SIGNED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, FIRST EDITION OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WRITTEN WHILE VICE PRESIDENT
BUSH, George [H. W.] and GOLD, Victor. Looking Forward. New York: Doubleday, 1987. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. $1200.
Signed limited first edition of President George H.W. Bush's autobiography, written while he served as Reagan’s Vice President, one of an unknown number of copies "specially produced for friends of the author and the publisher."
Looking Forward, the first autobiography written by a Vice President while still in office, was published the year before the election of George Herbert Bush as America's 41st President, and was co-authored with preeminent Washington journalist and political adviser Victor Gold while Bush was Ronald Reagan's Vice President. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. With 16 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Fine condition.