Carter Glass Biography by Smith Rixey Beasley Norman (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. No dust jacket. Cloth boards have edge wear, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine, spine slightly sunned. Small bent page corners. Price in pencil inside front cover. No writing in text.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Blue cloth covers with gold lettering on spine which is slightly faded. Very light soiling to covers. Previous owners book plate is pasted to the inside front cover. Inside front hinge is cracked towards the bottom of the hinge. Still firmly attached. Light foxing and yellowing to inside front and back covers including the hinge area. Text is yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Illustrated dj is in a protective mylar cover with multiple small tears, chips and creasing to all edges, corners and spine ends. Moderate soiling to edges. Light shelf wear and soiling to covers and spine. Co-written by Rixey Smith who was the secretary to Senator Glass since 1922 and Norman Beasley who is a "experienced and able author". They have combined to "write an exciting and triumphant life of a man was acclaimed on his 80th birthday as one of the great public servants of his age or any other age." There is a gift inscription by Carter Glass and a separate inscription by Rixey Smith on the ffep. There is also a letter written by Carter on United States Senate stationary dated January 5, 1924 congratulating the previous owner on the release of their book The Cathedral Chorister which is tipped into the 1/2 title page. The letter is yellowed due to age, otherwise clean and unmarked. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Signed and affectionately inscribed by Carter Glass upon front free endpaper. "Here is a character composed of truth, sincerity and courage. He hates deceit and detests a lie. But this Jeffersonian Democrat possesses a rarer integrity which we call intellectual integrity. Appointed to the Banking and Currency Committee in 1904, the supreme opportunity soon came to him to be the chief architect of the Federal Reserve System. He became the great post-WWI Secretary of the treasury and won Woodrow Wilson's intimacy, trust and praise. He came to the Senate and is the most outstanding Senator Virginia has ever contributed to the nation's chief deliberative council." - Introduction. xv, [1], 519 pages. Index. Four black and white plates. Unmarked with average wear to publisher's navy blue cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. Photocopy of New York Times book review, dated May 28, 1939, laid-in. A sound signed copy of the life story of this highly-influential Virginian. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed.