"THIS BOOK IS A CRI DE COEUR": THE REAL WAR, INSCRIBED BY PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
NIXON, Richard. The Real War. (New York): Warner, (1980). Octavo, original red cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $900.
First trade edition, first printing, inscribed by President Nixon, "To N— and G— O'Sullivan With best wishes from Richard Nixon."
"This is a struggle of titans," Nixon writes of America's engagement in the Cold War, "the like of which the world has never seen." In Real War, Nixon calls "on the United States to mobilize its military, economic and intellectual powers against the Soviet Union" (New York Times). "First Printing: May 1980" on copyright page. Published in the same year as the signed limited edition of 2500 copies and a signed deluxe limited edition of unknown limitation.
Book fine, faintest soiling to bright about-fine dust jacket.