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Washington DC: Gridiron Club, 1985. First printing. Cloth. Near Fine. No DJ, as Issued. The Gridiron Club, founded in 1885, is Washington's oldest and most prestigious journalistic organization. Its 65 active members represent major newspapers, news services, news magazines and broadcast networks. Since the days of Benjamin Harrison, it has entertained presidents and major figures from politics, the armed services, diplomacy, industry and the arts at its annual spring dinner. The club's first musical director was John Philip Sousa, and its dinner traditionally features the U.S. Marine Band, along with satirical musical skits by the members and frank off-the-record remarks by the President and representatives of each political party. As a historian wrote 87 years ago: "The club holds up the mirror to those who sit in the seats of the mighty and shows them, with a touch of humor and satire, that even in the national and international complications which surround them there is a… Read More

New York: Norton, 2008. First edition. Boards. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo, 428 pp., illus. Light wear to head of spine, corners of boards lightly bumped, a couple of small smudges to page edges, light edgewear to jacket.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Second printing. Cloth. Good in Good Dust Jacket. 247 pp., color and b/w plates. Includes photographs by Irving Penn and others. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, edges of boards faded, smudge to fore-edge and front free endpaper, page corners bumped. Jacket sunned, handled, edgeworn, with numerous chips and tears.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1988. First edition. Boards. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo, 378 pp., illus. Inscribed and signed by author and with one-page ALS laid in. Los Angeles Times writer. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, page edges tanned, top edge a bit dusty. Jacket sunned at spine and lightly edgeworn.

New York: Summit Books, 1990. First edition. Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo, 315 pp. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, page edges a bit tanned. Jacket handled, lightly soiled, edgeworn, with several small chips.