THE HERBERT WALTERS STORY. INSCRIBED by Senator Walters.

Publisher's textured blue cloth with faded spine and upper board lettering, octavo, pp. 117 plus 39 page Appendix plus colophon. Black and white illustrations. This unique copy is from the personal library of Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame columnist Bert Vincent and is INSCRIBED to him and his wife by Senator Herbert Walters in the year of publication. Taped onto the front and rear pastedowns are newspaper notices of the death of Senator Walters in 1973. Additionally, taped onto the free front endpaper verso is a cordial letter, folded, to Bert Vincent from Senator Walters's office in Morristown, dated November 4th, 1964, inviting Vincent to a "Welcome Home Reception" for the Senator to be held November 17th of that year at the Talley-Ward building in Morristown. Still further, laid into the book on page 23, is a handwritten note card with a short commentary regarding the possible murder in 1861 of Senator Walters's grandfather, Lawson D. Franklin, by an old and disgruntled Negro house slave, who is described on that page as "more or less of a practical nurse" with a considerable knowledge of herbs and poisons, and it is implied that she may have poisoned the widower Franklin slowly over time. The upper board fore-edge of the book protrudes slightly beyond the lower board fore-edge, as in an overbite, otherwise GOOD condition with faint old spots of discoloration on the boards. There is no dust jacket.