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Hoover, Herbert, and Hugh Gibson. The Problems of Lasting Peace. N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth printing. VG+/VG-: Book shows almost no wear; unclipped ($2.00) DJ shows a bit of edgewear; spine slightly toned. Inscribed by co-authors Hoover and Gibson on front endpaper to Raymond W. Bellamy of the U.S. Office of War Information. Laid in is a "compliments of" card from Lawrence Richey, who was a secretary to President Hoover; after his presidency, Richey worked at the Hoover War Library arranging and describing Hoover's Commerce and presidential papers. 295 pages. U.S. buyers, contact me for a possible discount!
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION in light blue cloth with dark blue dust jacket, inscribed to George Clifford Good by President Herbert Hoover on the flyleaf, 295pp. Very Good with toning on front endpapers (probably a newspaer clipping had been laid in; old small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. Very Good dust jacket that is not price-clipped and is in mylar protection; light chipping at extremities. Hoover wrote the book in 1942 - at the start of WWII. He stated "the purpose of this war, the most terrible of three centuries, is to make a lasting Peace. We must first win the war. But we will not win last peace unless we prepare for it. And we can prepare only by full and free public discussion, by teh cold surgery of analysis." A monumental work. The inscription too is very interesting. George Clifford Good, with the start of WWII, increased his academic load to graduate early from Stanford, then enlisted and served in the Navy as an officer. He saw action in the battle of Okinawa. A great collectible with a scarce signature by Hoover.
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
HOOVER, Herbert and GIBSON, Hugh. The Problems of Lasting Peace. Doubleday, Garden City, 1942.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., 295 pages, blue cloth (cloth faded with small stain on bottom of front cover, discoloration from news clipping on pages 52 and 53, light damp stains on lower corners of pages 93-162. New York; Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. First edition. Fair. Presentation on the front flyleaf inscribed by Hoover and signed by Gibson: "To our Good Friend Robert E. MacAlarney from Herbert Hoover" "& Hugh Gibson."
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed on the first free end paper: "To Werner W. Schroeder with the Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover". Gilt lettering on blue covers in a blue dust jacket. 8vo, 295pp. Dust jacket edge & corners torn.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, 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.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, blue cloth lettered in gilt; slightly sunned spine. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Philip C. Jessup, with the kind regards of Herbert Hoover," additionally signed by Hugh Gibson, on the front free endpaper. ---- Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He also served as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. Meanwhile, at the request of President Truman, Herbert Hoover made several relief trips, supported the Marshall Plan, and called for the rehabilitation of Germany and Japan, positions also advocated by Jessup. A significant antiwar publication with a distinguished provenance.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second printing (as per the jacket). 295pp. About fine in very good internally tape repaired dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears. Inscribed by Hoover to Norman Vincent Peale, author of *The Power of Positive Thinking*: "To Dr. Norman V. Peale, With the Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.