"THIS WRITTEN RECORD IS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH, IN PUBLISHER'S FULL MOROCCO

BUSH, George H.W. All the Best, George Bush. My Life in Letters and Other Writings. (New York): Scribner, (1999). Octavo, original full blue morocco gilt, raised bands, silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt, original slipcase. $1500.

Signed limited first edition, number 530 of 1000 copies signed by George H.W. Bush on the limitation page, with 16 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations, a fine signed copy in full morocco gilt.

President George H.W. Bush has led "one of the great American lives… the only president since John Adams to see his son also win the ultimate prize in American politics." To historian Jon Meacham, there "is nothing affected about Bush's vision of politics as a means to public service, and of public service as the highest of callings" (Destiny and Power, xvi-xvii). "In 1999, just as his son George W. Bush was launching a bid for the presidency, George H.W. Bush was launching a bestselling book, All the Best, which reintroduced Americans to the 41st president and his family… this written record is worth its weight in gold" (Washington Post). This volume of President George H.W. Bush's letters, which moves from his earliest days to his service in WWII, his marriage and presidency, remains one of his most intimate portraits. Throughout "the Bush voice is the same: decent, friendly, earnest, guileless" (New York Times). Also issued in a trade edition, no priority established.