Author: STEVENSON, Adlai E.
Title: Call to Greatness
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 110pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket typically slightly edgeworn, with a touch of rubbing. A tight and quite nice first edition of these three political essays -- "A Survey of a Troubled World," proclaims the jacket front panel, "and Heartening Testimony on Democracy's Power to Survive!" -- first delivered at Harvard University as a lecture in March 1954. This was one of the Stevenson family copies and comes from the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .
Keywords: Americana
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Title: Call to Greatness
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 110pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket typically slightly edgeworn, with a touch of rubbing. A tight and quite nice first edition of these three political essays -- "A Survey of a Troubled World," proclaims the jacket front panel, "and Heartening Testimony on Democracy's Power to Survive!" -- first delivered at Harvard University as a lecture in March 1954. This was one of the Stevenson family copies and comes from the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .
Keywords: Americana
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47528
- Book number: 47528
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