Ronnie and Nancy: A Very Special Love Story.

ADLER, Bill. [Ronald and Nancy Reagan].

Item Number: 114871

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1985.

First edition of Adler’s account of one of America’s great romances, inscribed by Ronald Reagan as President and First Lady Nancy Reagan. Octavo, original half-cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ronald and signed by Nancy Reagan on the half-title page, “To Preston Long – with our appreciation and warmest friendship. Nancy & Ronald Reagan Jan. 27 1986.” The recipient, Preston H. Long, was a supporter of Reagan and was appointed by Reagan as a Member of the American Battle Monuments Commission in July of the year the present volume was inscribed. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James K. Davis. Jacket photograph by Harry Benson. Examples of this title signed by the Reagan’s are particularly uncommon.

Nancy Davis was a Hollywood actress with ten movies to her credit in 1949 when she met Ronald Reagan, a handsome veteran actor. She said of their first meeting: "I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close." From the very start of their relationship, the Reagan's were an openly affectionate couple, and upon entering the political arena, their bond grew stronger. Bill Adler's Ronnie and Nancy: A Very Special Love Story is an intimate, warm portrait of one of the most romantic American couples, telling in great detail how Ronnie and Nancy became American's most watched and most loved First Couple.