a small chip to the bottom of the spine, affecting one letter of the imprint. The spine is also slightly browned and spotted.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scribner's " A " present on copyright page. Insect damage to boards.
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tight fresh copy, unmarked, in maroon cloth. Dj with slight edgewear. "A" present.
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: with Scribner's "A". Red cloth cover with gilt text on front, bright and clean, mild shelf wear to spine ends, some ripple by spine at front and back. Book is firm in binding, unread. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages First edition ("A" on copyright page); First Printing.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) Scarce publisher's review copy
Seller: Odd Volume Bookstore, JACKSON, TN, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert.. The challenge to liberty.. Charles Scribner's Sons,, New York & London:, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [2], 212 pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering (slight shelfwear, slight offsetting on endpapers), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head of spine, couple minor closed tears, toning), NF/VG, w/publisher's review stamp on ffep., and [16 pp.] promotional review pamphlet with talking points, stapled and laid-in as well. First edition, review copy, of Hoover's political diatribe against the rising power of the Federal government under President Roosevelt, and the dangers of the New Deal legislation.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$56.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition (A and Scribner colophon on copyright page, $1.75 jacket price). Jacket toned with 1/2 inch closed tear and shallow 1/4 inch chip along top edge, book club insert laid in. 1934 Hard Cover. 212 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles, Statue of Liberty on jacket. An examination of how the expansion of bureaucracy and government regulations can endanger the rights and freedoms of individuals. A keystone work in the literature of American conservative thought, written shortly after Hoover's tenure as president. "Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 ? October 20, 1964) was the thirty-first President of the United States (1929?1933). Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric 'economic modernization'. In the presidential election of 1928 Hoover easily won the Republican nomination. The nation was prosperous and optimistic, leading to a landslide for Hoover over the Democrat Al Smith. Hoover deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement (a major component of the Progressive Era), arguing that a technical solution existed for every social and economic problem. That position was challenged by the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the first year of his presidency. Hoover tried to combat the Depression with volunteer efforts and government action, none of which produced economic recovery during his term. The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward spiral into deep Depression, compounded by popular opposition to prohibition. Other electoral liabilities were Hoover's lack of charisma in relating to voters, and his poor skills in working with politicians.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scribner's " A " present on copyright page . An excellent copy of Hoover's best known work. Aimed at Roosevelt's emerging 'New Deal",Hoover states the Republican opposition point of view.
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scribner's " A " present on copyright page.
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scribner's "A" is present on the copyright page. Some fading to red cloth.
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Written shortly after his departure from the White House as the 31st President of the US, Hoover here took to address the problem of human liberty, which he saw as increasingly challenged since the Great War (WWI), focusing on the American System & Liberalism, as well as alternative philosophies of society & government proffered by Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Naziism, & National Regimentation. He identified what he saw as abuses of & attacks on liberty, being particularly critical of his successor Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program. 212pp. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1934, with the requisite Scribner's "A,'' this hardcover small 8vo has deep red cloth-covered boards lettered in bright gilt to front & spine. Condition is VG: very clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white with age-appropriate tanning to edges. Faint evidence of dampstaining to fore edge side & along the bottom of front board, more evident inside front cover & lessening slight red stain along bottom edges of pages in front matter. The unclipped DJ is Good+, with sticker residue to lower spine & chipping/tiny tears to corners & some edges; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge Yo Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition with publisher's "A" on copyright page. Red boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Some speckling on front/back cover from shelf wear. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. 212pp.
Seller: Denali Bay, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with the Scribner's "A" & seal on the copyright page. Review copy with publisher's stamp on the front endpaper. The book measures approximately 7.75" x 5.5" with 212 numbered pages. This book is in very good pluscondition. Minor bumping on head and tail ends of spine. Gilt lettering on spine and front board are full and vivid. Minor stains to top edge. Dust jacket is in good plus condition. Minimal chipping to head and tail ends of spine. Two moderate closed tears to front panel. Original $1.75 price present on front flap. "The Challenge to Liberty" was Hoover's first book after leaving office. Inventory # (N1-29).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the card of Herbert Hoover attached to the front free endpaper. 1 vols. 8vo. Hoover's Compliments card on flyleaf. Red cloth. About fine in slightly chipped dust jacket First edition, with the card of Herbert Hoover attached to the front free endpaper.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY.. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'A' and seal on copyright page, unclipped dustjacket worn and torn, spine faded, unmarked, 212pp, VG/G.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TITLE: THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY By HERBERT HOOVER 1934 First Edition HERBERT HOOVER Compliments Card Present AUTHOR: HERBERT HOOVER PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NY 1934 EDITION: First Edition with the Scribner 'A' present on the copyright page ISBN: NONE CATEGORY: Political, Government, Rare, First Edition BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket COLOR: Red SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 212 pages. CONDITION: The dust jacket is in good condition; the is a small size chip to the top edge of the spine; the original $1.75 price is still on the front flap; the top front corner tip has a minor really small size split. There is a card with 'THE COMPLIMENTS OF HERBERT HOOVER' glued to the front pastedown. There is a 'UNLV DUPL' written in ink on the top edge of the first front free endpaper. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good+/Good+ dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: THERE ARE OTHER COPIES WITH THE COMPLIMENT CARD SELLING IN THE $125+ RANGE ON THE INTERNET AT THE TIME OF THIS RESEARCH!! COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 009032
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition red cloth boards with gold front cover lettering and gold spine lettering. Includes Introduction and a rear section entitled Summary of Chapters. The upper spine edge is moderately rubbed and the first page of the Introduction contains a number at the page bottom and three letters at the upper left page edge; otherwise the volume is in fine condition with all pages in fine condition. The binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). This is a first edition as evidenced by the copyright page containing the appropriate "A" signifying first edition. ". the America people are faced with the primary issue of humanity and all government - the issue of human liberty. throughout the world, the whole philosophy of individual liberty is under attack. In haste to bring under control the sweeping social forces. during the last quarter-century. peoples and governments are blindly. destroying those fundamental human liberties. The great question before the American people is not whether these dislocations and abuses can be mastered and these new and powerful forces organized and directed to human welfare, but whether they can be organized by free men. We have to determine now whether. we must cripple or abandon the heritage of liberty for some new philosophy which must mark the passing of freedom. Who may define Liberty? It is far more than Independence of a nation. It is not a catalogue of political "rights." Liberty is a thing of the spirit. Liberty conceives that the mind and spirit of men can be free only if the individual is free. There are stern obligations upon those who would hold these liberties -- self-restraint, insistence upon truth, order, and justice, vigilance of opinion, and co-operation in the common welfare. In every generation men and women of many nations have died that the human spirit may be thus free.From these sacrifices and in the consummation of these liberties there grew a great philosophy of society -- Liberalism. The high tenet of this philosophy is that Liberty is an endowment from the Creator of every individual man and woman upon which no power, whether economic or political, can encroach, and that not even the government may deny. And herein it challenges all other philosophies of society and government; for all others both before and since, insist that the individual has no such unalienable rights, that he is but the servant of the state. Liberalism holds that man is master of the state, not the servant; that the sole purpose of government is to nurture and assure these liberties. All others insist that Liberty is not a God-given right; that the state is the master of the man. No man long holds his freedom under a government which claims men's liberties. That government cannot exist or continue unless it be of despotic powers. The whole of human experience has shown that. the American Constitutional system. wherein government was to be "of laws and not of men". when these boundaries of Liberty are overstepped, America will cease to be American. Liberty is a living force. Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon Liberty. Greed. invades it from the Right, and greed for power inbureaucracy and government infringes it from the Left. Its battles against . all forms of. tyranny have long demonstrated that it was no system of Laissez Faire. the world has given of the failure of idealism alone without the compass of experience. It is now claimed by . groups that Liberty has failed; that emergency encroachments upon its principles should be made permanent. I have commented upon the perversion.of the term "Liberalism" by theories of every ilk.Fascism, Socialism, Communism.these philosophies are the very negation of AMerican Liberalism.once again the USA faces the test of whether "a nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." -excerpts from the Introduction
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 212pp. Blue Cloth. Author inscription on the front free endpaper; "To Mrs. Marie O'Connor With the Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover". Mottling spots along the gutter, and extremities of the front panel. and foxing to the front free endpapers. The text block, though lightly toned, is clean and unmarked. "Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (19291933), was a mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928 Hoover easily won the Republican nomination. The nation was prosperous and optimistic, leading to a landslide for Hoover over the Democrat Al Smith, whom many voters distrusted on account of his Roman Catholicism. Hoover deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement (a major component of the Progressive Era), arguing that a technical solution existed for every social and economic problem. That position was challenged by the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the first year of his presidency. He tried to combat the Depression with volunteer efforts and government action, none of which produced economic recovery during his term. The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward spiral into deep Depression, compounded by popular opposition to prohibition. Other electoral liabilities were Hoover's lack of charisma in relating to voters, and his poor skills in working with politicians." Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Octavo. Hardcover lacking a dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Hoover on the first free end paper. Red boards with gilt lettering. Rubbing to the heel of the ever so slightly leaned spine. Ends of the spine lightly bumped. A rather handsome copy on the upper end of very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Signed nicely: "To Jack W. Kaufmann with the compliments of Herbert Hoover." Book show some very faint wear to tips of some corner, very light sunfade to spine. otherwise book is excellent, very clean and very bright, with a tight binding and clean pages.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hoover , Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chips to dust jacket. Pre-Publication review copy with photograph of Hoover Included. Name of previous owner and Scribner's review stamp on front endpaper. Scribner's " A " present on copyright page . Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 212pp. Inscribed by Hoover. Octavo hardbound, tight binding. Cover wear, faded. Interior clean throughout. Inscribed by Author.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert.. The Challenge to Liberty.. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Scarce variant state binding in dark blue vertically ribbed cloth stamped in gilt at spine and on front cover, fore-edge untrimmed, in publisher's unprinted glassine dustwrapper, in publisher's box (with lid), also Fine. 212pp. with "Summary of Chapters" at end. Unread, immaculate. Scarce, especially in this condition. Q14815
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge of Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing: with requisite Scribner seal and "A" present on the copyright page. 5.5 x 8in. 212pp. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling. A presentation copy: the engraved card "The Compliments of Herbert Hoover" tipped-in at the front endpaper. NEAR FINE. Shows the extremities marginally shelf rubbed, else Fine/As New. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 212 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. First edition, with Scribner's "A" and seal on copyright page. Minor shelf wear. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Age-toning to textblock. Light pencil annotations throughout, with pencil writing on front pastedown. Signed flat by Hoover on front free endpaper. Includes handwritten letter from Mrs. Hoover in envelope postmarked Dec. 1936. Shelved in Case 5. 1377650. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Hoover at tipped-in front endpaper. Hoover's Hoover's Republican opposition to the New Deal. Near Fine with ownership stamp and blindstamp (and some notes) to inscription page, in a Very Good illustrated dustjacket, rubbing to spine ends and flap corners, few tiny tears along top rear edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$263.94 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards. Scribner "A" on CP.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$303.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. A one-of-a-kind letter from Hoover, dated June 1941, is laid in from the former President to Lester Beach Scheide, a prominent Connecticut architect, planning a rendezvous in New York, SIGNED by Herbert Hoover. Scheide signed inside the front cover. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has moderate shelfwear, overall minor soiling from handling,spine ends rubbed and spine darkened, evidence of possible damp stain at bottom of spine - does not affect pages. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned, fore edge is rough cut. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 212 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on front flyleaf, "To Hon Charles Coates with the best regards of/ Herbert Hoover."
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket. $1.75 On Flap. (A) In Copyright with Scribner's Seal. First Edition Rare Presentation Copy."To Floyd S. Bryant With Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." Excellent Copy Of This Ex-Presesident.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Association copy. Inscribed by former president Herbert Hoover to Gardner Cowles, Sr.: "To Gardner Cowles Sr / With the kindest regards of / Herbert Hoover." Gardner Cowles, Sr., founder of Cowles Media Company and fellow Iowan, was President Hoover's Director of Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932-33. $1.75 price intact on DJ flap. Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Slight skewing. Text block tight.
Seller: River of Books, Clive, IA, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Challenge to Liberty SIGNED. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by President Herbert Hoover on the front endpaper. First edition, first printing with the Scribner's "A" on the front endpaper. The book measures approximately 7.75" x 5.5", with 212 numbered pages. Book is in very good plus condition. Bumping to the spine ends. Minor surface wear to the boards. Gilt lettering on spine and front board is still bright and well preserved. Envelope affixed to the rear pastedown. Pencil notations to the rear endpaper. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Moderate creasing and chipping to the spine ends. Original price present on front flap. "The Challenge to Liberty" was Hoover's first book published after leaving office. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (M6-40).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red cloth with bright gilt titles. First Edition, First printing. Scribner "A" present.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. Challenge to Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover. First edition with A. Compliments slip laid in.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First editionÂof Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty."ÂOctavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and consultant- from Herbert Hoover Samuel Blythe." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice association. The 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover wrote more than two dozen books throughout his lifetime, including The Challenge to Liberty, a harsh criticism of the New Deal. Hoover feared that the New Deal was a threat to the country's "freedom of mind and spirit." He criticized he National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration as "fascistic," and the 1933 Banking Act as a "move to gigantic socialism."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 212pp. Original blue publisher's cloth, gilt. Minor shelf wear. No dust jacket. Presentation inscription by the author on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Near fine. First edition. Hoover writes of the endangerment to the liberty of Americans, and compares the democratic system to the evil "isms." This copy is inscribed by Hoover to Boston financier Ernest B. Dane: "To Ernest B. Dane, With the kind regards of Herbert Hoover."
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge To Liberty. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 212pp. Blue cloth, gilt title on spine and cover. First printing with Scribner's A on copyright page. Light sunning to spine, rubbing to lower edge of spine, solid text block. In publisher's dust jacket, $1.75 on front flap, chipping along top edge, bright illustrations, Scribner's advertisement on back panel. (Tracey, 005) Signed by former President Herbert Hoover on front free endpaper: "To Senator George Wharton Pepper, With the Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961) was an American lawyer, professor and United States Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 1922-1927. During his time in the Senate he was considered a moderate Republican, best remembered for settling a Pennsylvania coal strike and advocating for environmental causes. After his primary defeat in 1926, he was considered by President Hoover to fill the seat of retiring associate justice of the Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., but in a surprising move, Hoover chose a liberal justice to fill the seat. In retirement, Pepper remained active in politics, openly opposing Roosevelt's New Deal policies and arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He died in 1961.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. The Challenge to Liberty.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, early printing of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty."ÂOctavo, original cloth. ÂBoldly signed on the front free endpaper by Herbert Hoover, along with thirteen others including Nebraska Governor Samuel Roy McKelvie, Judge Harry A. Spencer, Near fine in a good dust jacket. The 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover wrote more than two dozen books throughout his lifetime, including The Challenge to Liberty, a harsh criticism of the New Deal. Hoover feared that the New Deal was a threat to the country's "freedom of mind and spirit." He criticized he National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration as "fascistic," and the 1933 Banking Act as a "move to gigantic socialism."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.