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

HOOVER, Herbert.

Item Number: 100899

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951.

First edition of the first volume of Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson.

"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).