1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Presidents and the People, 1929-1959 by Johnson, Walter - 1960

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by Author. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Published in stated First Edition state by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1960, and signed at the half-title. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, sunning, chipping, and laid in is a promotional note from Kroch's & Brentano regarding the presumed book-reading and -signing. A fine and probing social history of the American presidency since 1929, looking specifically at the administrations of Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x + 390 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.