Description
First edition of Present at the Creation, signed by former Secretary of State, Dean Acheson.
Octavo, xiv, [4], 798 pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page, with a full number line. No page markings or notes. In publisher’s dust jacket, $15.00 retail price on front flap, short closed tear on back panel, faint sunning to spine, a bright example.
Signed on the front free endpaper by Dean Acheson, with Kroch’s & Brentano’s The First Edition Circle bookmark laid in.
Dean Acheson (1893-1971) served as Secretary of State for President Harry S. Truman. He was instrumental in defining foreign policy for the United States during the Cold War. Acheson’s memoir, Present at the Creation, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1970.
