Back to Beginnings: Adlai E. Stevenson and North Carolina
by IVES, Elizabeth S., and RAGAN, Sam
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Charlotte, NC: Heritage Printers, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Wide 12mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 56pp, (4pp). Numerous illustrations, genealogical chart. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this account of the Tar Heel background of the Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate (1900-65) -- and a choice presentation copy, as the half-title page is handsomely inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink " For Adlai / from his / Aunt Buffie / Christmas 1969." Elizabeth "Buffie" Stevenson Ives (1898-1994) was the sole sibling of the governor, who named his eldest child after himself -- Ives's nephew was Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), who served as U.S. senator from Illinois (1970-81). A better association copy could hardly be imagined.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48652
- Title
- Back to Beginnings: Adlai E. Stevenson and North Carolina
- Author
- IVES, Elizabeth S., and RAGAN, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heritage Printers, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Charlotte, NC
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Biography;
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