[Rarebooks] FS: THE LYNDON JOHNSON STORY with an early full-page INSCRIPTION SIGNED by the future President

[Charles Agvent]

[JOHNSON, Lyndon B.] MOONEY, Booth . THE LYNDON JOHNSON STORY. New York: 
farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. With a foreword by U. 
S. Senator Lyndon Johnson. Illustrated with photographs. With a 
full-page INSCRIPTION SIGNED by the future President on the front 
endpaper: "To Tom Schmidt --/ with appreciation of his/friendship, good 
Counsel/and support --/from his Gillespie/County neighbor/Lyndon B 
Johnson/USS Texas/Aug 27, 1956." Books genuinely signed by LBJ are quite 
scarce, and most of those are copies of THE VANTAGE POINT, usually 
signed on a bookplate. Early titles such as this with contemporary 
inscriptions are uncommon on the market. Near Fine in a Very Good 
dustwrapper. (#015410)        $850.00

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