The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1874-1920 Years of Adventure.

HOOVER, Herbert.

Item Number: 107669

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951.

First edition, seventh printing of the first volume in Hoover’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “The kind regards of Herbert Hoover to H.W. Lubow.” In near fine condition.

"It is doubtful if any other American public figure of comparable position has written any autobiographical fragment with anything like its unstudied and natural literary quality....His book is genuinely historic" (Newsweek).