INSCRIBED BY RONALD REAGAN

REAGAN, Ronald, HUBLER, Richard. Where's the Rest of Me? New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1965). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $4600.

First edition, review copy, boldly inscribed to a fellow California conservative, "To George Crocker With friendship and ever good wish. Sincerely, Ronald Reagan."

Reagan's first memoir coincided with his campaign for the governorship of California, which he won in 1966. Illustrated with six pages of photographs. The recipient of this copy, George Crocker, was dean of the Golden Gate University School of Law from 1934 to 1941. He was highly critical of the Roosevelt administration and the New Deal, and in 1959 published Roosevelt's Road to Russia, a negative account of Roosevelt's wartime policy. Laid into this copy is publisher's press release for Where's the Rest of Me?, a one-page biography of Reagan, and a publisher's letter to Crocker presenting the book and asking for copies of any review Crocker might write. With pencil annotations in a later hand. The dedication leaf, with "To Honey with Love," has had "Honey" crossed out and "Nancy" written in ink above it, presumably by Reagan.

Book fine, only very mild wear to spine ends of about-fine price-clipped dust jacket.