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Herbert Hoover. America's First Crusade. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HERBERT HOOVER (TO PROFESSOR ALISON REPPY) on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1942 1st edition, with both the letter 'A' and the Scribner seal at the copyright page. Tight and VG (offsetting at the pastedowns and endpapers, small newspaper clip above Hoover's inscription) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine crown and along the top-edge.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. America's First Crusade. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 81pp. A very good copy inscribed by Hoover to John E Kelly. Dust jacket has closed tears and is spotted on the front cover. Book deals with Hoover's role in the First World War aftermath. Inscribed By Author
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, viii, 81pp. Light gray cloth, title printed in blue on spine and front cover. First edition with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Solid text block, light glue remnants to rear cover. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, $1.25 retail price on front flap, light wear, foxing to top edge, short closed tear to bottom of spine, bright illustrations. (Tracey, 7) Signed by President Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend H. Preston Wolfe from Herbert Hoover and A Happy New Year (anyway)." A scarce first edition with a nice dust jacket. The recipient of this copy, Harry Preston Wolfe (1873-1946), was an American businessman and banker. Wolfe helped found the Wear-U-Well Corporation, BancOhio Corporation, and Agriculture Lands, Inc. to support scientific farm research.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert.. America's First Crusade.. Charles Scribner's Sons., New York., 1942.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed to Eugene Kinkead and signed by the author on the ffep. Kinkead was a staff writer and editor at The New Yorker magazine. weight: 0.7 lb. Very good, in a good dust jacket with material missing from the spine ends and the lower corner. $1.25 price on dust jacket flap. Portrait frontis. 21x14 cm. viii, 81 pp.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Hoover, Herbert. America's First Crusade. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, viii, 81pp. Light gray cloth, title printed in blue on spine and front cover. First edition with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Publisher's near fine dust jacket with $1.25 retail price on front flap, light wear and chipping along top edge, bright illustrations and vibrant blue coloring. (Tracey, 7) Signed by President Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend Elizabeth Hanna from Herbert Hoover." A scarce first edition with an exceptional dust jacket. The recipient of this book was Elizabeth Hanna Seward (1920-1998), daughter of Richard W. Hanna, a friend of Herbert Hoover and retired executive at Standard Oil. Elizabeth was an avid sportswoman, who bonded with the former president in the 1930s before attending Stanford University. She married John C. Seward in 1957. Seward was an architect and a descendant of William H. Seward, President Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State. Elizabeth died in 1998.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, viii, 295pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. In publisher's first edition dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, a near fine example, with only minimal wear along the spine. (Tracey, 8) Includes laid-in comment leaflet from the publisher, which we have never seen before. Signed by former President Hoover on the front free endpaper: "To E.E. Lincoln, With the Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover + Hugh Gibson." Edmond E. Lincoln (1888-1958), a Rhodes scholar from Ohio, was a respected economist. He taught at Harvard University, where he developed a reputation as a writer in the field of business economics. His writing was often critical of the federal spending of the Roosevelt years, which likely drew the attention of President Hoover. In the private sector he worked as an economist for DuPont Company.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.