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HOOVER, Herbert. On Growing Up. Letters to American Boys & ...

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HOOVER, Herbert. On Growing Up. Letters to American Boys & Girls Including ?The Uncommon Man? and Other Selections. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1962. 8vo. 160 pp. Publisher?s full navy-blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt, publisher?s unclipped (?$3.50?) dust jacket (cloth spine a bit sunned, some light rubbing, soiling to cloth; jacket rubbed, lightly worn and toned, with a few short marginal tears). Very good. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER ON THE HALF-TITLE: ?To Albert Sperison The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover?. Laid-in is a typed letter signed by William Nichols, an editor of This Week Magazine, addressed to Sperison, gifting him this book and thanking him for lending them unnamed books. Measurements: 8 x 7 x 1?.