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Large thin octavo (7" x 10-1/8") profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. SIGNED on the title page by three Presidents--Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Jimmy Carter--and by six First Ladies--Jacqueline Kennedy, Bess Truman, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, and Rosalyn Carter. A one-of-a-kind grouping of White House residents spanning 35 years. Book rubbed and bumped at corners; dustwrapper with some soiling, a small chip at the base of the spine, and mild edgewear.

THE WHITE HOUSE: AN HISTORIC GUIDE
CARTER, Jimmy/Rosalyn; EISENHOWER, Mamie; FORD, Gerald/Betty; JOHNSON, Lady Bird; KENNEDY, Jackie; NIXON, Dick; TRUMAN, Bess
Washington: White House Historical Assoc, 1963. Large thin octavo (7" x 10-1/8") profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. SIGNED on the title page by three.. more
Price: $3,000.00

Hayden's inspiring collection of verse featuring symbolic portraits of fabled revolutionary Crispus Attucks, Amistad mutineer Joseph Cinque, Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass. Hayden would be remembered, poet Michael Harper contended, as the first African-American lyricist "of perfect pitch" and as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, a position held during the first two years of Jimmy Carter's presidency. In 1985, this position became the Poet Laureate, thus making Hayden the first African American to serve as Poet Laureate of the United States. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet to the President and the First Lady on the title page: "For Jimmy/and Rosalynn/with admiration/and the hope/that all their endless endeavors/will be blessed--/Bob." A remarkable association copy from the library of a President.

ANGLE OF ASCENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Inscribed to President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter
HAYDEN, Robert
New York: Liveright, (1975). Hayden's inspiring collection of verse featuring symbolic portraits of fabled revolutionary Crispus Attucks, Amistad mutineer Joseph Cinque, Malcolm X, Sojourner.. more
Price: $1,500.00

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