The Memoirs of Hebert Hoover: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941: Three Volume Complete Set.

HOOVER, Herbert.

Item Number: 3939

New York: MacMillan, 1951-1952..

First editions of each volume in the Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, 3 volumes. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover as follows, “To my good friend Irene Kuhn from Herbert Hoover.” Irene Kuhn was an author, journalist and radio broadcaster. Kuhn was asked to read the news on the air, became the first person, male or female, to be heard by radio in China. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Laid in is a Western Union Telegram regarding the funeral service of President Hoover, from Herbert and Allan Hoover. Includes: Volume One: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941. An exceptional set, uncommon signed and inscribed and in the first printing.

"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).