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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. vi, 186 pages. Illustrations (some with color). Index. Photo Credits. Approximately 8.25 and 11.25 inches. Inscribed by Sidey on half-title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Hugh Sidey (September 3, 1927 - November 21, 2005) was an American journalist who worked for Life magazine starting in 1955, then moved on to Time magazine in 1957. He covered several Presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton, and was author of the book Time Hugh Sidey's Profiles of the Presidents. He also hosted the PBS series The American Presidents. Sidey served as president of the board of directors of the White House Historical Association from 1998 to 2001, during the White House's bicentenary celebration. Former president George H. W. Bush delivered a eulogy at Sidey's funeral. Inscribed to Nicholas Christopher, believed to be the Nicholas Christopher (born 1951) who is an American novelist, poet and critic, the author of sixteen books: six novels, eight volumes of poetry, a critical study of film noir, and a novel for children. Christopher graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in English Literature. After traveling extensively abroad, he returned to New York and began publishing his work. He taught at New York University and Yale before receiving an appointment as a professor on the permanent faculty of the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. From the 1970s, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. For 43 years, Hugh Sidey has been reporting on the White House for Time, Inc. His lively column, The Presidency, has been featured in Time magazine during the past seven administrations. Nobody understands the complex interplay of personality and power in the Oval Office better than he. Nobody writes about it with as much vitality and depth of experience. Lavishly illustrated with photographs from Time magazine's exceptional archives, this is a bracing and intimate view of our last eleven presidents, from FDR to Bill Clinton. At the heart of the book is a fresh profile of each man, drawn from Sidey's unparalleled access to the inner workings of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Vintage columns, each with a new introduction, can be found here as well.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. World Publishing Company, New York. 1970. 400 pages. First edition, fourth printing. Signed, inscribed and dated by Jim Bouton, directly to the front endpaper. Laid-in is a publisher's photograph of Jim Bouton for his 1971 book, I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. Soiling to turquoise cloth panels. Original DJ with price-clipped flap. DJ shows minor light soiling with a couple of shallow edge chips. Ball Four chronicles Bouton's 1969 baseball season spent with the Seattle Pilots and then the Houston Astros, following a late-season trade. Bouton also recounts his days with the New York Yankees, where he became a World Series champion (1962), was named an MLB All-Star (1963), and won both of his starts in the 1964 World Series. Ball Four is the only sports-themed book to make the New York Public Library's 1996 list of Books of the Century. It is also listed in Time magazine's 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. An early printing of the baseball classic, signed by Jim Bouton with related ephemera. VG+/VG. Signed by Author(s).

Framed. Condition: Fine. Gerard de Rose (illustrator). original. Painting by Gerard de Rose (1918-87) for the Time magazine cover depicting novelist "Vladimir Nabokov," dated May 23, 1969. The famous cover of the novelist at his peak bears a banner in the upper right reading: "THE NOVEL IS ALIVE / and Living in Antiterra." Titled in the upper left area: "Vladimir Nabokov / Sketch for Thime Magazine/ Montreaux Feb 1969." Oil on canvas (Unframed: 27.6" x 17.7" / 70.0 x 45.0 cm; Framed: 33.6" x 23.6" / 85.3 x 60.0 cm.). This is a rare, fine, and large oil painting on canvas SIGNED by the artist Gerard de Rose (1918-1987) of Vladimir Nabokov, the world-renowned Russian-American author and lepidopterist. De Rose painted this highly finished study from the life in Montreux, Switzerland. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1987) sat for this portrait in his Montreux hotel room in early February, 1969. Time magazine had commissioned De Rose to paint Nabokov for its February 23rd issue. This bright, lively painting was used for the final cover painting, which included additional background elements. The painting used for Time's cover is now housed in the U.S. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Gerard de Rose [with an accent on the final "e"] was the son of an emigree Russian professor of music and surgeon. The talented artist studied briefly at the Royal College of Art (1939) but from Dunkirk on wore the uniform of the Royal Engineers. After the war, de Rose returned to the Royal College of Art and became a lecturer. From 1958-67, he served as the head of the art faculty at Maidstone College of Art. In 1961, Gerard de Rose was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). Working mainly as a portraitist, he exhibited in numerous shows in Britain such as at the Royal Academy, Manchester and Alwin galleries, as well as at shows throughout the United States. (adapting Wiki.) Compared to the final Time cover that appeared a month later, this penultimate painting lacks the artist's inclusion of a few items associated with Nabokov. Those collage elements of cover art included two butterflies (one, a small "blue" Lycaena argiolus on Nabokov's shoulder: a species he made famous as a lepidoperist; the other a brown wood nymph above his head). The Time cover also depicted three Scrabble pieces labeled in Cyrillic Russian script to suggest Nabokov's love of words and gamesmanship. The cover also included a small tromp l'oeil sketch of Nabokov's mother "pinned to the wall" originally sketched by Léon Bakst in 1910; and two onion-domed cupulas of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow in the lower left. [Given the author's fascination with chess and recurrent use of games as metaphor, one assumes spatial factors may have prevented the artist from including other pictorial allusions to chess pieces.] The Time issue includes under "Books," a clever piece entitled "I Have Never Seen a More Lucid, More Lonely, Better Balanced Mad Mind Than Mine: Nabokov" by staffers who interviewed Nabokov at his apartment in Montreux. Another article about the novelist in the magazine was "Prospero's Progress," by Harry Levin, a Harvard professor of English who did much to advance Vladimir's career (dated Friday, May 23, 1969). A copy of the original Time magazine with Nabokov on its cover will be furnished to the purchaser of the painting. Provenance: Dominic Winter Book Auctions, South Cherney, Gloucestershire, England, January 28, 2010, lot 366; European dealer. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon request.

Condition: Very good. Magnificent TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, 3-hole punch on left side, folded twice, evidence of rusty paperclip on upper left, boldly signed in blue ink by MLK Jr. TOGETHER WITH: copy of 2-page letter from the recipient, Earl Loganill, farm labor activist of McPherson, Kansas, to Dr. King, dated Jan. 5, 1964. EXTRAORDINARILY POIGNANT AND IMPASSIONED SIGNED LETTER FROM MLK JR. TO ONE OF HIS SUPPORTERS, OCCASIONED ON BEING CHOSEN AS TIME MAGAZINE'S "MAN OF THE YEAR." THE RECIPIENT OF OUR LETTER WAS AN EMPHATIC EQUAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND NAACP MEMBER IN KANSAS, EARL LOGANBILL; THE LETTER HAS AN UNBROKEN PROVENANCE, AND HAS BEEN CHERISHED BY THE FAMILY SINCE IT WAS RECEIVED IN 1964. Crushed by letters of support, King drafted the present text on Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, and signed an unknown number of copies, many of the recipients treasuring the letter and King's signature, as here. The text of the letter reads: "Please accept my deep appreciation for your kind letter in reference to my being chosen by TIME magazine as its Man of the Year. It was very thoughtful of you to take the time to write to me in this connection, and I am deeply grateful for this expression of support. "I was pleased that TIME considered me for this traditional honor and was willing to make liberal use of its pages in an assessment of the Negro's constant struggle for full equality and human dignity. However, I must say that I sincerely feel that this particular recognition is not an honor to be enjoyed by me personally, but rather a tribute to the entire civil rights struggle and the millions of gallant people all over the nation who are working so untiringly to bring the American dream into reality. "The fact that time took such cognizance of the social revolution in which we are engaged is an indication that the conscience of America has been reached and that the old order which has embraced bigotry and discrimination must now yield to what we know to be right and just." [signature of Martin Luther King, Jr.] Being chosen as Time Magazine's 1963 Man of the Year was one of the most recognizable honors in America at this time. The announcement was made in the January 1964 issue of the magazine: King's countenance duly graced the now iconic cover, and the civil rights leader became the first African-American recipient of this honor. King had already been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. The profound message of the present letter is nothing short of inspirational, and reinforces his legacy, which is permanent. PROVENANCE: Earl Loganbill (1921-2004), by descent to -- his son Lorne Loganbill, from whom we acquired the present letter directly. MARKET COMPARABLES: The last copy of this letter that appeared on the market sold EIGHT YEARS ago at RR Auctions ($9,375 including buyer's premium). THE RECIPIENT OF THE PRESENT LETTER: Earl Loganbill was born into a poor Mennonite farming family in Central Missouri. Ever altruistic and idealistic, he spent his life trying to lift others by organizing farmer's co-ops, fighting for civil rights, encouraging non-violence, and generally taking up the various causes of disenfranchised and underprivileged persons of all types and races. In 1972, Loganbill founded a small weekly newspaper in Beloit, Kansas, outraged that another activist was prevented from buying a campaign ad in the local daily because he was a Democrat. LOGANBILL'S LETTER TO KING: He expresses his gratitude that King was chosen as Man of the Year, "an accomplishment of the past year and the increased recognition of your unique contribution to civil rights [which] will spur us on to a greater fulfillment of the good cause for which God himself is earnestly yearning." Longtime farm labor activist, Loganbill presents his idea of introducing the consumer cooperative movement in the civil rights struggle. "It seems to me that economics and the economic alternatives which suppressed peoples have a lot to do with the progress that can be made. I am wondering about the feasibility of using a type of boycott which has been quite successful in the mid-west among farmers. FULL TEXT OF THE LOGANBILL LETTER: Dear Dr. King, Congratulations on your fine accomplishments in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference! I am thankful for the honor bestowed upon you by Time magazine. Undoubtedly the accomplishments of the past year and the increased recognition of your unique contributions to civil rights will serve to spur us on to a greater fulfillment of the good cause for which God himself is earnestly yearning. I speak as one who has been interested in integration for the last 15 years or so. In 1948 I played a minor role in the integration of a swimming pool in Newton, Kansas. I belonged to a Kansas City unit of the NAACP where we lived for a while. I must confess that in recent years I have not been as active direct action programs as I should. I do follow with great interest all of the developments in the civil right movement and especially those that involve the non-violent approach. I would like to discuss an idea that what very likely is not new to you. I am wondering if there is a place for the consumer cooperative movement in the civil rights struggle? It seems to me that economies and the economic alternatives which suppressed peoples have a lot to do with the progress that can be made. I am wondering about the feasibility of using a type of boycott which has been successful in the mid-west among farmers. We have built a system of cooperatives which as yielded independence and freedom as related to economics. I know the problems are different among city dwellers but the principle is the same. Cooperatives afford an opportunity for self help. I don't mean to suggest that the idea should be used to set black against white but rather it is a tool to generate self-reliance and indi.