Fine Binding

1944

Exploration & Travel

Signed

ONE WORLD: The Photographic Album Edition

By Wendell Willkie, Signed Limited Edition

Willkie, Wendell L. One World: The Photographic Album Edition. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Brown leather spine with gilt lettering and pictorial covers. In a black linen clamshell case stamped in gilt on the front. Signed by the author, limited edition, this copy #547 of 1,500. Book near fine, tiny rub to corners, paper moderately aged-toned, and a little foxing to endpapers. Slipcase very good-, spine well sunned with a little wear at head and tail and OE” split to linen at tail. Case ligthly rubbed and gilt titling to front worn.

Willkie (1892-1944) is best known as the Republican nominee for President in 1940. He was in some ways the Obama of his time, an outsider with broad popular support. Despite receiving a record number of votes for a Republican, however, he lost in a landslide to Franklin Roosevelt. Zealously committed to the idea of peace, he became an ally of Roosevelt’s thereafter, traveling on his behalf to the USSR, China, and other parts of the world, the travels he writes about in “One World,” which was essentially his call for support of an international peacekeeping effort. In a world weary of war, the volume was extremely popular when first published in 1943, selling millions of trade copies, and a surprising choice for LEC, which usually focused on literature, rather than contemporary issues, bespeaking its instant status as a classic.A handsome, early signed LEC with political clout!

Categories: History, IIllustration/Photography, Signed, Americana

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