[Rarebooks] FS: Herbert Hoover's AN AMERICAN EPIC, 4-volume set with 3 volumes SIGNED by Hoover

[Charles Agvent]

HOOVER, Herbert.AN AMERICAN EPIC. Four Volume Set, with the first 3 
volumes SIGNED.**Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1959-60-61-64. First 
Edition. All First Printings. Volume I: /INTRODUCTION &/ /THE RELIEF OF 
BELGIUM AND NORTHERN FRANCE 1914-1930/ (*/INSCRIBED/* and */SIGNED/*). 
Volume II: /FAMINE IN THE FORTY-FIVE NATIONS & ORGANIZATION BEHIND THE 
FRONT 1914-1923/ (*/INSCRIBED/* and */SIGNED/*). Volume III: /FAMINE IN 
FORTY-FIVE NATIONS & THE BATTLE ON THE FRONT LINES 1914-1923/ 
(*/INSCRIBED/* and */SIGNED/*). Volume IV: /INTRODUCTION, THE GUNS CEASE 
KILLING AND THE SAVING OF LIFE FROM FAMINE BEGINS 1939-1963/ (Hoover's 
business card in the book, no signature. Hoover died in 1964, the year 
this volume was published and likely no signed copies exist.). Each of 
the first three volumes is */INSCRIBED/* by Hoover "to my good friend 
Irene Kuhn." Also includes an unsigned note in an unknown hand to which 
a news story is attached regarding the death of Hoover's assistant 
Thomas Gregory in a car crash in 1933 and a broadside of Hoover's speech 
at the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Memorial Library on 1962 on his 
88th birthday. Offsetting from paperclip slightly affecting one 
inscription. Close to Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and quite uncommon 
to find signed as a complete set.(#016788)$2,500.00

An account of President Herbert Hoover's relief and rehabilitation work 
during and just after the first World War 1914 - 1930, and his role 
again during and after the Second World War 1939 - 1960.


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