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First edition, First printing, Association Copy Inscribed: To Jake Seidenberg With every good wish for the years ahead from Dick Nixon Book is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket with a number of tears and small pieces missing at top and bottom of spine. Small pieces missing on front at top near authors name (see pictures). Clean text. Unclipped ($5.95). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.(Note: Seidenberg served in the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford Administrations. He served as the Executive Director of the President's Committee on Government Contracts, appointed by Eisenhower. Vice President Nixon was the Chairman of the Committee. Seidenberg later served as Chairman of he Federal Services Impasses Panel, which settled deadlocks in federal labor negotiations.)Nixon's first book was the result of encouragement from President Kennedy-- who Nixon visited in The White House only months after Nixon was defeated by Kennedy in the 1960 election--and said that a book would… Read More

Inscribed on half title page: To Dan, Thanks for your support & friendship. Haynes Johnson May 19, 1994Clean Text. Price unclipped ($24.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition. Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1966, for his coverage of the civil rights crisis in Selma, Alabama. The award marked the first time in Pulitzer Prize history that a father and son both received awards for reporting; his father, Malcolm Johnson, won in 1949 for the New York Sun series, "Crime on the Waterfront," which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film, On the Waterfront.

Beautifully inscribed on title page: Best wishes to Daniel Moll W.C. Westmoreland Nov. 1994Laid in is original letter form owner requesting autograph. Handwritten note at bottom: I am pleased to comply with your request. W.C. Westmoreland Clean text. Unclipped price ($12.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was a United States Army general, most notably commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.
Westmoreland adopted a strategy of attrition against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, attempting to drain them of manpower and supplies. He also made use of the United States' edge in artillery and air power, both in tactical confrontations and in relentless strategic bombing of North Vietnam. Nevertheless, public support for the war eventually diminished, especially after the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive… Read More

Signed on front end paper: Henry W. Clune Book is also signed on last page as part of limited issue run #229 of 1000 (see picture). Clean text. Price unclipped ($20.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition. Henry W. Clune (February 8, 1890 – October 9, 1995 was an American writer. A well-known journalist for the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in Rochester, New York, his column "Seen and Heard" was published in that paper for 55 years. He also penned 14 books; including six novels.
From a 1990 Review in the Los Angeles Times...The best of "Souvenir's" seven stories are portraits of people adrift in a world no longer theirs. The dowager queen of Rochester presides over an emptying salon; an octogenarian makes an eye-opening visit to a porno theater; an ex-con discovers that his daughter is irretrievably lost to him. Clune writes of the dowager: "It was the past in which she lived; the future had no meaning for her." Nor, for… Read More

Ronald Reagan Bookplate attached first free end page inscribed: To Daniel Moll With best wishes, Ronald Reagan Clean Text. Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.

Boldly inscribed on first page: For Joan Gaffney with best wishes, Herb BlockClean text. Price unclipped ($7.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades Herb Block, known as Herblock, won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors.

Signed on the first page (see picture): Will Durant Clean text. No dust jacket. Good condition with tear to top 1/4 inch of cloth board at top of spine. This book has been considered ground-breaking work that helped to popularize philosophy. The Story of Philosophy originated as a series of Little Blue Books (educational pamphlets which were aimed at workers) and because it was so popular, it was republished as a hardcover book by Simon & Schuster in 1926 and became a bestseller, giving the Durants the financial independence that allowed them to travel the world several times and spend four decades writing The Story of Civilization. From Perlego...A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey— The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this… Read More