New York: William Morrow & Company, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and mustard paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 364pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition of this family biography profiling the "First Family of American Conservatism" and bearing a choice autograph addition: Tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page -- an extra-illustrated frontispiece, if you will -- is a heavy stock 5" X 7" mat finish Photograph Signed of its most famed member, William F. Buckley. Near fine. On the blank right margin of an informal image of sweater-clad Buckley chatting on the phone, he boldly pens "For Terrence Kocsett / With Cordial / Regards / W. F. Buckley" in black fineline. Last name faintly smudged. Buckley (1925-2008) was the intellectual conservative author and commentator and long-time host of "Firing Line" (1966-99).

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Bookseller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45860
Title: The Buckleys: A Family Examined
Author: MARKMANN, Charles Lam
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0688001521
ISBN 13: 9780688001520
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1973
Bookseller catalogs: Books; Literary Biography;

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