Ervin Sam 1896 (5 results)

x, 310 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; some scuffing as well as a few short tears and small chips at edges; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Black cloth with vibrant silver stamping to spine. Personal bookplate of book's original owners "Bob and Virginia Webber" on front pastedown; ink gift inscription from Mrs. R.C. Webber to "Mr. Barber" at top third of front free endpaper with long inscription re-gifting the book from Amzi Barber Jr. to [U.S. Senator] James B. Allen dated April 1975 at lower two-thirds of ffep; short tear at bottom fore-edge corner of pages 135-136; laid-in between pages 186-187 is Sunday, March 14, 1976 "The Washington Star" newspaper article "A Long Visit With a Country Lawyer" by Willie Morris. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. Biography of United States Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina who held that office from June 1954 to December 1974 and whose career overlapped with the book's inscribee James Allen, United States Senator from Alabama, who served from January 3, 1969 until his passing by heart attack on June 1, 1978. This book was acquired directly from the estate of Senator Allen's widow, Maryon Pittman Allen (1925-2018) who too served as U.S. Senator filling her husband's seat on an interim five month appointment by Governor George Wallace. ISBN 0253145406.…

This crusty long-time North Carolina senator (1954-74) became household-name famous for his memorable Watergate hearing participation. Full signature and "U.S.S." with date (1970 March 9) boldly penned in black ink on a special heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p. [Washington, DC]. Very good. Single discreet staple hole at upper left. With original envelope. Accompanied by a fine original glossy 9" X 7" news agency photograph dated 12 March1956 showing Ervin with three Southern senator bigshots, printed caption along bottom reading "Southern senators discuss the manifesto urging resistance to the Supreme Court decision on segregation which was read to the Senate today.". Near fine.…

unbound. Condition: near fine. Typed Letter Signed. 4to. 1 page, United States Senate, Washington D.C., September 12, 1973, written during the impasse when Richard Nixon refused to surrender the nine White House tapes, to future President of Brandeis University David Steinberg. In full: "Many thanks for inviting me to speak as the 1973-74 Brandeis Lecturer this year. While I appreciate this invitation very much, I am afraid that duties devolving upon me will prevent me from accepting any additional undertakings in the foreseeable future. Fine condition. United States Senator from North Carolina best remembered for chairing the U.S. Senate Watergate Hearings (1973 - 1974). The Senate Watergate Hearings literally made over-night stars out of certain politicians including Senators Sam Ervin, Fred Thompson, and Howard Baker. With their new-found fame each Senator discovered the immediate necessity of having to purchase an Autopen machine. This explains why anything authentically signed and dated during the actual hearings is very scarce.…

251:204 mm. With typed envelope.

4to. ¾ p. With typed envelope. To a Swedish collector: "This is just a note to thank you for the letter which you wrote me while I was visiting Sweden [.]".