EMBASSY ROW; THE LIFE & TIMES OF DIPLOMATIC WASHINGTON.

Miller, Hope Ridings,1905-2005. Maryon Pittman Allen, 1925-2018 (previous owner).

ISBN 10: 0030684307 / ISBN 13: 9780030684302

Published by New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [February] 1969., 1969

About this Item

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [10], 286 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with some bumping/creasing near edges; several vertical furrows to front and rear panel's clear surface laminate; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right and February 1969 date code at bottom right. Black and yellow cloth; vibrant gilt stamped lettering to spine. Toning to text block edges; deckle fore-edge. Author's near full page ten-line ink inscription on half-title page: "For Maryon Allen . . . Hope Ridings Miller August 15, 1969 Washington, D.C." Toning to pages 76-77 from laid-in newspaper clippings. Laid-in between pages 72-73 is publisher-supplied b/w publicity photo print of Hope Ridings Miller with President Lyndon B. Johnson and entourage along with two single-side stapled sheets from Holt, Rinehart promoting the book. Top fore-edge corners of pages 5-10 creased from fold-downs with ink underlining and margin marks - no other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and leaves otherwise appear to be clean. Binding is firm. Book was acquired directly from the estate of Maryon Pittman Allen (1925-2018) who, at the time of the inscription, was the wife of United States Senator from Alabama James Browning Allen (1912-1978) who was in office from January 3, 1969 to June 1, 1978. James Allen passed away from a heart attack and was succeeded by Maryon Allen who was appointed by Alabama Governor George Wallace thereupon holding the office from June 8, 1978 to November 7, 1978 but thereafter losing a special election. After leaving the Senate Maryon Allen worked at The Washington Post as a columnist, the same institution which had employed author Hope Ridings Miller as society editor from 1938 to 1944. ISBN 0030684307.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EMBASSY ROW; THE LIFE & TIMES OF DIPLOMATIC WASHINGTON.
• Publisher: New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [February] 1969.
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030684307
• ISBN 13: 9780030684302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Regional

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Synopsis

Aimable, anecdotal history and gossip about Presidents, parties, embassies and ambassadors, from the days of John Adams, with only four foreign missions nudging the seat of government, to the near one-hundred establishments of today. The delicate, demanding game of protocol, which Jefferson was apt to destroy with a flip of a carpet slipper, requires an enormous crew attached to the State Department and some of the more spectacular trials are outlined here from the agonies of an unmerry Ambassador Merry during the Republic years, to LBJ's famous lengthy stay at Mme. Nehru's dinner. Details of planning, parties, ceremonial arrivals, extravagant entertainment, chatty chronologies of personalities, and doings at the Russian, British and French embassies in war and peace, round out the guided tour for the awed onlooker.