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Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by de Camp without inscription on previous owner's unattached bookplate laid in at front. Octavo; 266pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black leatherette with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light rubbing at spine ends. Boards are square with a small bump at bottom front edge and at head and tail of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Ownership bookplate of Joseph W. Toti (1930-2020) of Roanoke, VA, a federal administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration and book collector, who for a time ran a rare books business under the name Judge of Mysteries.

San Francisco, CA: Inkshares, Inc., 2015. Second Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (197 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout). A particularly handsome photobiography filled with rarely seen images from the entirety of Churchill’s career, coupled with very well-chosen quotations. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page.

10/8/48. Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa. He was the first president born west of the Mississippi River and remains the only Iowan President. His father was a blacksmith in the town and a farm tool store owner.In 1948, the town invited him back to give his ""homecoming"" speech on his 74th birthday.  The speech was filled with his recollections of his childhood in rural Iowa, and was also a retrospective on his life.  ""Perhaps without immodesty I can claim to have had some experience in what American means. I have lived many kinds of American life,"" he said.  ""I have seen American in contrast with many nations and many races. My profession took me into many foreign lands under many kinds of government. I have worked with their great spiritual leaders and their great statesmen. I have worked in governments of free men, of tyrannies, of Socialists and of Communists. I have met with princes, kings, despots, and desperadoes.""And it was a vision of… Read More