American Individualism (signed by President Hoover)
by HERBERT HOOVER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Printing. Signed by President Hoover on the front free endpaper. Very good plus. With scarce, first state d/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 2811000232
- ISBN 13
- 9782811000233
- Seller
-
Potomac, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Signed by President Hoover on the front free endpaper. Very good plus. With scarce, first state dustjacket, (with no review on front dj panel), in very good plus condition; small chip and crease on lower back cover and edge, and a bit toned. Near fine with publisher's original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Content fine, with pages and text bright, clean and unmarred.
A collection of political essays written by Hoover six years before he sought the presidency. A short but important book, arguing for American individualism, 'our most precious possession', and against governmental encroachment on personal freedom, initiative and enterprise' (Hazlitt). American Individualism was the future 31st president's first political book, and the first aimed at a popular audience, following only a book on mining and two reports to the US Food Administration. Hoover was at the time the third US Secretary of Commerce, then one of the most influential positions in the country. Hoover felt, with communist and socialist movements gaining ground worldwide, that the American individualist and free market position needed to be stated in a coherent form. The book, derived from an essay published in the magazine World's Work earlier the same year, helped to establish him as a political thinker of vision and as a firm upholder of the American free market system, an image which aided his election as President preceding the Depression in 1928, and perhaps too contributed to his defeat post-Depression in 1932. Hazlitt, Free Man's Library, p. 92. Octavo. A wonderful copy of this important work.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31648
- Title
- American Individualism (signed by President Hoover)
- Author
- HERBERT HOOVER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Printing. Signed by President Hoover on the front free endpaper. Very good plus. With scarce, first state d
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 2811000232
- ISBN 13
- 9782811000233
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
Terms of Sale
Grinning Cat Books
About the Seller
Grinning Cat Books
About Grinning Cat Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...