[Rarebooks] FS: Ronald Reagan's Autobiography, Inscribed "Now I won't have any secrets to hide"

[Charles Agvent]

REAGAN, Ronald. AN AMERICAN LIFE. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990). 
First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Reagan on 17 November 1990 on the 
front endpaper: "Dear Jerry -- Now I wont [sic]/have any secrets to 
hide./Best Wishes & Regards./Ron/Ronald Reagan." Books genuinely signed 
by Reagan have become quite scarce and usually turn up with a signed 
bookplate rather than actually signed in the book. The Reagan 
Presidential Library is still selling copies with a bookplate signed by 
Reagan for $4,000. Rarely does one come across a copy with any kind of 
personal inscription. This copy bears the finest Reagan presentation we 
have encountered. One should also be aware that the market has been 
flooded with fake Reagan signatures in books sold on ebay where the 
great majority of "signed" Ronald Reagan books offered are forgeries. 
Laid into the book on a small piece of Nancy Reagan Foundation 
stationery is a brief note signed by a secretary: "Mrs. Reagan asked 
that I send along to you the enclosed photograph [not present]. She said 
it is not the pose she mentioned to you, but she hopes it's better than 
the one Mr. Di Salvo has." Fine in Fine dustwrapper with a superb 
presentation.                       $5,000.00	

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