Six Crises, Richard M. Nixon
First edition, first printing of Nixon's first book, inscribed by Nixon to the flyleaf – "To Anne Currier / a 'Jeffersonian Democrat' / from Dick Nixon." An interesting association copy as Anne Currier was a descendant of Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888), partner of James Merrit Ives. Laid in is a telegram from Nixon to Currier emphasizing the importance of voting in the upcoming election. Six Crises recounts Nixon's role in six major political situations and he wrote the book in response to John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize–winning Profiles in Courage, which had greatly improved Kennedy's public image.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1962. Publisher's original grey cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt over blue label, jacket is a book club edition jacket; pp. xvi, [2], 460. An about near fine copy in a very good or better, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy, light bumping to corners and softening to spine tips. Internally clean. Jacket shows light shelfwear and rubbing with some scuffs to the back panel. Protected in archival mylar.