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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Octavo. xii, 496 pages. Illustrated. blue cloth hardcover with title on the spine. No dust jacket. Light soiling to the blue cloth. Moderate scattered foxing to the preliminary pages and rear end sheets including the frontispiece portrait photograph of Hoover. Signed on the right front flyleaf by the author.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: 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).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Herbert Hoover. The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 1874-1920: Years of Adventure. Macmillan, 1951.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Inscribed to his longtime friends Ferne and Albert Mattei on the front endpaper. In very worn and tattered dust jacket.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: A Wonderful Association - Each Volume Inscribed to Ida Koverman She helped to lead the vanguard that won the White House for Herbert Hoover in 1928 HOOVER, Herbert. The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover. Years of Adventure 1874-1920 [&] The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933 [&] The Great Depression 1929-1941. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951, 1952 & 1952. Each volume inscribed on front free endpaper "To my good friend Ida Koverman from Herbert Hoover. Second impression of volume 1, first editions of volumes 2 & 3. Three octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 232 x 155 mm.). xii, 496; xiv, 405, [1, blank]; xvi, 503, [1, blank] pp. The three volumes containing 26 black & white photogravure plates. Publishers blue cloth, front covers with signature in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers. Original dust jackets, a little worn, volumes 2 & 3 price-clipped. A near fine set in good dust jackets. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 -1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the U.S. secretary of commerce. Ida Koverman (1876-1954). One of the most powerful individuals in Hollywood was not a studio head but the executive assistant to Louis B. Mayer of MGM. Ida began her career in the jewelry business and became an executive in the New York City offices of Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. Here she had her early encounters with Herbert Hoover. Always active in Republican politics, she worked as executive secretary for the presidential campaigns of Calvin Coolidge in 1924 and Herbert Hoover in 1928.Koverman had a steady correspondence with Hoover sometimes asking for favors for Hollywood stars and other times using him to advance certain Republican candidates.After moving to California, Ida Koverman worked as the executive secretary of the Los Angeles County Central Committee of the state Republican Party. Working alongside engineer-entrepreneur Ralph Arnold, and allying with like-minded women leaders, she helped to lead the vanguard that won the White House for Herbert Hoover in 1928.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3200.00 + shipping
Description: First editions of each volume in Hooverâs memoirs. Octavo, 3 volumes, illustrated. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Each are near fine in near fine dust jackets. Includes: Volume One: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941. Includes an original photograph of Hoover with his Belgian shepherd King Tut. An exceptional set, uncommon signed and in the first printing. "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).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.