Dog Days White House by Traphes Bryant, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. 1975. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; two bumps to top of rear board; small splash stain to textblock bottom. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($9.95); edge bumping to top edge and spine tail. Red paper over boards with gray cloth overlay on the spine with bright red lettering on the spine. 343 pp 8vo. The author was around the White House from 1951 as an electrician to today where he is the keeper of the presidential dogs. Associated with his duties he became privy to many to many revealing, off-the-record details about the Presidents and their families making this book an irreverent and gossipy account of the private lives of some public figures, and how their dogs have adapted to being in the limelight. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Illustrated by B/w Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. DJ flap is creased; 343 pages.

Hardback. Condition: VG-NF/ VG. 1st Edition. Owner's sign on FEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition - First Printing 1975. Red and gray boards. Red writing on spine. Illustrated with photos. 343 pages. Dust jacket has wear and is torn at the top of the spine. Interior of book is very clean - no writing or tears. Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. 6 1/4" x 9 3/8".

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st edition. Dog Days At The White House by Traphes Bryant. Published by Macmillan Publishing Co Inc, New York, NY, 1975. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Torn & Taped DJ. Slight edge wear to boards, corners bumped, overall content excellent. 343 Pgs. ISBN 002517990X. LCCN 75-6504. From Truman to Nixon, The outrageous memoirs of the presidential kennel keeper. By Thraphes Bryant with Frances Spatz Leighton. Mr. Bryant's initial job in 1951 was White House resident electrician, ''official'' keeper of the presidential pups was an added duty. He was in and around the executive mansion during the Sherman Adams vicuna coat affair, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the tragic death of JFK, and the trials of LBJ as he fought to maintain his image in the face of national criticism. As he went quietly about his daily duties, the author became privy to many revealing, off-the-record details about the Presidents and their families. Taken from his diary, this book is an irreverent and gossipy account of the private lives of some very public figures. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Description text copyright 2007 BooksForComfort. Item ID 13949. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. First Printing [stated]. 24 cm, v, [3], 343, [1] pages. Illus., index. Signed by Traphes Bryand and Inscribed by the co-author (Leighton). DJ has some wear, soiling, chip, and edge wear. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Inscribed to Emma Trenchi. This may by the same Emma Trenchi, 83, of Falls Church, Virginia, who's death in 2005 was noted in the Bulletin of the 1818 Society. Ms. Trenchi retired from the World Bank in 1985. Ms. Leighton wrote more than 30 books and countless articles on subjects such as the White House chef during the Eisenhower years, Jacqueline Kennedy's dressmaker and personal secretary, the man who ran the Senate restaurant, the man who worked as the House of Representatives doorkeeper for 42 years (William "Fishbait" Miller) and the dogs who have occupied the White House. What makes this book worth collecting is not the canine dogs described in this book but the human female kinds of dogs, the women who slept with the presidents who were not necessarily the wives. This book was the first to reveal numerous presidential affairs. It was the first to report that President Kennedy had an insatiable appetite for women. It was the original source for a story found on page 38 that goes: Jacqueline was in the presidential bed in the White House bedroom, when she discovered a woman's panties in between the sheets. She held up the panties she had found with two fingers in much the same way that she would hold up a dead mouse and she said to the president, "Would you please find out whose these are, because they are not my size?" It is a fact that every president in more than one hundred years has had a dog, with the exception of President Clinton, who had a cat, although even Clinton did finally get a dog near the end of his term. Not all of these presidents were dog lovers. In some cases, the President obviously got a dog just to get the Dog Lover's Vote. President Obama must have read this book, because when he was elected to office, he knew that the first thing he had to do was get a dog. This book starts with the punch line to a joke: "This book is dedicated to man's best friend - women".